iPad starts playing music in my bag!

It just happened to me and that is how I found this discussion on the topic...

Mine was in an opened folio case on my desk whith the charger plugged in but a 100% charge. It was "off" (te stand-by mode when you turn the screen off with the top button) and I do use a lock combination.

I was doing something with my iPhone at the moment when it started playing ABC's Zillionaire (irrelevant but entertaining fact). I checked the bluetooth keyboard and it appeared to be off so I turned it On and stop the playback. By the way, when it started playing, just like when activated through the bluetooth keyboard, the screen does come on and asks for the pin number to unlock it.

Blutooth devices arround me include two Apple wireless keyboards (including the old one that does not pair with the iPad and the latest model which is paired to it), a MacbookPro and a D-Link adapter connected to a PowerMac keyboard (not paired to the Pad).

In addition, the keyboard was in a bag but nothing appeared to be pressing the any of the buttons as the netbook bag only had the keyboard.

(That's my story... hope we figure this one out. My iPad is now playing Metallica's Human... the stragest follow up after Zillionare.. no wait, now it's hungry like a wolf.)

Off-topic, sort of related ' cause of the bluetooth issue, can the iPhone 4 be paired with an iPad?

Well.. I also started experiencing this recently but in my case I was able to verify that the bluetooth keyboard was the cause... Basically, any key on the keyboard "activates" the iPad (as if you clicked the home key and slide to unlock).. and from that point on well. if you press the play button on the keyboard then it starts playing either music or video depending on what you did last.

To me it seems like a problem that needs to be fixed.

I have a wireless keyboard as well and turned it off, I.e. Bluetooth functionality completely turned off, and yet music just starts playing randomly. Really need help with this. It's ok to turn it all the way off but why do I have to. Someone said a double tap when locked will start the iPod? That's silly. It's not an iPod. Its primary function is not music. It's frustrating.

This is happening to me as well when my iPad is in my bag. Very embarrassing to be at a meeting and have music randomly start playing (it was Rihanna this morning).... Has this been figured out yet? I noticed most posts are older. I have a wireless keyboard. I thought that if I turned the keyboard off it would stop but today keyboard was off but music still played. I do use a lock combination. Help!

I started to have the same problem recently. Anyone found a solution?

Count me in ... Same thing & it MAY be the wireless keyboard ... don't know for sure but I REALLY NEED IT TO STOP ... especially the draining of the battery part 😟 😟 😟

TheVIPoser wrote:
Count me in ... Same thing & it MAY be the wireless keyboard ... don't know for sure but I REALLY NEED IT TO STOP ... especially the draining of the battery part 😟 😟 😟

Why not turn BT off and see if the problem goes away?

Are you putting the iPad to sleep before putting it into your bag? Press the Power button quickly to put it to sleep.

I had the same problem...THE solution is ridiculously simple. After doing some research on how to turn the iPod app, I realized (due to the threads that popped up) that when I was powering down my iPad (or so I thought) I was actually only putting it into a semi-sleep mode. This mode allows you to continue to received audio push notifications for email and other messages. IN ORDER TO FULLY PUT YOUR IPAD TO SLEEP, PUSH AND HOLD THE POWER BUTTON FOR A FEW SECONDS. When you turn it back on, you'll notice that the music player on the iPod app is off, not just on pause.

Hope that helps.

SouzaDad

There is no "semi-sleep" mode.
It is asleep or it is not.
The iPod app can still play unless it is powered off.

SouzaDad wrote:
........ IN ORDER TO FULLY PUT YOUR IPAD TO SLEEP, PUSH AND HOLD THE POWER BUTTON FOR A FEW SECONDS. When you turn it back on, you'll notice that the music player on the iPod app is off, not just on pause.

It's called the Sleep/Wake button, and pressing it momentarily will lock, or sleep, the iPad. There's no need to hold for several seconds and, in fact, doing so will present the red PowerOff slider. If you slide it, you shut down the iPad; if you cancel instead, you stay locked.

If the iPod is playing, sleep or locking won't stop it; it just keeps playing, and continues to play when you wake up the iPad again. If it had been paused, it comes back still paused on that same track. There really is no "off" state for iPod, no Stop button, etc.

I found this thread because I had the same problem. I have an iPad and an Apple Bluetooth keyboard that I carry around with me everywhere I go.

I actually returned my first iPad to Apple for this problem. They replaced it with no questions. I was getting ready to make another Genius Bar appointment, but thought it was odd that I would have two iPad's with the exact same problem.

Folks... It's the Bluetooth keyboard.

If the keyboard gets turned on accidentally, any button will wake the iPad up. From there if the "Play" button on the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard gets bumped, music will begin.

Simple solution? Turn off the Bluetooth until you're ready to use the keyboard.

Powering down the iPad works too, but kinda defeats the purpose of having something that's "instantly on".

I've had zero problems since I just deactivated Bluetooth until I need it. Plus I get even better battery life!

Yup, it is official, and a really annoying problem for everyone. It IS the bluetooth keyboard accidentally hitting its play/pause (f8) button against something in our bags (mine sometimes knocks itself back off too).

And even if the iPod app wasn't running to start with, hitting that button launches it too.

The only solution I was able to find also involves bluetooth, but turning off bluetooth in Preferences seems like overkill, and takes too long to reactivate each time. I've found that just turning off the bluetooth keyboard (hold the power button on the keyboard for a few seconds) is sufficient to turn it off (if you don't hold it long enough, it only puts the keyboard to sleep). This way the play/pause/f8 button won't strike accidentally to activate the ipod player on the ipad. and this is much faster to turn back on than going into System Preferences, etc... to reactive the iPad's bluetooth.

Hopefully this is a bug Apple will address. It's really annoying. Has anyone else found a better solution?

Hopefully this is a bug Apple will address

What bug? Pressing F8/Play makes the iPad play? That's what is supposed to happen.

I've had similar problems. I carry an iPad2 64Gb wifi in a small bag w/ the apple bluetooth keyboard. I have the cover lock and passcode lock options on with autolock set to 10min.

Here's what's happened to me:
- got home last night and was locked out of ipad for 60 min for failed passwd attempts (iPad had smartcover on)
- multiple instances of ipad playing music already with cover on when I take it out.
- this morning, I found that my bluetooth keyboard was "sticking." the last key touched acted as if it was held down. I figured it was the batteries. I disabled bluetooth, and went to work
- opened iPad at work and was playing music (with bluetooth turned off).
- replaced batteries on keyboard, but still got the behavior as if keys were being held down. this was interfering with using the soft keyboard as well. Tried to turn off keyboard, but still the backspace key was acting like it was pressed down so that anything I typed on soft keyboard was erased. I turned bluetooth back off, but that didn't do it. I unpaired the keyboard. That didn't do it. Finally restarted iPad, and that seemed to fix it. Repaired the keyboard, and it's behaving.
- the fact that bluetooth can be "off," but it still acts like characters are being received tells me that there's an issue w/ the bluetooth functionality on the ipad itself.
- until my ipad becomes more stable, I will be turning bluetooth off before packing it up and will be restarting the ipad regularly.

I hope this gets addressed, the keyboard is necessary for the way I want to use the iPad.