iPad starts playing music in my bag!

Hopefully this is a bug Apple will address

Thanks for the keyboard tip. I'm a student and it is super embarrassing when my iPad just starts playing the Grateful Dead, or Queen, or a recording of another lecture, or a podcast of Car Talk, etc during a lecture or, even worse, an exam!!

I actually had a double whammy the other day. I had the intensely annoying "Try again in 60 minutes" and the iPod started playing and I couldn't turn it off! (I used the outside switch to put the volume down.) It tends to start again at full volume even when I set the volume all the way down on the iPod.

I really like the instant on feature of the iPad and it seems unfortunate to have to disable it - I wonder if someone has made/will make a light weight molded case for the keyboard so that the F8 button can't be pressed?

I have the same problem with my iPad 2 64GB. However, there have been several instances where the music comes on when my wireless keyboard is on my desk two feet away from my bag holding the iPad. Nothing is touching the keyboard keys, and I have a hard case cover on the iPad so I can't imagine that it's buttons are being touched and commands activated.

I also don't understand why I can't just turn the volume down on the iPod. I've tried to reset it when it starts playing music. Even though I have the iPad on silent mode, the music still blares every time--even if I turned it down last time it started playing. Also, once it starts playing, the display is always on the home screen.

Can you please any updates or suggestions? Thanks.

I have the same problem and it didn't start until I started storing my ipad in a new case that also holds the keyboard. I think the keyboard is the link. It is the only way I can see how bumping a button (or a key in this case) will activate the ipod.

I tested this and sure enough, you can turn your ipod on from the keyboard even with the ipad cover closed. The keys on the keyboard are vulnerable to being activated when in a tight fitting bag (I have the iPad wallet from Waterfield Designs- very cool). I thought I had my keyboard powered down but apparently I didn't.

I've had my iPad for almost 3 months and this problem didn't start until I got the bag last week. I would bet that everyone else who has this problem also has a keyboard linked to it.

I'm going to road test this idea and I will be sure to retract if I find out I was wrong. So, no more news from me will be good news.

Okay, there have been enough posts that Apple ought to chime in anytime. My ipod has started playing randomly and I could attribute it (possibly) to my keyboard being knocked. But last week, at 4:00 in the morning when the house was dead asleep my ipod started blaring the Saw Doctors at high volume. It woke the whole house. My Apple bluetooth keyboard was downstairs on the coffee table and the iPad was upstairs charging. I do not have any music alarms set as was suggested in posts elsewhere as a possible culprit. Now I go to bed with the battery cover taken off the bluetooth so that I know the keyboard is disabled. This is a very annoying and unprofessional bug that Apple needs to fix!

Jnoslop-

With a few exceptions, Apple does not read these forums. To let Apple know there is a problem, enough people need to report it using feedback at <iPad Feedback>.

I don't think anyone mentioned that you can stop the music player function by removing the iPod from the Active Apps list. If you double-click the iPad's home button, recent Apps will line up along the bottom of the screen. Scroll across and find the iPod icon. Press and hold until it starts to wiggle. Then press the red minus sign to remove it from the list.

This won't keep a wayward keyboard from starting it again, but should stop the middle-of-the-night serenades.

Fred

I seem to be the newest addition to this problem. In my case, no pun, I was backing up my iPhone4 and my iPad was on my desk. No apps were on. As soon as I was done sync'ing and backing up my iPhone i was going to do the same with my iPad per general maintenance.

While backing up my iPhone all of a sudden my iPad started playing a Robbie Robertson song.

I checked my iPad to see if the iPod app was running and it wasn't! Like I said, no apps were running so I have no clue how music was playing. I do have a couple clock apps, but they are set to go off in the morning and it is 11PM AND my clock alarms are set to alarm sounds not my music.

I launched iPod app and saw that the song in question was "on" and when I pressed pause it stopped.

Then I plugged my iPad into my Mac to do it's backup/sync. All apps were off and in the middle of the backup/sync the same song started again. And I had to launch iPod to stop the song and then quite iPod app.

This has never happened before to me.

The only thing new tonight was that I downloaded Craigs List Pro with notifications that has push capability and...

I noticed that I had the Robbie Robertson album in my playlist checked to be on my iPhone (not iPad) and the same album checked under the Music tab so it was checked twice. I unchecked it in the playlist during my iPhone backup/sync. The same album is checked under the music tab for my iPad, but not as a playlist item on my iPad.

Very weird ghost in the machine...

I have the same problem and the keyboard can't be the culprit. I don't own one. Any other suggestions?

I have had my iPad (work-issued) for several weeks now. I bought a wireless keyboard and an incase origami keyboard case that also works well as a stand. However, the iPad has blared music at inopportune times (in the office, in the subway, etc.) so many times now that I have resorted to Plan B - removed all music, etc. from iTunes, so my iPad is empty. This is not an ideal solution, and something that should be rectified by Apple if the device is supposed to be what all expect.

Regardless of whether the bluetooth keyboard is unsynced or not (I am not sure why powering down the iPad, or unsyncing bluetooth each time, etc., are rationale ways of dealing with this as the iPad should be an "always-on, instant-on" device - that is its utility). The problem appears to lie in the iTunes functionality within the iPad itself - why accidentally pushing a keyboard function (e.g., F8) would start a random song (i.e., not the last that was being played - and no, I am a Luddite - I don't shuffle, but only listen to "albums" or my own "playlists" as "mixed tapes") at a volume level (highest) which I have never set to in the first place, is clearly a glitch. In all my years of owning an iPod, iPhone, or for that matter, any other music-playing device, I have never dealt with an issue such as this.

I trust something will be addressed so I can safely load my music back on to my iPad, and use it for the purpose it was built - multifunctional (work or play), convenient, and always-on - so that as long as it is charged, I can reliably count on it for any use. Until then, I feel a bit like I have a cool-looking Windows device - i.e., good for work, but with personal limitations...

FYI. To fix the problem I just turned my wireless keyboard off and wil sell it on eBay. Maybe I'll try a trip the the genius bar first.

Alpha: all I know is that I never had this problem until I got a wireless keepboard and it stops when the keyboard is off or not around. But you could still be right if there's a setting that gets set for the keyboard and causing the problem.

Personaly, I'd go to a Genius Bar. It's free and they'll solve it and then you can share it here. Thanks.

Steven

This has been happening to me as well. I resorted to moving my music into a folder on the home screen so it could be activated. It still happens though. I do have a keyboard, but I doubt that's the problem as it was happening to me before I got the keyboard - and just happened after I had disconnected the Bluetooth.

I guess I need to go to the genius bar as well.