Apple Music randomly plays when I remove AirPods

This issue has been an ongoing one for me. Occasionally — not always but just often enough to be a hassle — my iPhone starts playing Apple Music when I remove my AirPods Pro.


This started a number of years ago. At the time, I never even used Apple Music. One day, I said “Hey Siri, play some jazz.” And jazz music started playing via Apple Music. But ever since then, I’ll take out my AirPods after watching YouTube or playing a game or something, and then my phone starts playing jazz via Apple Music — an app I never intentionally use.


Recently I subscribed to Apple One, which includes Apple Music, and the frequency of the random playing has increased. I casually browsed Apple Music once, and now when I remove my AirPods, my phone starts playing random songs related to the ones I browsed through.


In short, I don’t want my phone to play ANYTHING after I take out my AirPods, much less random songs from an app I don’t actively use.

iPhone 13 Pro

Posted on Jun 11, 2022 5:41 AM

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May 29, 2024 3:49 PM in response to Spek1

Beyond the annoyance, this is becoming interesting. Why would Apple, a company with a reputation of producing top of the line technology, ignore the complaints of many consumers about an issue that would seem to be an easy fix? And to let this go on for literally YEARS? I'm wondering if they think that giving us the ability to turn off this annoying feature would result in many users not signing up for extra streaming services? That's the only explanation that I've been able to come up with. Anybody got any other conspiracy theories?

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