Hi Grace2211
Thank you for your reply. However, the automatic ear detection is enabled. I tried disabling then enabling. I've restarted the airpods; restarted the iphone; and it still transfers to playing on the iphone when i take the airpods out of my ears.
To clarify: spotify is playing from my iphone, through my airpods. I take one airpod out, the music stops, then I take the other airpod out. A couple seconds pass with the airpods out of my ears, and then the music continues playing (the same music that was playing in my airpods when i had them in my ears) from the iPhone's speaker. this is with automatic ear detection enabled.
Please help.