music just starts playing automatically on my iPhone

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.

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

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.

So why does this happen with headphones. I will be listening to an audiobook, have to pause it for a bit and then click my airpods to resume the audiobook but apple music starts up instead? Very frustrating.

We have a shower with built in bluetooth speakers. My daughter’s iphone automatically turns on music (Spotify) full volume around 5.00 AM every day.

This is slowly turning the whole family crazy.

Anybody has a solution besides throwing the iphone out of the window or cutting the power to the shower?

It plays over top of my meditation app even though I stop the song and close Music repeatedly. Absolutely infuriating. Found infinity symbol (autoplay) through directions here and it was not on. Went to Settings > General > Airplay and Handoff and set Airplay to Never, turned everything off. Fingers crossed.

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.

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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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

I am having the same problem with my Iphone 14Pro. The phone has been automatically playing songs that are not on my playlist for a long time, and now it's playing Apple Radio, and there are no options to turn it off. Best Buy ran diagnostics on it, updated the app,,,and their Geek Squad can't find the settings either.

I am beyond displeased with what Apple is doing.

Came here to say what many others have said before me. Autoplay is an infuriating feature and it needs to be binned. It comes on even when: Autoplay is toggled off in the Music App, and Handoff is toggled off in the settings. As another tortured soul said the only other method that truly works is to delete the app. So that‘s that for Apple Music on my phone. Good luck and good riddance.

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. 😂

Holy crow! I have been having this issue for the LONGEST TIME! I spent hours on the phone with Apple Support being told they never heard of it. I was transferred to some higher level support team who asked me to record when the music plays without the app active. I sent three or for but never heard back so stopped. It’s like I’m forced to listen to the app when any Bluetooth device is connected. It’s still happening. Apple Music is shut down and anytime Bluetooth kicks in, it turns itself on! Always!!!! I

I ~do not~ know how to solve the problem where music plays automatically, but I have noticed that my car does it when my phone connects. It’s the car doing it. I believe it’s downloading the list of songs and playing from its list.

As for the missing AutoPlay button …

from https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208383:

“Autoplay is available only if you subscribe to Apple Music.”

Thanks Apple.

FleshwoundsInIthaca wrote:

Wrong. The problem is with iPhone because the same thing happens with directly connected headphones.

If you read my post and the links provided, you would see that it is specific to Bluetooth connections in a vehicle. You have provided no information to refute that. For your situation it may be useful to include the manufacturer of the headphones and if the music starts from Apple Music, Spotify, or Pandora along with the connection type. It would also be helpful to provide any troubleshooting steps that you have already done:

• Did you test with another phone manufacturer to conclude it only happens on iPhone?
• Did you try the AutoPlay setting on Apple Music?
• Do you use any other music app or is it only Apple Music?

I don't have a wired set of headphones to test on my own device, but I'm sure others will be able to provide more insight. It may be best to start a new question as the responses are starting to stray off topic being wired/wireless and headphone/ car audio.