iPad starts playing music in my bag!

i put my ipad in my bag and then after walking a bit, it starts playing music by itself. so obviously some jostling caused some combination of button hits on the ipad's outer controls caused music to autoplay.

can anyone tell me which buttons play music without opening up ipod in the ipad itself? sort of like me hitting the button on my iphone headset, when there is no active call, will start playing music on my iphone.

thx

iPad, iPhone OS 3.1.3

Posted on Apr 22, 2010 4:12 PM

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Aug 16, 2014 11:53 AM in response to DShen

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...

Dec 4, 2014 2:45 AM in response to DShen

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

Dec 29, 2016 11:36 AM in response to DShen

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.

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