No longer pulls up lyrics for a song playing in the Music app – Genius: Song Lyrics Finder Review

That’s pretty much all I used this for, and somewhere in the last 6-12 months or so it stopped doing that, and I don’t see why in any changelog or configurable option. It used to automatically detect what was playing and ask if you wanted to see the lyrics. I’ve never changed any settings anywhere, so I’m assuming it’s either a bug or they silently removed the feature. I only used it for this, so it’s kind of useless now. It’s fairly laggy now also. I had tapped around trying to see what happened to the music detection thing, then moved onto other apps. A while later my music stopped playing and the red bar at the top for Genius came up, which was the music detection feature, because I guess I had clicked on that and forgotten. Unless something like this is relatively instantaneous it’s kind of useless as well, as oftentimes when you’re trying to figure out a song that’s playing you don’t have the 30 seconds or however long it takes for the app to load. And, clicking on the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy pulls up nothing, so that’s a thing too. To create an account you need to have read and agree with the ToS, and for all I know it could contain a contract for signing over my first born child, or state that I’d be billed a convenient $99.99/mo for use of their services while allowing them full access to the mic and camera for data-mining. So yeah, I guess I don’t need this anymore.
Review by Agentmith on Genius: Song Lyrics Finder.