Apple Music randomly plays when I remove AirPods

I'm having the exact same issue. I was watching Netflix on my iPad, with my Airpod pros. When I took them out, Apple music started just blaring out a random song--waking up my poor husband! I had not been listening to Apple Music and had turned off Netflix. I certainly don't want music that I wasn't even listening to to start playing when I take out my AirPods. It's literally disturbing!

A year and a half later and not only is this not fixed but the issue has gotten significantly worse. It now plays at max volume out of the iPhone speaker

i listen to mostly audiobooks. If I pause them for more than a few min or receive a call or use any

other app that uses audio (camera/video eg.) when I unpause it starts playing a random song from my really old iTunes. I don’t use The music app at all, nothing is turned on auto play, and when it says happen doesn’t show the music app is even open therefore I can’t force close it. Don’t wanna lose my old music but I’m just going to delete the music app if I can. This happens pretty much every day four or five times a day. (I use my airpod pros a lot)

I have had the same thing happen to me, beginning the day that I first purchase the Air Pod Pros. I have tried all the "fixes" recommended here and elsewhere. Nothing works.

It seems enough people are encountering..... and are BOTHERED...... by this that Apple should pay attention to it and get it fixed.

Please!!!!!!!!

Deleted Apple Music. That helps.

Just wish they would only play audio on command. Across every app. Don’t need music screaming at me just because some BT speakers are nearby.

And especially don’t need my phone interrupting the radio in my car to play random adverts when I am browsing the web (son was driving, car was connected to CarPlay, and I was simply reading the news.). This UX sucks!!!

I’m both impressed and appalled by the incompetence of Apple’s software engineers. Any serious dev team would consider this a high priority bug but Apple stopped caring about UX about 3 iOS versions ago so here we are. How are yall not embarrassed?

This has been driving me nuts, but I may have figured it out. I didn't even know about this force sensor feature, but it's basically a button on the stem of the AirPods. It's not actually a button, but has a very subtle haptic click when you press it. If you accidentally trigger the force sensor while you're taking out your AirPods or putting them in the charger, it starts Apple Music. You can try this while the AirPods are in your ear and see that you can start/stop music that way. I hope this helps the several thousand people who have had to deal with this.

OK this was helpful and might point us to a more basic, underlying problem: Even with 

• a freshly re-started phone
• NO app open
• AirPods in my ears

a press on the bottom stem of the AirPods WILL start the last song that I had once played on the music app!

Of course this should never happen (music playing without any app open). 

It seems likely that this obvious basic bug is also triggered in the more complex case of closing the AirPod case and switching the audio to speaker that we have been discussing in this thread.

If it is an iOS bug, it has been chronic, lasting over several iterations of iOS.

An AirPods bug seems more feasible to me.

Regardless, the time for Apple to have addressed it is now LONG overdue.

Welcome to the club!

Still no answers from Apple Technical Support

I have this issue too. It only seems to happen with my newer airpod gen3. (i.e. not second gen) I've tried all these work-around fixes and nothing helps.

It's absolutely is a bug and apple needs to fix it! When we take airpods out of our ears, and put them away, the phone should NEVER start playing music. I finish a call, put my airpods away, then walking down the street I'm all "Huh? Why am I hearing Tangerine Dream music drifting out of my pocket!?". There is NEVER a case when you want this to happen. It's clearly a bug.

I just mentioned this annoying bug to my wife, and she chimed in that it's happening to her too! She was confused by it when it first started happening to her. It only started happening to her once we got her some new airpod gen3 recently. So judging by the comments from folks here, then it's a bug with airpod pro and airpod gen 3, possibly on iPhone 13 and higher.

Note, that it does not seem to happen with my airPod Max. (Nor for my wife when she uses her airpodMax). It seems related to putting the airpods into the case.

I tried to find other threads where people are reporting this issue here in the apple community, and there are other people reporting this too, but this is the busiest thread, so I'm adding my voice (actually two, my wife and me) to this complaint.

Apple, please acknowledge this at least, and please get your crack team on a bug-fix asap. Thanks!

(PS - we also subscribe to Apple One).

I have the same issue.

I do not subscribe to Apple Music, have not done so for years.

Finish a phone call, remove AirPod Pros and place on desk (not in case) and music starts playing randomly - not all the time.

iPhone 12 Pro Max

IOS 16.5

Hi Spek1,

Certainly is odd. Typically the content playing will pause when AirPods are removed. However, there are some things you can check.

With the Music app open, check to see if the Autoplay feature is on. The article here can help: Add music to your queue to play next on your iPhone

Specifically, "To turn Autoplay on or off, tap the Autoplay button the Autoplay button icon in the upper-right corner of your screen. If you turn off Autoplay on one of your devices, then Autoplay is turned off on any device that's signed in with your Apple ID."

Also, have you checked your AirPods Automatic Ear Detection setting? Does it occur with the feature both on and off? If so, you may need to reset your AirPods.

The article here: Change the settings of your AirPods and AirPods Pro has the information quoted below and additional helpful details.

"Turn Automatic Ear Detection on or off

By default, AirPods sense when they're in your ear and receive the audio from your device. AirPods also pause and resume playback when you remove one of your AirPods, or stop playback—and won't resume—when you remove both. When you have Automatic Ear Detection on and you're not wearing your AirPods, audio plays through your device's speakers.

When you turn off Automatic Ear Detection, these features are off and all audio plays to your AirPods whether or not you're wearing them."

If the issue remains, test a normal restart of your iPhone and a reset of your AirPods How to reset your AirPods and AirPods Pro

Reach out to Apple Support directly if you continue to have any trouble.

Contact - Official Apple Support

Contact Apple for support

Cheers.

Spek1,

Got it. Testing with automatic ear detection both on and off will be the best way to narrow this down. Let us know how it goes! Take care.

It's not just IOS. OSX has the same problem. It will stat music on it's own and play randomly when I remove my EarPods pro.