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

I have the same problem as everyone else. Tech support not able to help.

Apple... PLEASE PLEASE fix this. When the music comes on over my earbuds it is JARRING! It has caused me to say things I regret. I have had to ask God for forgiveness many times. Please help me.

Similar here. Apple Music starts or sometimes Siri prompts. I didn’t associate it with an iOS upgrade, I felt like it was related to the wire connection port. At times the music seems to play as in fast forward. None of the fixes seem to work at this point.

I am stunned that I’ve been struggling with this for months and find this thread and Apple still hasn’t fixed it ! It DRIVES ME CRAZY that every time I get in the car, the music starts. I turned off the auto play. I closed Apple Music. And as everyone says, it just defaults to playing Spotify. Is there any social media that Apple cares about its customers complaints? I don’t think they look at twitter or Facebook. Any other way to get their attention?

Apple will never fix this problem, it has been around since iPhone 6 and they have known about it since then, it used to scare heck out of me in my car since I used Bluetooth for hands free and boom music would randomly start up. It is however a Bluetooth issue so maybe someone smarter than me can figure it out.

https://www.imyfone.com/iphone-issues/iphone-plays-music-by-itself/#tip1

this has been driving me nuts too, I think #2 on this list may have fixed mine for now. I just untapped everything on the edit list in my library 🤷‍♀️ Who knows... so annoying, maybe this list will help y’all too

I have same problem some what. I have iPhone 7+ 13.3. I use phone in car to listen to music, podcast, etc... It auto magically connects to my car bluetooth. which is cool. I can make phone calls. But what drives me nuts is that Apple Music auto magically starts. I have read to go to cellular>music turn it off. That don't work. I turn off the apply by swiping up, but then it comes back on, I tell Siri to stop it. that last a couple seconds. Driving me nuts. It will stop if I delete the app. But if I plug the phone not MacBook Air. then it cant sync bc the app is gone.

Spotify, podcast. I have no proble, I just turn off cellular. And in spotify setting there is a toggle/switch to turn off autostart.

I don't apple will look into this. I don't think this isa major concern for them. I have called apple, my stereo UCONNECT #. each one says its the problem from each other. SMH.

Since it happens on my dodge uconnect, my GMC Radio and my wife’s Honda radio... it’s an apple iPhone issue and they need to address it! It can be quite distracting and Once a song came on, had car screeching and horns in the background, startled me. U can bet if it distracts me and I get in an accident as a result, the lawsuit will force them to address it! It is mit a “Bluetooth issue” I have blue tooth off and have iPhone plugged in!

I tried doing the cord. but then I got wires hanging. So I bought a bluetooth transmitter that plugs into the aux. I hope know one gets into a accident. But that won't cause apple to design something as simple as a switch/toggle in the app settings. Apple has great products. But its really annoying. Gotta hook iPhone, iPad to MacBook just to transfer music. Why cant we do this in icloud. Can do a lot of other things in iCloud. I am really thinking about going back to droid. But I like it how all 3 of my apple stuff are synced together.

porter555 did you find a resolution? I fall asleep with a meditation app/ ear buds that stops automatically after an hour on my iPad mini but get blasted Awake hours after by something from my library ( scared the **** out of me) . Whats is irritating is it being so loud and I’d not been on music app in a month and I have to give a code to log on my iPad every few minutes but this blasts out of no where? Next thing I’ll try is the Netflix app because that is what I’m using before the meditation app.

My problem was resolved with the iso 13.3 update.

I use AirPods during the day and have never had a problem with them coming on by themselves, though I constantly have to turn Siri’s voice level down. I wear wired/corded earbuds connected to my iPhone X when I go to bed at night; that was where I was having the problem with my ‘last played,’ which was usually a book from my Audible app, turning on by itself. The volume didn’t change but it woke me up nonetheless. I did remove, reinstall and followed-up w/Audible but the problem wasn’t coming from their app.

Good luck. Perhaps this latest update will fix your problem.

This problem just started happening to me a couple days ago. I have deleted the music app, shut off Siri and voice control and guess what? Voice control still pops up! When listening to podcasts it starts super fast or jumping ahead.

I had a phone interview this afternoon and it kept hanging up on the person! Extremely embarrassing!

Seriously, Apple?! You must have plenty of well paid geniuses on staff that can figure this out! COME ON!

Here we are in February 2020 and it's still happening - and I use a wireless headset for work and after every call that I'm on the music starts playing on my headset immediately. Like everyone else here, I've checked all the open apps and there is NOTHING open in the background and yet there is music playing... The only way I've found to make it stop (just for that moment) is to actually open the music app and then close it...definitely a bug.

I find that it always seems to happen right after I plug in, and there is no reason to continue this thread. By now Apple knows how we feel. The fact of the matter is, for music to automatically play, is to run the battery down. This is just part of Apple’s ploy to make churn and turn of Apple phones go faster.

It’s not just music, it’s voice control, it’s skipping and pausing music. There is an issue with the connectivity between the earphone jack and Apples port.

APPLE TELL EVERYONE WHAT IS THE PROBLEM !!

It happens on my Mac Mini. I have narrowed it down to when my wife is watching TV, via out Apple TV box and she changed channels, it triggers my Mac mini to start the Apple Music app with whatever is up next.

I also noticed when one of my daily alarms on my iPhone X is triggered and the music I use for the alarm starts playing, that same track will start on my Mac mini (if not sleeping).

Extremely annoying stuff. I may end up deinstalling music throughout my Apple Ecosystem. May need to find an alternative to my old iTunes use.