Apple Music randomly plays when I remove AirPods

Same problem! But it only started today on my Macbook, I've been using airpods 2 for a couple of years. I was watching youtube, removed my airpods and woke up everybody in the middle of the night because Apple Music started playing :(

This happens to me as well, but not just Apple Music, sometimes it starts playing from a Google Chrome tab where I paused a video on YouTube or something. VERY annoying and interruptive. @Apple - Please identify root cause and share a fix.

It is annoying, but I am 99% convinced that it's directly related to the pods picking up a hard snapping sound: if I close the case with a snap, music almost always plays (from what appears to be the most accessible source: Spotify, Apple Music; an open tab); if I close it gently, 100% it never plays. Although it did start when I slammed a car door the other day..... So yes, major headache and they should fix it, but also a pretty easy workaround. Good luck!

I have this exact same issue with my iPhone 13 and iPad with my AirPods Pro. I use Apple Music but not when the issue happens. When I take my AirPods out after using them to play YouTube or something similar and put them in the case Apple Music will start playing a song from the phone speakers I had been listening to, sometimes weeks ago. I have tried to force closing Apple Music to see if that works but that is really a work around, not a solution.

I use my airpods pro for noise reduction, so I often wear them without playing any audio. But EVERY time I remove them, my iPhone begins playing whatever I was last listening to, even if that had been days ago and I had closed that app. I haven't tried turning off ear detection, nor am I going to, because I want that functionality. I just don't want the iPhone to start playing anything at any time unless I tell it to start playing. That seems a reasonable request.

Same thing for me. It has happened whether I have Apple Music subscription or not (I've had it on and off). When I don't have Apple Music subscription, it plays a music on the phone locally.

iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 16.3.1

AirPods Pro (Gen 1), model A2084, firmware 5E135

So, Apple won't like this answer but it works and maybe when they realize this is a work around that will fix MUSIC from automatically launching and playing, they will do something about it finally…

The issue is that the touch buttons are way too sensitive, and ultimately they will just start playing MUSIC automatically every time you hit the switch, there is no way to turn this off in the setting from what I can see, Doing a slow touch setting under the sensor controls seems to help a little, Turning of ear detection doesn't work either.

The only thing that does is....

Delete the MUSIC app from the phone, I literally never use it and have no plans to in the future, streaming is fine.

By doing this the music app will not be launched and play every time you accidentally touch the button and if no media app was recently exited nothing will happen at all...

A very unfortunate way to have to solve this but it is solved!

You're Welcome, maybe get on this one!

I'm honestly very disappointed in the actually user experience from the Airpod Pro's 2, thats rare Apple, do better.

Cheers.

And this problem is getting worse with each new iOS update. As does the performance of my HomePod and HomePod minis with their bursts of random music and songs stopping with 1 second left (extremely jarring). When this generation of my Apple devices dies in the next year or two (as they tend to do), I will be seriously seeking out non-Apple solutions. I may have to learn Linux but I will not keep giving Apple my money as their products get worse and worse.

Hmm it seems that you don’t use Apple Music you said, you could delete Apple Music and remove that from your Apple one subscription. As for anyone using Apple Music intentionally I can’t really come up with a solution for you.

That’s unusual, the touch buttons you talk of are force sensors which require a squeeze to activate the button same as the AirPods 3rd Generation, and the force sensors do NOT detect anything if the skin detector hasn’t been triggered. These touch sensors are only on AirPods 1st and 2nd Gen.

I tried this but for some reason it doesn’t randomly play music when I take the AirPods out alone but turns on randomly when in a group setting. It’s so weird and it was embarrassing when it happened.

I found a way to stop the AirPods from playing music when you pinch the switch.

open Apple Music. You don’t have to sign up, just look at the bottom of the app screen. There is a shuffle and a repeat button. Touch each button to toggle until they are not highlighted. That should stop music being played even when you pinch the switch.

I was having the same issue as others on this thread. I have never used Apple Music and have not subscribed, but would get music playing when I pinched the switch. I’m guessing the default for Apple Music is a U2 album with shuffle and repeat turned on.

worked for me. Hope it works for you.

This happens about 20% of the time when I'm listening to a podcast with Overcast. I take my AirPods out of my ears and put them in the case. Because I have the volume turned all the way down on my iPhone, I don't notice that it's continuing to play, and I later find all my podcasts are marked as "played".

Very frustrating.

my music immediately switches devices and plays on my iPhone whenever I turn off my car or place my AirPods Pro 2nd gen in the case and close the lid. I hate this. When I turn off the device it was playing on the music should stop. It should absolutely never start playing on my phone.

I work as a Graphic Designer, I also do video. Ear buds in, apple music starts blasting, tap ear or take out one, again, Apple Music opens a window and starts playing. This happens repeatedly while I'm working on video or projects. PLEASE FIX APPLE!!