Apple music always plays the same song at the top of your songlist every single time.

If you go to Shortcuts and select Automation, you can set an automation 'when carplay connects' to play music from a specific playlist, or radio station, podcast, audiobook or whatever. It looks like the start song is the same, but you can set it to shuffle to go to a random song from there. Seems to work for me, but no promises!

Hello Aysa1337,

We completely understand the issue you're describing. Auto-play functionality is not an iPhone feature. We've heard reports that in some cases auto-play with resume the last song that was played, some will start with the first song in the library, and others will not auto-play at all.

This is usually caused by how your car request to play music from the connected device. Since this isn't a current feature of iPhone, feedback is your best option. If you'd like to provide feedback to Apple or request a feature, you can do that, but you'll want to so do it in the right place.

As this is the Apple Support Community, a user-to-user support forum, you'll want to submit feedback directly to Apple, here: Product Feedback - Apple

Alternatively, you can try to contact your car manufacturer for more help or to see if there are settings you can change on your car's radio.

Thanks.

I don't have a solution to the problem, but I have a suggestion to have a different song to play. Search on Music for a song titled something like "A a a a a a...". There are several. They are usually 10 minutes of silence so you have time to find something before you hear the same song again for the millionth time (mine was A-Punk by Vampire Weekend).

A few comments up is the name of a song you can download for free. It’s 10 minutes of silence. It’s come in handy the last month. I can’t offer any other solution but that song has been downloaded thousands of times. I know ideally Apple would fix but I’m not holding my breath.

You’re better off creating a playlist of your favourites so you can control what is played.

How to create a playlist in the Apple Music app - Apple Support

Hello Aysa1337,

If your device is automatically playing music when you connect it to your car, you'll need to reach out to your car manufacturer for help. CarPlay and Bluetooth on iPhone do not have auto-play features to turn off or on. This is usually caused by your device (in this case, your car) requesting to play music when your iPhone is connected.

If you'd like to provide feedback or request that Apple make auto-play features, you can do that here: Product Feedback - Apple

Thanks.

Seriously thought I was the only one .. My 2023 Apple Music Replay said my top song was A$AP Forever smh I think my only solution is to delete it and if I ever actually want to hear it, which will probably be never (sorry A$AP), I'll just have to search it up.

My wife started having this problem when she pauses Audible, change headphones, still sees Audible paused on the Lock Screen, hits resume on the headphone, and iOS starts playing the first song in her library.

Just started doing this. Seems like a bug. Especially since there is an uptick of reports lately.

She uses newer Apple made Beats headphones.

I have this same issue. It's so annoying. A-Punk by Vampire Weekend for me too. Why oh Why does the iPhone work this way? Clearly 100's of us have this issue, and we all don't have the same car or car stereo, it's a common problem with the iPhone and/or the iOS music app.

I can't believe the best solution offered is to put a song called "A a a a a a a" into my iTunes music library. C'mon Apple, you can do better.

I don't understand the "this isn't an Apple feature" comment - the way car audio systems have worked forever (since the 1950s when we only had AM radio) is that whatever is going on when you turn the car off starts up again when you turn the car on. AM, FM, 8-track, cassette, CD, MP3, bluetooth, etc. This is fine with me. Clearly when the car and the iPhone reconnect, the iPhone is doing something terribly wonky.

I think the iPhone should just resume playing what it had been playing, continue with the same playlist or shuffle, etc. That would be a seemless experience as you move from car to earbuds and back into the car....and of course I should walk into my house and the playing picks up right where it was.

This is the most annoying thing ever with ITunes! If I have to hear “About a Girl” by Nirvana one more time!!!

So I also have this issue and it seems to be an apple music thing since I'm 99% certain, none of us have the same model/make of car. Suggesting that we reach out to the car manufacturer seems more a "we have no idea and we're not going to look into it" answer. Hoping for a more clear answer. will keep looking.

I obviously am here because I have the same issue and I would like to see an answer to turn it off completely because turning off auto play does not solve my issue. It will automatically play a song when plugged in even when turned off and my only guess as to why is because it pads Apple Music stats for plays. It is psychological torture. About to switch to Spotify

Try “A Holly Jolly Christmas” year round