how to prevent iphone auto play songs when earphone plugged in.

finally, someone else with this issue.

Again, it doesn't always happen ... but sometimes when I plug in my earphones to make a phone call, the ipod starts up automatically, with the first song in my library!

How to stop this from happening?!

i'm on this one, too. ***** to get somewhere and you battery is dead with no cord!

Same here, Had my iPhone 3G sitting on the night stand. I woke up in the middle of the night and thought I heard something. Turns out the Podcast that I was listening to before I went to sleep was playing.

Carter

Same problem, which is extremely inconvenient because I like to use my earphones to listen to Pandora while I work. Not every time, but most of the time I plug in my earphones, the iPod software starts playing the last song that was played. Stopping the music via iPod or pressing the Home button for 10 seconds to force quit iPod doesn't stop the music as it will just automatically start playing again. Sometimes if I'm lucky, plugging the earphones in very quickly avoids this problem -- but like I said, it's a cross my fingers and hope I get lucky kind of thing.

I'm using the newer 3G model, which I've had for only about a month. I did not have this problem with my old 2G iPhone.

Someone in another thread said it's a hardware fault and suggested exchanging the phone for a new one. Can anyone confirm this?

What I did to work around on it is to put the Ipod in a shorter playlist, maybe one song, then put repeat off, so if it plays it only plays one song, so my batter won't die. But after a while, it stopped auto-playing.

I was actually worried that somebody was manipulating my iphone!!! paranoid

Another problem I had with this iphone is it just turned off and cannot be powered on from the top, I had to google about pressing the power and the menu home key at the same time to power it on.

If this auto play is a HW problem, I should exchange my phone soon! Please confirm, anyone???

I'm having this exact problem - when I plug in my earphones, the iPhone starts playing the very first song, alphabetically speaking, in my playlist (as it happens, Richard Thompson's recording of "A-11," which is a great song, but I don't want to hear it every time I plug in my freaking headphones!)

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to stop this "now playing" phenomenon... but am glad to know I'm not alone.

Has anyone figured out an acceptable workaround?

Im here just to post that this happens to me on a daily basis. The only audio files i have stored on my iPod are podcasts. Usually I dont have time to listen to a podcast all the way through so i'll pause it and listen to it later.

With the iPhone (3G) 2.2.1 it will start playing by itself and lose my position on where I stopped on the podcast. =\

I hope someone is working on a fix for this.

My headphones that I have plugged in are JVC headphones. I don't use my iPhone earbuds unless I'm talking to someone on the phone, so I cant say that the issue exists or not with the pack-in earbuds.

I also have this problem with my iPhone 3G after updating to 2.2.1. It usually occurs when my earphones are plugged in. It would just automatically play one song even when I'm doing something like watching youtube videos or watching podcasts. It would also randomly pause, or skip a song which is quite annoying.

Is this caused by a hardware problem or is just from the updated firmaware?
I just hope theres a fix for this soon.

+1 with all above. Can't find the logic when it starts playing and when not. If it's been a few minutes since I listened last time it normally starts up with song 1 again. A "Start Playing - Where Left Off" option for Audio under the iPod settings would be nice. I normally start playing music with a double click of the home button when the screen is locked, feels almost like an unsupported method if you ask me considering how bad it works...

The iPod application remains active and in memory even after you seemingly quit it by pressing the home button.

To completely remove the iPod app from memory you need to reboot your iPhone. Just turn it off, then on to remove it from memory.

Yes, it's a pain...but it works and is the only solution I am aware of. Hopefully Apple will get around to fixing this bug soon.

Lew

I think you can just load up another app and this may not happen.

I use Last.fm app a lot, and i've yet to have the iPod app start running again. The only time that it happens is after ive used the iPod app and then let it sit idle for a while.

One thing that might help out.

When the ipod is playing it has the function to pause when the headphones are disconnected, then resume when you plug the headphones back in.

Also, if you connect the headphones and roll the cable around the iphone to put in your pocket.
The mic button might inadvertently be pressed to resume playing.

Hope this helps.

what good are these forums when no one answers the problem?

I have also had this problem, and from what I understand, here's the reason:

There are 4 sections to the headset cable plug, left audio, right audio, microphone and ground. The problem is when the microphone and ground contacts are momentarily touched, the iPhone detects this as if the user clicked the microphone button. The "Play song" command is run if you don't have a song playing, a "Resume playing song" command is run if you have a song paused, or a "Pause song" command is run if you are listening to a song.

I have had this happen with the Apple headphones and others that have a microphone. So far, this has not happened with regular headphones (ie no microphone).

The only solution I can think of that keeps using an already 'in use' design is to have 2 places to plug in headphones, 1 for the earbuds and 1 for the microphone. Sadly, this isn't really practical. However, I guess it would be possible to make a plug that is longer and use that area for the microphone, but it would require a lot of work that probably won't happen.

Or, better yet, make is so that to start/pause a song, you have to hold the mic button for 1 second or something. I think that would be awesome because it keeps the functionality without adding too much more work for the end user...