How to disable car autoplay on iPhone

Gotta disagree with the back half of that. (first part was spot on though, he's clueess). My problem is with the UConnect system native to certain makes. A friend has the exact same setup but uses a droid phone. He has no such autoplay issues. From what Ive researched this problem is quite common with iPhones and no one at Apple seems to want to address it. Perhaps they're pushing Apple Play being used in competing vehicles, who knows. It is a safety issue when you CANT turn off music coming from the **** phone! If you mute or pause from the vehicle console it also shuts off any navigation, messaging or phone calls. If you shut off iTunes manually it will resume play the first time nav speaks or you hang up a call. BTW, I spoke with both Apple and UConnect. They both blame the other. But the fact that autoplay also kicks on when you connect to a bluetooth speaker makes me believe UConnect has a point. This is just sloppy work from Apple. I spent too much time in my car to just ignore this. I know they dont care, but this has cost them a new iPhone sale.

Agree with you Sawzalot2. The best part was when Apple support acted like this was the first time they had heard about it (This is a problem that has been extensively reported on since 2011 in Apple's own forums). I wish Apple supported private messaging in these forums. In my case Mercedes insists that this is an Apple issue. Similar to what was mentioned, Droid phones don't have the same problem. The other insane part is the lack of a pattern. There are times when the iphone won't start autoplaying and then there are times that it does. I have NOT been able to spot a pattern. When I get in the car and turn it on, it will say "Activating Bluetooth...". At that point, there are times when it will just say "Bluetooth device paused". And then there are times when it will start blaring out music.

I would invite the geniuses at Apple, to get into a car while on a call and also trying to get Maps directions, and have the stupid iPhone start playing music.

In my case it's a Ram truck. But the same UConnect system is used in Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep vehicles as well. And no matter how many times you inquire with Apple they've never heard of it happening before. You'd think there was a shared database of such issues that they're all kept up on. Good IT practices huh. If it hasn't been addressed by now it probably wont be. And that says its intentional.

I was waiting on iOS 11 to see if that would fix it. What a joke. I cant drive in silence but at least I can send messages to colleagues as a talking unicorn. R&D dollars well spent.

Its good to share these issues among the community so users don't think its something they're doing.

Shame on Apple.

To make matters worse the geniuses at Apple decided you cannot hide completely any music you have purchased from Apple. Out of sheer desperation, I deleted ALl music on the iPhone, set cellular data for music to off. Even then it would pick one of the songs I had purchased from Apple because I am in the garage and connected to Home WiFi when I start the car. The only solution that worked was to delete the music app.

The other annoying part is how it picks the same ******* song.

I personally am fed up with the issue. I have lodged a complaint with Apple and will help in all ways possible to fix the issue. Until I see proof that Apple will fix this problem I have decided not to upgrade and pay Apple another dime. I have stayed away from 3 generations of iPhones. If they don’t fix it this time around, I am kicking Apple completely out of my household.

It‘s a shame, Apple. And for those who tried to help providing car and car-audio brands and claiming it‘s an incompatibility or so with iphone and that particular device: no, it is not. Even with apple earplugs it is the same.

Uninstalling solves the problem. Thanks Apple. Thanks for messing up a perfectly fine app.

I have just upgraded my 5S to an 8 and restored this from my iCloud backup.

Im now back to square one with my iTunes playing every time I connect it via USB to my Parrot MKi 9100.

Ive checked the settings and the restore did indeed set the Car Play Restriction so why doesnt my new phone behave the same as the old one and before I get a reply from an Apple idiot saying its not the phone, let me tell yo IT IS THE PHONE.

dac-username wrote:

It is almost 2018 and the issue still exists. Apple refuses to open a ticket and escalate to developers without me resetting the iphone. They need to "isolate the issue". Shame on you, apple.

That's because IT'S NOT A PROBLEM WITH THE PHONE. It's a problem with the head unit in your car.

When this happens in many cars (my VW, my brother's Prius, this thread's poster's Subaru, I'm sure many others), I think we can say that it is APPLE, as the tech company, that should find a solution to this problem. It's not only an inconvenience — it's a safety hazard when music starts blaring unexpectedly as you pull out of a parking lot or driveway, etc. I know many people who have simply stopped playing their stereo at all in their cars, losing hands-free Google or Apple Maps audio directions, due to this. Now they're staring at their phones for directions again. I'm sick of this he-said-she-said. We know the car companies aren't going to change it. Tech changes too fast for them. How often do we all update our car software? Rarely if ever. Software in phones, on the other hand, changes monthly. Apple needs to make a solution.

I heard you. While you may want to blame something else, the problem still is a problem. It would be nice for apple to solve it to its customers. On android, there is an app that intercepts that 'play' signal and everybody is happy. Give me a checkbox in settings, will you?

Oh, by the way, how is it NOT an apple's fault in a scenario where there is no active player app open? No Music, no Podcasts, no Audiobooks? Nothing is open, forcefully removed from the "Recent Apps" screen, and yet apple decides to play something??? How is that not a bug??? Maybe apple should understand in this case that I do not want to play anything, and I am connecting my phone to my car to have a hands-free ability, and ONLY hands-free ability. Once I decide to play something, I will open a corresponding app, and in that case, maybe, I would be OK with auto play UNTIL I close the app.

livinginaboxers wrote:

When this happens in many cars (my VW, my brother's Prius, this thread's poster's Subaru, I'm sure many others)

And the behavior does NOT happen in many more cars. Kia, Hyundai, Ford, Honda, the list goes on. The phone is responding to a command from the head unit to begin playback. If there was no active audio player running on the device waiting to be revived, it just launches playback from the default app.

The only "solution" Apple could implement would be to disable the feature that lets you control playback from the head unit in your car.

langstro wrote:

Every time a new iOS comes out, the always advertise hundreds of new features, but they never come out with the option to "disable auto-play", ****

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That's because "auto-play" is NOT a function of the phone. It's being controlled by the head unit in your car.

I wish you were right, but since autoplay also plays when i plug a headphone

in it cannot be a „ headunit issue“. It also should be natural for smartphones from high price market to address that kind of a problem as conveniently possible. So stop blaming and start programming. The have a shrug attitude of some frequent posters here is highly questionable.

I last commented on this thread in 2015, somehow I suddenly get updates on this thread.

To KiltedJIm - I notice you indefatigably maintain that somehow this is the problem of the headunit of the car, inspite of so many people mentioning this problem they are facing.

My car is a 2009 model Ford Mondeo - which does not even support A2DP streaming of music from phone over Bluetooth. Why on earth is it sending a signal to the phone to play music? It is the phone which detects getting connected to Bluetooth and plays the music automatically. In my case I don't get to hear any music, but it plays silently all the time - if I don't notice in time and shut it off, I end up with a half dead battery after a 3 hour drive - many of my commutes.

Regarding the problem itself, I am resigned to the fact that Apple won't do anything about it, and I always charge my phone on the go, and try to remember to shut down the music player as soon as I start driving, I am not holding my breath waiting for a solution. I just don't understand why someone would insist there is no problem in the first place.

Problem is so ______ irritating/enraging. Two cars and three phones later, this problem still exists.

So, in logic/garage band or whatever.... create a song with silence, however long you like.

Make sure to name it something that will precede their code that decides to pick the same **** song every single time a connection or phone state changes.

In my case, it’s AAPLE BLOWS ______