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music just starts playing automatically on my iPhone

iPhone 13 Pro Max running iOS 17.0.3 - not subscribed to Apple Music.


Frequently, when the phone is linked to some source like home pod mini or CarPlay or a speaker or something, it just spontaneously decides to start playing music l, usually starting alphabetically by the title of the song.


I have searched online and found suggestions like this one https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/stop-apple-music-from-automatically-playing#


which says:


How to disable Autoplay in Apple Music is explained here and applies to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch:

  1. Select a song in the Music app on your iPhone or iPad.
  2. After clicking on the mini player, tap on "up next"and look for the Autoplay icon (the infinity symbol).
  3. To turn off the Autoplay feature when it is turned on, tap the Autoplay icon.
  4. The Autoplay playlist should instantly disappear if the process is successful, and Apple Music will stop playing music on its own.


but when I try to follow these directions I get stuck at step 3 because I cannot find any autoplay infinity symbol icon that can be turned off.


help! This is really annoying. I hate it when my devices decide to do things without my asking it to.


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iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 17

Posted on Nov 12, 2023 4:24 PM

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Posted on Jan 27, 2024 2:15 PM

This certainly seems to be an intentional act by Apple to force us to listen to Apple Music rather than their competitors. No auto play icon on my iphone14promax. This is beyond irritating, frustrating and insulting for Apple to do this. I am getting sick of their efforts to control and monopolize.

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Feb 21, 2024 9:31 AM in response to joefiesta

joefiesta wrote:

what in the world is rude about Mac Jim's reply?

I think it was just a misunderstanding of my post. There was no negative tone that was intended as we are all users helping others. While this thread has gone many different directions, the fact that music autoplays when connected to a vehicle with Bluetooth has happened ever since Bluetooth audio became available in the car. This is true of any device. If the vehicle does not have a way to play/pause bluetooth audio, then the device must play it to be hands-free, otherwise you would need to play/pause music on your device which does not make it hands-free. It all depends on the vehicle and with most you can change the input to be AM/FM instead of bluetooth audio and it is not a problem.

Feb 26, 2024 9:14 AM in response to —AM

Okay—this worked for me, but not unfortunately, until I had deleted the Music app (which didn’t fix the problem anyway).

This problem was connected to my AirPods. I had connected them to my iPad a couple days ago instead of my iPhone phone (which I usually use with my AirPods). It wasn’t until I took the AirPods out of my ears, that I realized that the music was coming through my iPad, not my phone. It was an easy fix to turn the music off on my iPad.

Problem solved. Hope this helps somebody.

Mar 21, 2024 3:04 PM in response to —AM

You’d think apple would finally do something about this! It’s been the same on all iPhones and it’s horrible.

I disabled “hand off” and it’ll still automatically play in my car.

it’s one of the most irritating IPhone features. Instead of adding 50 minor fixes each month, they should focus on the items pepper hate about the phone.

Mar 22, 2024 9:32 AM in response to Mac Jim ID

Jim your defenses of Apple are for naught. Apple Music is programmed to open automatically and there is no way to stop it short of deleting it. After the better part of a decade of this super annoying non-addressable issue by the user, I am just fine with my decision to determine that my Apple Music purchases are a loss and delete it. I do not have these issues anymore and use several apps for music when I want them, which is what everyone that originally landed on this page was looking for with Apple Music. The answer is to delete Apple Music

Mar 25, 2024 12:38 PM in response to —AM

My iPad would just start playing iTunes at random times. It would be in my purse - in its cover so there was no accidental touching of the device's screen - and it would just start belting out an iTune. This would happen when I was at the checkout at a store, when I was talking to a client at work, when I was at a pharmacy, and on and on. Each time I would dig the iPad out of my purse, open the cover, turn off the iTune player, swipe the iPad to get out of the iTune mode altogether - and it would just start up on its own yet again.


I tried all the options people mentioned on this site. There was no infinity icon on my iPad.


Finally I just deleted the iTunes icon. I lost all the music I liked to play, but hey it was worth it.

Apr 19, 2024 6:56 PM in response to JohnGinsberg

I might have been able to disable Music from playing by following other people’s advice, but I followed your suggestion and that did the trick. Thank you!


How annoying it was to turn my car on and have it play some random tune in the Music app - even though that app wasn’t running in the foreground where I could stop the song. Apple has a huge company ego. They do have some good products, but if they keep doing stuff like this they will become the company we all remember, but us no longer in business.

Apr 27, 2024 7:28 PM in response to —AM

I am so over this auto-launch apple music. I am not subscribe to this service nor do I want to. Every time I'm working on something else and click the "enter" key, this launches. It's annoying and I can't understand that will all the technological advancements Apple has achieved, they can's seem to set the system to prevent this from happening. I know there are some people who may like this, but as many complaint I've read, I can't comprehend why this problem still exists. Most of the responses indicate that you have "go into" apple play in order to turn it off. What's the remedy for those who do not want to subscribe to apple music. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez fix this.


:-(




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Apr 28, 2024 10:06 AM in response to —AM

Apple created the music space beyond Sony, but Jobs is gone. The vision of excitement of Apple being a part of my future for music is gone simply because of this. They force Apple Music to open on purpose. It’s annoying AF and for a decade plus I deleted my library of purchased music and couldn’t be happier. Once you delete Apple Music it’s all good

Jun 18, 2024 1:23 PM in response to Mac Jim ID

I followed these lovely steps and it didn’t offer me a chance to “add action” after I hit next. I literally just resubscribed to Apple Music, looks like I’ll be cancelling it once more and deleting the app again. I really thought they would have fixed it by now, but I guess this is the user experience Apple wants us to have: an Apple Music free one. 😂

music just starts playing automatically on my iPhone

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