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

This is really frustrating situation I am also facing issue. It drops my ongoing call and Music will start.

Apply is just busy making money and customers are struggling. I was facing sam eissue in iPhone7 and now even in iPhone 12. this is Apple Music DNA issue.

Same problem, but it happens with any speaker connection. I get into the car, and Carplay starts as soon as bluetooth connects to the phone. I put on my headphones and music starts. Etc., etc. It's particularly frustrating with the music because the app doesn't appear as open, so I have to search it out and close it manually. Who at Apple had the great idea of, "Hey, as soon as someone connects to anything, let's just turn on some app!" At least give us the option of turning this feature off.

Honestly Apple, how bad of a company can you BE?!

This has been going on for YEARS and still no fix, not even a response!

plug in headphones, music auto blows your head off!. Get in the car, Bluetooth connects, Blammo!

Why is this still going on?! For god’s sake, put a dev team on this and rewrite Apple Music from scratch if you have to, because this just ridiculous.

It looks for AirPods, turning off “Automatic Ear Detection” might do it!

Apple has a solution under AirPods User Guide. With the pods in your ears, go to settings>Bluetooth>then the ‘i’ next to your Pods, and it should be there…

~Brian

I think it has to do with the Up Next icon. When your music is playing turn off the infinity loop ♾ which is actually the icon for auto play. My music and voice calls etc. we’re fine until I was fiddling with these icons and inadvertently left this one ON. That’s when the trouble started. All conflicts solved once I turned this icon OFF. Good luck everyone.

What is even STRANGER than this, is the fact it’s been going on for a decade or more and Apple ignores it like it doesn’t exist. That’s the strange part. Absolutely zero fix for a dozen years. iOS after new iOS after update after update… They have no idea why it’s happening, they have no idea how to fix it, they have no intention of EVER fixing it.

It’s a bug deep in the code from some looong ago version in some looooong ago function library, and fixing it might mean breaking a hundred other things that depend on those libraries to function. They just don’t care enough to invest in it.

Heres the ONLY known way to fix it:

Create or download a 30 second track of silence. EVERY time you are done with the music app, play then pause that track. Now, when it auto plays, you’ll get that instead of an eardrum breaking blast from some other song. It’ll still interrupt you, but at least your hearing remains intact.

I have an iPhone 12. I’ve only encountered this issue when using my new Turtle Beach headphones. I thought maybe it was a firmware issue, but it seems many people are experiencing this with other types of listening devices. Very very weird and annoying

Same here. Deleted the Music app, now Podcasts app playing over anything else (even instagram videos), deleted Podcasts app, now it’s something else… insufferable. The only alternative I see is go all Samsung, I guess.

iPhone X - having same issues with headphones plugged in, Apple Music will start playing automatically after 5 minutes or so. Would love for that bug to get fixed.

Obviously Apple don't respond. I have exactly the same issue and it's f'ing annoying

Hi dthomasdigital, can you elaborate on the handoff feature and what the "still *****" means? Sorry for my ignorance.

Nearly 2 months and why is this still a problem? It doesn’t happen with the air pods, just the wired ear buds. Apple, please FIX this annoying problem!!!!!!!

Here is the link to post the problem directly with Apple re: Apple Music Autoplay:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html

Thanks Alex! I just did that. It worked!

In the meantime, here is link to post bugs/request fixes: https://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html