How to stop Apple music from playing automatically on my car

All right, so using a version of this method is actually working best for me. I had posted a previous method where the automation simply pauses the music, but I would still get a random play of music once the car connected.

I accutally run two automations:

1 - Play "4'33" (blank track) early in the morning (before my commute) to prime the track:

2- Play "4'33" (blank track) any time the car connects to BT:

Thanks for the suggestion, @aiken1961!

I think I found a way to get this shortcut to work: Add a 2 second "wait" action before the "pause" action. That helps make sure the pause happens after the play signal sent from the car. So far it seems to work, fingers crossed. You might have to adjust the wait time up and down depending on your specific situation. Good luck!

btw I'm guessing the reason Apple can't "fix" this is because the car stereo is simply sending a "play" signal just like if you pressed play on a set of earbuds or whatever. There's no way for ios to know the difference.

I was finally able to stop it by going to: Settings —> Apple Music app —> turning OFF cellular data. Hope this helps.

I have not been able to prevent the last song I’ve listened to on my iPhone 13 Pro from playing in my Subaru. Turning my phone off while driving is dangerous, so I instruct Siri to do it instead: Hey Siri, stop music. It works but it is annoying when the music comes on without prompting as I pull out of the garage.

the only two way I’ve been able to fix this issue is i delete all the downloaded music from my music folder or I delete the app entirely. It’s why I stopped subscribing to music and won’t. I’ll continue with all the other music apps instead. Youd think they’d like to keep us instead of annoy us.

Did you try this?

Go to Settings->General->AirPlay & Handoff->Set Automatically Airplay to Never?

Yep so my solution was to just delete the app; other streaming services have better algorithms in my opinion anyway.

Every time I park my car, I turn the volume down to zero. So even if I can’t turn off autoplay, the music doesn’t startle me when I pull out of my driveway.

I did it!

Only this thing worked for me -

I deleted all songs from my Apple Music library, so basically I left nothing to be played.

The only thing that worked for me was removing the apple music app from my phone. Honestly this is really dumb. Good thing I have Spotify

I solved the problem by deleting all the music off my phone.

The Shortcut does not work for me. The pause executes but then music starts again. I even tried 5 pauses. The other issue is that even if I manually pause the music, and issue any SIRI voice command the music starts again as soon as SIRI exits. I have exhausted all possibilities. The only workaround I have found is to select a multimedia source other than Bluetooth. The Navigation still comes through the speakers but not music. This is horrible that Apple is ignoring this problem. I have noticed that Apple pretty much ignores issues posted by users so I do not have much hope they will help us out. iPhone 12 and BMW X3

Did anyone out there actually get this Shortcut to work? This answer sounded so promising, but I followed these steps and it did not work. I have an iPhone 15 Pro with iOS 17.1.1 (latest version as of current date) and my car is a 2020 Jaguar I-Pace. This is the 2nd car I have owned in which I cannot use Bluetooth with my phone because of this issue. This issue is more than just annoying, pulling out of the driveway first thing in the morning and having my workout music from the day before suddenly blasting out of the speakers is dangerous. Also scares any passengers I might have in the car.

I have also read about proposed solutions for turning off autoplay inside the Music app itself. Those proposed solutions did not work either. Plus, even if the Music app does not autoplay, then the YouTube app will autoplay, or the Podcasts app, etc etc.

Considering all the features Apple releases each iOS update, Apple: please consider providing a global override in the Bluetooth settings to turn off autoplay. I've been searching for a solution to this problem for over 4 years now and still nothing.

Please Apple, listen to your users. This should be a setting on the phone, not an issue with the car manufacturer.

You have to add “Wait” command before “Pause”. Set it to a few seconds period.

I deleted Apple Music. One less thing to think about.