Why does my Music start playing automatically when I plug in headphones?

Even more annoyingly, while on Duolingo wearing wireless headphones (non ios), the music app opens and starts playing music over the top of my Spanish lesson audio! I even tried deleting Music app from my ipad as never listen to music on it and it just reopens all by itself, even though i have deleted the icon from the screen?! I am about to cancel my Music subscription over it!

DELETE MUSIC! That seems to be the only solution. I spent precious minutes searching for an answer, every article misunderstands the problem/question/issue, or… offer the wrong solution. I was never a fan of iTunes, it was easy for me to delete the “Music” app. Buy another player.

I have just bought Bluetooth headphones and have been having the same issue, it's very frustrating. As I don't use Apple Music much I simply offloaded the app in Storage. Seems to have solved the problem. BUT: the headphones will default to the last thing you listened to, whatever or wherever it was. This is a BIG BUG for such expensive phones....

This is a WELL-known Apple bug. Many, many people have been complaining about it for several years (there's a separate, long thread about it somewhere in this community), but Apple refuses to do anything about it.

Bro this is happening to me. My charging port is iffy so it unplugs a lot so everytime it comes loose it just starts playing music but I don’t want it too lol. I’ve turned car play off and every other option I can think of but this trash company will design **** specifically for us to upgrade. Why do you think the new iPhones have so many accessories? So ready to switch from this **** device.

Apple, I find it interesting that there are so many people who are vocalizing their dissatisfaction with the auto play feature on their devices, and yet there is silence on your part concerning this issue. There are 22 pages of comments complaining about this and no response from apple. This silence is insulting to your customers. The users of your products are of the opinion that you don’t care in the least about their issue. You know about it. You just don’t care. You should be embarrassed. If I was to be inappropriate in my comments, there would be someone swooping in to censor them… Obviously apple is watching or that would not be the case. So, Apple, will you post in this thread a response? Or, will you continue to ignore this issue? My money is there will not be any input in this thread from Apple. Yes, many other people are having the same issue, yes Apple knows, yes you cannot work around it, Yes Apple doesn’t care about your frustrations. Apple thinks you should just be thankful for your broken phone.

I had the same issue so I found this link and it helped me turn off the auto play music when headphones are connected. https://www.tenorshare.com/iphone-fix/iphone-plays-music-by-itself.html

Hope this helps others fix this issue, I know it helped me.

I have been having the same issue with my device 12Pro for 3 months!! It will end any voice call

i am on and start playing music, even though the music app is closed. If it allows me to make the call the music will be playing at the same time. As long as the headphones are plugged in!! Do better apple!!!

Every time I start my car, I tunes just starts playing automatically. I’ve turned off everything in settings and it stills does this. It annoys my life. I’m trying to drive and simultaneously turn it off. Not safe Apple. Get it together! It looks like thousands of people with iPhone13 has this issue. Honestly I also had this issue with my iPhone 11 and it annoyed me to the point that I deleted the music app. Shame cause I like the app. I won’t be making any music purchases as I will be getting rid of my membership and the app once more. Why pay for annoyance? I know I’m not the only one who has done this. I never have this issue with YouTube Music. You’re messing up you’re own money by not fixing this.

I’ve come to the conclusion that we as consumers see this issue as a bug; but I’m convinced the apple developers are considering this some kind of “feature”. It’s been a well documented complaint for literally years, and apple has never attempted a “fix”; likely because they don’t see it as broken. It forces us to utilize some of their apps, so they are happy.

apple as a company has become nothing more than a steaming pile of garbage. Their ability to innovate and create is long dead. The last 3 iPhones have all been exact copies of each other, with changes so minor they may as well be calling the iPhone 13 the iPhone 11.3

I’m going to light $1000 on fire to pay this device payment off; then I’m switching back to android and never looking back.

goodbye apple;

-an Ex apple fan

(yes apple is purposely not capitalized. They don’t deserve capitalization anymore, their annoying forum attempts to force the capitalization, but I went back and fixed it.)

Until I stumbled onto this chain, I didn’t realize it was a bug. I simply assumed Music was supposed to start when I start my car, or plug it into a rental car usb. The odd thing to me is that music starts without Music being on. So I have to turn Music on to turn Music off. Annoying is a polite word for this sometimes dangerous driving distraction.

Music keeps coming on after I’ve done everything to stop it, I just wanted to delete the whole thing off my phone but, it warns I’d lose the purchased music. I’ve tried everything on YouTube it doesn’t work! Apple please, give a fix for this is driving me mad!

The only way to get iTunes to stop playing music automatically is to delete the app permanently. After all the hints and headaches associated with this problem, I have come to the conclusion that no one cares. I’m done.

My solution is to delete the app. Then, the odd time I want to listen to a song that isn’t on Spotify I download Apple Music and then delete it again afterwards. My only annoyance is that these downloads likely count as app downloads for Apple and may mislead others into thinking it is a good app.

Apple needs to fix this. This is obviously a bug with the update and yes it’s annoying and it was never like this before. Can’t even listen to music or anything without Apple Music randomly starting on its own in the background to interrupt everything I do now.

Apple: when are y’all fixing this??