How to disable car autoplay on iPhone

It's in settings/general scrool down and you will see it.

No. It's not. There is no such setting.

What OS are you using? Is it part of a subgroup? I dont see it anywhere.

Go in to settings

Select select general if you scroll you should see restrictions

I don't know if that will fix it but that's where it is.

No. It is NOT. There is NO SUCH SETTING.

Ummm, I have no issues with my Apple EarPods, they work absolutely fine.

EVERYONE who reads this forum should do this!

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.

Ford Mondeo too. Actually, it is difficult to hear audio from anything that is not Music from Apple.

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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It's now late 2017 and this problem still exists, much to the chagrin of all those naysayers in these apple threads that go on about how it's time to move on or these are old problems. Old problems that still exist and still bug people.

For me, I have iTunes Match with mobile data turned OFF and no music downloaded to the phone.

When I plug in the phone VIA lightning to the usb on the car's head unit (I've tried sony, pioneer, some junky chinese brands, fusion, etc) the phone will:

1. Stop the audio that I am listening to, if it's not in the music app (e.g. a podcast app, a streaming radio app, a cloud music player like soundcloud, a music production app).
2. Play a song from my iTunes library. I thought it was the first song alphabetically, but it's not always the same. I think it's semi random.
3. If I bring up the controls from the bottom of the screen, the music player is in a STOPPED state (with music playing) and reports the name of the App that it stopped (e.g. SoundCloud).
4. If I then press the PLAY button, the background song stops, then whatever I was listening to in my app starts playing again.

So getting into the car is a quick jiggle between turning the car on, plugging in the phone and taking off my headphones, then jabbing buttons I shouldn't have to jab in order to continue listening to my podcasts or audiobooks or whatever. This is crazy.

The thing I don't get is WHERE does it get the song? It just seems to ignore my "don't use mobile data" setting for iTunes Match and grab something and start playing it. I keep having to go into settings then itunes then deleting the downloaded songs again. What is going on, Apple?

The only solution I have found is to turn the audio off in my car. This way the phone connection is still on, the bluetooth is still on but the audio is off, this means my music / books don't start automatically.

To follow up on this however, that would be nice to have a proper option somewhere. Also the car bluetooth automatically steal the connection of any connected headset which is annoying, we should be give the option to prompt for choice...

I found the solution!!!

It's 2017 and this happened to me, a Mazda CX-5 and upon entering the vehicle and after EVERY voice command, it would auto play music. Including if I said "turn music off" it would say okay and then it would turn right back on. I browsed all of the forums and nothing. Super frustrating!! So what did I do?

After having an iPhone since inception, without deviation, I got the Google Pixel and said screw you Apple and now I no longer have to deal with that issue and a crappy battery and Siri being inferior and, and , and . . .

Sadly, my girl went with the 7 (we both had the 6) and the Pixel blows it away, she comes home and her phone is dead or dying, mine doesn't need a charge until the next day and in 15 minutes it's charged for 7 hours.

I miss Steve Jobs but my phone is efficient and fun again.

How is this a solution when doing so disables the ability to get directions, make calls, send and receive messages, and listen to music? But then I switched to the Pixel and no longer have this issue.

1230 people have the same question, I guess that's not enough to warrant a fix, but I traded in the iPhone for the Pixel and have zero issues now, so it's absolutely an iPhone problem. Best of luck to you!