How do I stop Apple Music from launching whenever I connect a Bluetooth headset to my MacBook?

I use a bluetooth headset for video calls on video conferencing software.


Whenever I end a meeting with my Bluetooth headset connected, Apple Music launches and tries to onboard me. My MacBook is a work machine and I don't want to launch Apple Music at the end of a meeting.


How can I stop this unwanted behaviour?


I've read other questions and understand Apple Music is a required element of macOS, so cannot be uninstalled. How can Apple Music be configured to not start automatically whenever macOS detects a bluetooth headset is connected?

MacBook Pro 14″

Posted on Jul 18, 2023 7:45 PM

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Posted on Apr 15, 2024 12:51 AM

@Random_dude_with_a_mac: Unfortunately you solution didn't survive restarts on my M2 Air on Ventura. It did stop the autolaunch each time I executed the steps, but reverted to the annoying default behaviour after restart.


One thing may be different in my case is that I never authorized Music, so that probably impacts the persistence of the settings? They probably revert to default on restart.


Fix for me was to install noTunes from the gitub - trombonez - noTunes repository. It works great, just have to add it to System Settings>General>Login Items to get it to run on every login.


Pretty strange using a Microsoft product (github) to fix untoward behaviour in macOS! Of course, there are many other such fixes for macOS on github.

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