Turn off Pandora??

You say "I have tried this."

It's not clear what you have tried.

Several things have been discussed and if you could make things clearer, it would make it easier to reply to your problem.

Gary

Just wanted to say thanks to Paul from Pittsburgh for the solution. I use Pandora for commuting into work, and want to make sure it's off for sure. I am migrating from Blackberry, and Pandora always had a nice "Shut Down Pandora" menu item so you knew it was off.

The pause thing works but there is always a possiblity that you unpause it by mistake. The last thing I need is to head into a meeting and have "BABY YOU'RE ALL THAT I WANT" blaring in front of my bosses lol.

This actually helped me A GREAT DEAL! I could not understand or get it to work with the other posting on this forum. Thank You!

Thanks, I tried Paul's solution and it worked thanks a bunch!

Paul, nice consice answer. The other post from Mr C UK, while mostly correct, did lack the one detail of getting off of the Pandora app page (back home) before you double tap. Most folks, like me who come here asking for help really do appreciate EXACT instructions as you presented. One of the biggest pitfalls that techys make when trying to teach is that they assume folks no more than they do. Like the 5 year old that tries to teach the 1 year old to run before he really knows how to walk. Thank you!

Thanks so much for the clear explaination.

How do I actually get ride of the app??? Like stop paying for it if I never even use it because I'm stationed in Korea???

By any chance has this changed in later iOS versions? I am at iOS 9.1, and when I follow the instructions that work for others, I never get the jiggle for Pandora, so I cannot turn it off.

Gardoglee,

What are you trying to do?

If you want to pause music, use pause button in Pandora app, or use pause button on lock screen, or slide up from bottom of screen and use pause button there.

If you want to stop the Pandora program (or any program) so you cannot accidentally start music, double click the home button, swipe sideways until the Pandora app shows up, and slide the app up until it disappears.

If you no longer want the Pandora program (or any non-apple app), find the icon on your home screen or in a folder, touch and hold the Pandora icon until it jiggles on screen. A small x will appear in the upper left corner of the icon. Click the icon and you can delete the app.

Gary

What I am trying to do is the second option you dscribe, which is to stop Pandora and unload it from memory. What I had been doing for some time is what you describe, that is to double click the one touch button, find Pandora, and swipe it up and off the list. That was working until the most recent iOS upgrade. Since the last upgrade when I do that same motion now, the Pandora app slides away and seems to be turned off (music stops playing over bluetooth, app no longer shows when one touch button is double clicked). However, if I leave my phone for a period and the screen blanks, and then I come back to my phone and push either the power or one touch buttons to activate th screen, the Pandora player controls are displayed at the top of my screen. If I watch the screen for a while to see what happns, the mini-control indicates that songs are being played. If I use the one touch button fingerprint recognition to unlock my screen, the first thing I see is the Pandora app displaying an album cover, as if a song is playing.

In other words, what seemed to turn off and unload Pandora before now seems to only suppress the display, but the app is till running in background, or the app is reloading itself.

Do you actually hear it playing, or only see the controls on the screen? Normally the screen will show the last app that was playing, even if it is not longer running.

Yep. Clearly you have found an iOS bug. Similar thing happens with other music playing apps.

Gary

I do not hear the music. However, the control I see is not the typical scren one sees if Pandora was the last app used, but rather their mini-control. Also, that shows even when I have used multiple other apps on the phone after I shut down Pandora before blanking the screen or leaving the phone sit. I can for example have used Safari, mail and notes, as I did earlier this evening after shutting off Pandora. When I returned to the phone I saw the Pandora mini-control.

One of my concerns is, if Pandora is not shutting down, or can restart itself at will, what other apps might also be doing similar things?

Cannot turn off pando

Open the app. Press the HOME button. Wait a second, then double-press the HOME button. Flick the Pandora screen image up.