How to stop Apple music from playing automatically on my car

Same, I just gave up. This is such a small but big issue at the same time. Idk why this hasn’t been solved with a a simple software update.

I’ve found two solutions so far:

1. turn off Bluetooth audio in car settings so that only phone calls go through - this does mean I need to use phone loudspeaker for Google maps though and may need to use another modality (e.g. sd card) for music
2. manually ensure that the radio is playing whenever I turn on my car, rather than my phone audio

Stennyak wrote:

I finally found a solution that WORKS every time after reading countless articles on this topic:

Delete the Music app from your iPhone and listen to music through Spotify or some other app.

Someday if Apple decides to fix this “feature,” I’ll consider going back to iOS Music.

for now, I just deleted the app entirely and that fixed the issue. I am so happy.

Have you confirmed this by listening to Spotify, then stopping the music and connecting to your car. There are several articles on the internet that say Spotify automatically plays when connected to the car. The solutions in this Spotify support article did not seem to help users either. The issue seems to still be a problem for Spotify as well since last month.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/iOS-iPhone-iPad/Spotify-Automatically-playing-in-car/td-p/5409951

Since some vehicles do not have the ability to play/pause Bluetooth music, it will automatically play when connected to the car. If it did not do this, then when you selected Bluetooth for the audio source on the stereo, there would be no music playing and you would also have to manually tap play on your phone as well.

You can create a Shortcut to pause the music when connected to your car's bluetooth:

• Open Shortcuts app
• Tap Automation on the bottom
• Tap "Create Personal Automation"
• Tap "Bluetooth"
• Tap "Choose" under Device and select your car
• Tap "Done"
• Tap "Next"
• Tap "Add Action"
• Tap "Media"
• Scroll down to the Playback section and tap "Play/Pause"
• Tap "Play/Pause" on the top of this screen and choose "Pause"
• Tap "Next"
• Tap "Done"

There is also the additional option on iOS 17 to switch off Notify to run so it will run automatically. You will have to manually start your Music from the phone after connecting to your car as the stereo will not automatically start playing it when you choose Bluetooth as the music source.