Apple Music randomly plays when I remove AirPods

Agreed on all counts.

It's especially egregious because it will eventually blare something obnoxious on my iPhone speaker when I'm trying to be quiet using AirPods.

[Edited by Moderator] <-- and this really fries my eggs. My removed comment here was honorable and constructive. But I do appreciate being notified of it.

Happening to me on my MacBook Pro with OSX v12.6.1. I've never used the Music app on it, so it doesn't actually play music, but every time I put away my AirPods after using them it opens the Music app. Seems like this just started in the past two weeks for me.

I recently upgraded to the 14 pro max from the 12 pro max and this didn’t use to happen. I had my air pod pros in for some work calls. Took them out and out then in the case and all of a sudden my iPhone just plays a random some from Apple Music. It’s annoying. I could have had a tenant in my office and that would be really unprofessional. This needs fixed apple especially since this is a brand new device and it’s completed updated to the most recent iOS version!

This has been a thorn in my side for a long time now. I’ve woken up my wife late at night a handful of times with this overly annoying bug, and that’s never a good thing. I usually remember to go off to the other end of the house to put my pods away now, like a Pavlovian dog, but I don’t always remember, and I’m super annoyed every time. Sometimes it plays whatever I listened to recently, but I’ve also had random songs that I would never listen to start blaring. Has apple really not addressed this even in the slightest? This is definitely a first world problem but an extremely annoying one, nonetheless. I’m considering giving up on AirPods, at least until they fix the problem.

Correct. To the best of my knowledge Apple has not addressed this problem "even in the slightest."

It is a mystery to me why not especially since there are a lot of people who have expressed similar frustration / exasperation as your entertaining description!

Hopefully someone from Apple will read this and let us know why they have not made any attempts to figure this out....at least that we know of.

I also have to chime in because I hope we develop the largest thread ever for Apple to notice. In over 20 years of using apple products I’ve never seen them ignore a bug this annoying for that long.

my ossue is also that if you’renon a call and put one airpod pro in the case to charge, it will drop the call…anyone else? I find it absolutely frustrating that all these bugs hapen with a tool that is theoretically so amazong and easy to use (airpods pro). Hopefully it’s not something that’s now « fixed » with airpods pro gen 2.

"...but there’s no reason he needed serial numbers, etc."

Not sure I agree with you on this. I do agree digging all that info up is annoying, but to escalate an issue to engineering one of the first things they will want to look at is for potential Apps/driver/equipment firmware version/etc compatibility issues. Its just how the troubleshooting process needs to run in order for them to eliminate possible points of failure.

BTW, I don't work for Apple...I just know how deep tech problems are solved.

I also have this problem on my MacBook Pro M1 Max/Ventura. Its really, really annoying and happens almost every time I take off my Airpod Max Headphones. Music launches and starts playing at full volume some random song in my library.

Cheers

Right on. Thanks for the insight. I suppose I should follow through and escalate the issue, but it seems someone has had to have done this already. I ask everyone I know these days that has AirPods if they have this issue, and the answer is a resounding yes. This is not an isolated issue.

If so many of us are experiencing this as a problem, it sure seem like it’s a systemic problem and I wish Apple would respond. I wonder if they are concerned about some kind of recall. If there was a fix, I believe it would have been posted by now.

Bob, yes I originally posted in this thread on the 12th (scroll up!) about the same issue with Apple Music, which I'm also having. My latest post was commenting on other users' frustration with Apple Support. They're useless, and it doesn't just have to do with this music auto-play. They will act like they've never heard of an issue before regardless of how many people are having the issue.

@joshyea oh right that was you! I don't dare listen to that song and get it stuck in my head (or on my iPhone). I dread calling tech support more every year. The bigger the company the harder they can afford to turn that turnaround mill.

Hey we can embed a video here. I wonder if capturing this problem on camera would make a difference. ...2 hours later... intermittent bugs are the worst.

i don't want to jinx this, but i haven't had the issue for about 2 weeks now. It was occurring almost daily for me at the peak (earlier this month, end of last year). any others that have seen this fade away? I don't recall the timing of the last software update - so i don't know the potential trigger of the 'fix'

@diggins1 not to be a downer but it just happened to me yesterday. (A few seconds after putting my AirPods from ear to case, the iPhone X speaker started playing the Outcast app.) I seem to have the latest iOS 16.2 (20C65).

Is this bug that the AirPods (3rd generation) control is activated by touch, not pressure, and I'm "touching" them inadvertently while putting them away? It's still a UX crime that my speaker comes on. It's like locking my front door and the car starts.

sure enough ... i jinxed myself. later in the day after snapping my airpods case quite loudly (after putting airpods back in, after a call) .... random song playing from my library on apple music. so bizarre.

I am an embedded software engineer, I have owned few apple products, latest is an iPad pro 11 with M1.

I was hesitant to buy an iPad but I do recognize that it is a good product.

I have experienced the same issue described in this post. I use my AirPods Pro for work and learn, so I switch them between a PC, my Android phone and iPad, this is the scenario.

Steps to reproduce the issue (for Apple software engineers):

1) iPad is previously paired with AirPods, also a second device is paired previously.

2) iPad is in sleep mode (closed inside a magnetic case) nobody is using it and nobody wants to use it.

3) I want to use my AirPods with my second device, i.e. my Android phone, so I take the AirPods out of it's charging box, before the first one reach my ear I ca already hear the music.

4) Why iPad turns ON the Apple Music app automatically and starts playing music? in my case the U2 free album.

iPad is in sleep mode and I don't want to use it, why iPad software wrongly assumes that I want to use it and that I want to listen to music?

There are enough clues, info and claims in this post to easily reproduce and fix this issue.

These are the kind of things that I do not like about apple products.