iTunes keeps opening itself

For me it is absolutely the headphone jack. (macbook) I made all the recommended preferences changes to no effect. On the other hand, every time I jiggle the headphone plug iTunes pops up. Not sure how to fix this. My son had problems a few years ago with his headphone/speaker jack also. These issues need to be addressed with better/different hardware.

so I give up- where is that setting? I have been to every device and cannot find it

I was having this issue before realizing I was the inadvertently causing it. My AppleTV sits, under my TV, on a wall in my living room facing my iMac which sits a short distance away on the opposite wall (if you can picture that). Turns out that the plastic frame around my TV was reflecting the signal from the apple tv remote back to the computer on the opposite wall which was triggering the iTunes app and causing it to open and play when I was just trying to watch Hulu on my apple tv 😊. Hope this post eases the insanity I imagine some of you (in my boat) are feeling.

Thanks for this fix - it has really helped me with iTunes opening up (constantly) after I upgraded to iTunes 10.5 and the new iOS5 on the iPad2. I guess what we're doing here is sacrificing the wi-fi sync capabilities of the device in order to keep iTunes closed. My wi-fi sync options are gone now that I unchecked that box - but the good news is that iTunes isn't opening every minute or so. I talked with an Apple rep who denied ever hearing iTunes opening on its own was an issue and from the posts I see in the Community boards and the internet this is nothing new... it happened back to 2005 or so on older versions of OS and iTunes.

If you have a way to use wi-fi syncing (the iCloud) would you post that? For now, I think I'll just use the USB port and the nice little white cord.

Thanks.

John

My iTunes just started doing this today. I haven't made any changes to my computer at all lately. In fact I haven't used iTunes in ages. I agree with strangelove1, it is absolutly the headphone jack. After reading that response, I wiggled my headphone jack and it opens iTunes and starts playing a song. Wiggle it again and it stops playing. In the last 5 minutes it has done this about 10 times. This is ridiculous. I'm trying to get some work done and iTunes is driving me bonkers.

If its iTunes 10.5, and your iDevices are iOS 5, then iTunes will open up every time if you have "Open iTunes when this iPad is connected" ticked in the iDevice sync settings. (Because of wifi sync) Uncheck that box and you should be fine.

It's not on a device.

Plus the fix is only for iTunes 10.5 working with an iOS 5 device.

If you are using the above two, then:

Open iTunes. In the left hand side bar, there should be an entry for your device. Normally, you sync by clicking that entry and clicking sync. Instead, click on that entry, and then make sure that the "summary" tab is open. Near the bottom, there are some checkboxes. Uncheck the "Open iTunes when this iDevice is connected".

THat should fix it.

That's wierd... I have the "open itunes when device connected" box unchecked and wifi sync is still on (the wifi sync checkbox is visible--but I wifi sync with my laptop, not the iCloud)

Basically, "when this iPad is connected" means "all the time" bacause of the wifi thing. To fix this, one can either tell iTunes not to open on device connect, or one can disable wifi sync. Are you sure you haven't done the latter?

If you haven't its either the iCloud thing, or it (unlikely) is because the iPad 2 treats wifi sync a bit differently than iPad 1.

-Manish

I am having the same problem, I use windows XP, I tried all the suggestions in this thread and nothing worked. But I was able to fix it, I went into windows task manager and clicked on processes. I closed Itunes and noticed that that Ituneshelper.exe was still running, I ended the process and now it is fine

Have had this happening for the past week. (I'm using a Windows 7 PC with iPad and iPod Touch) Found a simple solution from an old Yahoo forum that seems to have fixed it for me:

Go to Start, Run, type in msconfig and hit enter. When the window opens look for Start-Up programs. Click on tab, check to see if iTunes is listed. If it is and has a check mark beside it (mine did), clear the check mark and restart your computer.

Hope this helps someone.

When you connect your iPhone / iPad to iTunes, it should show up in the left-side bar, under the Devices section.

Click on it. Then, on the Summary tab of the resulting sync pages, scroll down to the bottom, for a section called "Options" -- and you can uncheck "Open iTunes when this device is connected."

For me, I unchecked "Sync with this iPad/iPhone over Wi-Fi", which was causing my problem.