iPad starts playing music in my bag!

This post helped me with this problem, but what I really wanted to do was to turn my *keyboard* off, not my iPad, because I don't like that my keyboard batteries get used up every time it's bumped. Also, getting into the bluetooth settings every time I put the thing away to too much hassle. I did not find a useful answer in the manual, but I did find the answer in the forums: press and hold the power button until the light goes out. (duh...)

Possibly unrelated, when I tried to turn the keyboard back on, the light just blinked at me and didn't connect. But I'm hoping that's just that I need to change the batteries.

This is my solution 2. With BT off, music never starts playing.

Its not the BT keyboard but it is BT related. I have the same issue and I don't have a BT keyboard. My issue started when I connected through BT to my car radio. If I don't turn BT off, the music starts randomly playing regardless of where I am in relation to the car.

It is NOT a bluetooth keyboard issue but it IS a BLUETOOTH issue as it relates to IOS.

It has happened on my Ipad and the music played through the speaker, so it is NOT an earbud or headphone issue.

I do not have a bluetooth keyboard but I always use a bluetooth earpiece for phone conversations.

Both my Ipad Mini and my Iphone will, at any time, start to play a song AFTER I end a call.

It happens regularly...maybe once or twice a day out of 30 or 40 calls.

I have not been able to predict the event.

I was just in Apple and remarkably, no one has ever heard of this phenomena.

It has happened to my wife's Ipad (she has a bluetooth keyboard).

It has happened with Ios7, Ios 6 and Ios 5.

I have a bluetooh keyboard with my Mac Mini and my wife has a BT Keyboard with her Macbook and neither have ever spontaneosly started a song, so it IS an IOS issue.

There is no digital environment as complete as Apple but it saddens me that Apple has not onlyignored the isse, but has apparently gone out of their way to make sure no one in the organization admits to its existance.

It must be one **** of a software problem so entangled in code that they cannot find a fix.

Hi everyone,

It looks like one of our two iPads suffers from a different variant of this problem: it plays the first 5 seconds of one track, on a random basis (up to 3-4 times a day) WITHOUT BT enabled and without any BT keyboard around. The Music app is NOT running.

It always plays the first 5 seconds of the same track, at about 50% volume regardless of the audio volume controls. Interestingly enough, it once happen while a movie was playing ... the movie sound level went down and the little music bit came up as if it were a system notification. Five seconds later, when the music was over, the movie sound went back to the original level.

It happens while the iPad is not in use and the screen is blank, but the music does not wake the screen up, nor leaves any traces (notifications, messages etc). I never used that track as a ringtone or anything like that, and the iPad is not jailbroken. It is a 64GB iPad Retina Display (WiFi + cellular), iOS 6.1.3

I wonder if this is indeed an iOS glitch ... it looks more like an app that picked a track from my iTunes library and plays its intro back randomly. I'll try to kill all running apps and leave the iPad over night (yes, it plays this at night time as well ...) to see if this happens again.

If you have any ideas please post here (no matter how crazy those ideas may seem), this is really annoying and needs to stop.

Thanks a lot!

Apple_Healthy_Choice-

Yours is an interesting problem. It reminds me of a ringtone, even though you may not have intentionally set it up that way.

I would look at Apps like Mail, Calendar, Skype, Messages, FaceBook, Twitter or FaceTime that might be capable of notifying you of an incoming message. Check Settings-Notification Center and Settings-Sounds to see if any items there could be causing the problem.

Fred

Thanks for the post, Fred! The music snippet that's being played is made of the first 5 seconds of an iTunes track from my library (a classical album purchased on iTunes). I never bought any ringtones, nor have I tried to convert any of my tracks into ringtones, so that part of iOS is factory-default. There is no "foreign" entry among the system sounds, so there's no such option when selecting the sound associated with an app-generated alert. Further, if it were associated with a notification, that would add an entry to the notifications list ... which is not the case here, there's no other trace left in the system (as far as I can tell) when the music is being played.

I read another post about someone having a similar problem (but not a fixed-duration music snippet), and rebooting the tablet (Home and Power depressed for 15 seconds) fixed it. I just don't want to do that yet (that's Windows-style :-), at least not until we can find out what's going on. The music is nice and it doesn't play too loud, I can live with it for a little longer. The glitch survives power-offs. Today was quiet, no music ... yet, but I'll post here as soon as I have news on this, and I appreciate any feedback from Apple enthusiasts!

Thanks again!

My ipad will be a sleep or even awake on and will start playing a theme like song all most sounds like Mario ( and I don't even own that theme song)

I have been having the same problem and recently just found that if you push the volume up/down keys on the side simultaneously that it starty playing music.

i don't have an additional keyboard. I never pushed F8. All I ever did was flip my ipad closed, and then I hear the noise, I open it and see the app is not opened or running, I open the app and have to hit pause, then close the app, and I have no way of knowing that it is completely off WHY NOT HAVE A STOP BUTTON INSTEAD OF JUST HAVING AN ICON THAT ALTERNATES BETWEEN PLAY AND PAUSE ? My solution? I keep my headphones plugged in so the noise is never loud. that just runs down my battery. embarrassment limited to my feelings of inadequacy in managing new technology, but not having ghost music play in business meetings.

Brand new iPad mini retina just woke me up with netfix at 7am. IPad was asleep but cover was open. I have no Bluetooth keyboard

I have same related problem, with bluethoot car. My problem is same, but worst.

When I want to play a game or listen music trough Youtube, always play music the music player. If I stop music player, also stops all Bluetooth music.

If kill the music player task, never mind, it auto start again when want to use play a game.

If put player in silence, then can't listen game also.

Oh, I've find a great idea: create a play list, not repeat set, and only one song, then made to play the playlist, at the end of song, there is nothing more to play in the playlist.... result: never mind, he find another song to play.

But... probably i've a solution, perhaps useful for many of you, just find a SILENCE song, set it like auto repeat, and let him play as much as he want...

Mine started doing this about a month ago, first on my iPhone.I had had my iPhone open to check voicemail, but then turned it off and connected to charger. It was 4am. I started hearing voices. Sounded like someone was talking outside, and I literally crawled around to hide to see where the voices were coming from. The sound was quieter on my porch, louder inside (but still quiet). Once I determined it didn't have to call 911, I started tracking the sounds. Eventually, it was music. And it was coming from my earbuds!!

Going to the double-click to see what programs were active, there was NOTHING related to music or sounds turned on. Nevertheless, I swiped all programs off. I have Bluetooth turned off always, and obviously don't have a keyboard attached. I have no music on my phone and never use iTunes. The sound continued.

I deleted all the radio apps I had (once, I had NPR music on, but, like this, it had turned itself on and it didn't show as resident either. I couldn't find a stop or kill switch, so I deleted the NPR apps). But the music continued. The only way it went off was from rebooting.

It comes back and I don't know why or how to stop it. It wears down my battery.

The other day I plugged in my earbuds to my iPad to check out a binaural beat program. I held down the earbud off/on switch to try to get my iPad out of a freezeup, and it started playing some danged music.

I don't get it. I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong and what I can do to stop this battery drain.

Thanks for listening

I have had the same issue with my iPad 2. I purchased it last December and I routinely find that it automatically turns on music by itself. I do not have a bluetooth keyboard so that is not the issue as others seem to be claiming it has to do with a keyboard. I have a leather cover on it. I notice that there are times I set it down and it just starts playing music. I have NEVER actively went to even use the Music app so it is not something I turn on. This has ended up several times causing my battery to drain because I set it down and don't always catch that music is playing. I can't believe that not one Apple representative has even commented on this issue or mystery setting.

Only solution I've found is to remove the Music app and use something else to play music.