Car Music Auto Play Turn Off/Switch?

I agree 100%, but is anybody listen from apple, i find it hard to believe a trillion dollar company have a issue like this, it’s all over the internet, it’s been happening for years. But here is how bad apple has become. I call the support number and the person answer the phone would not open a case, she kept saying go to this webpage and give feedback. So i asked her “what are you for, Apple paying you to do what.” If Apple do not fix the communication issue, the company will fall, and it will fall fast.

KiltedTim you are not adding and substance to this discussion we heard these lame excuses before and has nothing to do with the fact you should be able to switch off any of these external controls period.

iTunes need to have a kill switch or settings, sometimes i want to listen to music, but not play automatically or when i try to play something else, like an podcast or youtube it starts playing after a few minutes of playing something else

Ha! Easy peasy is right! Thanks so much for this post. It's a breath of fresh air in all the internet drama and whining about this issue. Your little automation with a minor mod looks like it did the trick for my wife's iPhone and her new car. I just added a 3 second delay between connecting bluetooth and pausing media. Without the delay, the automation was running before the car got around to trying to play something. Thanks again.

I disagree with your response. When I have my bluetooth headset connected to the iPhone and NOT playing music, when I get a text message it beeps in my headset to tell me I got a message and then starts playing music.

There was NO music playing at the time. This is not just about the bluetooth standard for connecting a device, because my device was already connected.

There may be a bluetooth standard, but this is being caused by interactions with how audio (from more than the music app) is being handled on the iPhone and should be something that can be disabled. The iPhone is currently setup to assume that if you have a bluetooth device connected to the phone that you want to play with music. Given this is a multimedia device, handling phone calls and video calls and audio from multiple sources, it's a bit odd that they would assume that all you want to do with a bluetooth headset is listen to THEIR music app.

What is needed would NOT violate the Bluetooth standard, and yes we know it's not a feature of the iPhone, that's why tens of thousands of people are complaining about it.

Telling people to "go buy something else" (sure I'll throw a $1,000 phone in the garbage because of this) and "stop whining" is inappropriate. This is a forum about that very topic, and by the way, if you don't like this topic, and don't have anything positive to add, why are you on this topic commenting?

Otherwise I will need to DELETE the Apple Music app, and just use Spotify. Is that what Apple wants?

I used to have iPhone 7 plus somehow I disable the iTunes autoplay. Now that I have the iPhone 12 pro I can't seem to find how to disable the iTunes autoplay without disabling CarPlay all together. sucks that I have to delete iTunes but I will as you did because it's very annoying since I use Pandora most often.

I have had the same experience. It is a "feature" I really wish Apple would address. My only thought as to why they don't is that it must have something to do with either:

1. 1. the agreements that Apple has made with the video and audio content providers, or,
   2. the autoplay juices the numbers and revenue somehow.

If that’s true then why doesn’t it continue playing the podcasts I’m trying to listen to instead of starting iTunes which I didn’t open or start to play. How about just getting your engineers to give us a solution????? This has been a complaint for YEARS. Are they unable to figure it out? Doubt it - there is always a monetary reason behind it.

Mikedh112 wrote:

I agree, this has to be a function in the phone. Until i updated my phone 2 updates ago, this didnt happen. Now every time i get in the car my phone auto swaps and starts playing itunes. I hate it! If there is not a fix for it about to swap from apple.

You can believe what you want. It will not alter reality in the slightest.

Whatever.

Go ahead and reject reality and substitute your own.

Apple's not going to deviate from the bluetooth standard just because you can't figure out how to work the stereo in your car.

Dude stop, this is a iPhone group not a advocate for bluetooth, we need to have complete control of our iPhone

I want a solution to this too. If I was listening to music or a book & don’t need it to start playing when clients or my kids get into the car with me. Apple please fix this!!

can a button/toggle be added to the phone to block this from happening in all cars?

yo, if you aren't going to assist the OP then throw your fit elsewhere.

You are welcome to reject reality and substitute your own. It won't change the facts.