How to disable car autoplay on iPhone

Meg St._Clair wrote: "I don't have that problem with Apple Music. It has never "auto played" anything for me"

Then your contribution isn't necessary or relevant here. This issue has been reported by many users in this thread, and we need contribution from those who have experienced this problem.

Thank you.

I recently got an Alpine head unit to replace the ancient factory unit in my car, which failed. I have noticed that this problem happens with any audio program. In my case, if I were in the midst of playing audio through any of the following apps, audio automatically resumes when as soon as the iPhone 5s pairs with the Alpine unit: Music, Podcasts, Downcast, TuneIn Radio, KCRW and the di.fm apps.

The major problem is that the internet apps (TuneIn, KCRW, di.fm) use the cellular network. So, huge chunks of my monthly 2 gigabyte limit are being eaten away if I don't catch the app right away. What's even worse is that apps like TuneIn will continue to buffer music if you just pause playback. So, I have to kill the app or to go into the app and press the stop square, instead of the pause button. (In this regard, the di.fm apps get it right. The pause button halts streaming, period. No buffering.)

This is infuriating because these software bugs are preventing me from doing the things that I want to do with my phone: check email, browse, send pictures to friends. These are the things for which I need the cellular network.

The solution so far has been to deny access to the cellular network to all of these streaming apps, and to turn off Background App Refresh to most of the apps. My data usage is now somewhat close to normal, but this software bug has taken too much of my time.

Neither the phone nor the stereo offer the option of stopping bluetooth autoplay. At least one of these parties needs to act.

I contacted Alpine about this problem. Here is their response:

The only way to stop it is by turning the Alpine receiver to FM tuner source before you get off of the vehicle.

Thank you

Alpine Electronics of America, Inc. Customer Support

At this point this seem to be a "feature" or a "bug" of the Bluetooth specifications. I'm willing to bet that the majority of people view this as a bug. I certainly do.

I hope Apple introduces a feature to fix this "feature" of Bluetooth.

For everybody who has posted here...please go here and post a complaint and feedback regarding this issue -- if you haven't already. No solution found so far -- and I'm on IOS 9.0.1...it's been a while!

https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Ended my 5 year association with Android and got me the iPhone 6s on 25th September.

Phone is great, but still annoying to find that it autoplays on bluetooth. My car doesn't even support A2DP streaming, so I do not even realise most of the time that the music has turned itself on. (Ford Mondeo 2009 model)

Surprising to find this thread dating back form 2011 onwards, an issue that has been around for so long and still not fixed? No hope then?

I have sent a bug feedback using a link someone provided here, but now I am not sure it is of much use, when the problem has been around for so long.

A phone that costs a fortune still has annoying bits in it.

Just adding my voice to the chorus of people who have been complaining about this for years. Can't believe iOS9 didn't address it. Apple could be responsible for killing people if this isn't addressed. APPLE: THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE, NOT A CONVENIENCE ISSUE. (Excuse the all-caps.)

Using bluetooth in my car for handsfree calls. Apple Music comes on with a random song from my collection, even when the Music app is closed, every time I enter the car, or end a phone call. Then I have to unlock the phone, open the app, and close the app again, to get it to stop. (While DRIVING of course). Then, as soon as I get out of and back in my car, or, have a call end while driving, the zombie Music returns to startle me with more music at full volume.

FYI, I'm driving a VW with standard stereo. However I experienced the same issue in my brother's Prius, as well as in a Ford rental car. It may not happen in every vehicle but it's clearly Apple's problem.

EVERYONE needs to give feedback to http://www.apple.com/feedback/

It's the only way for developers to add a "Disable Auto Play" option and they probably won't do it unless we bombard them with requests.

This has been ******* me off for years. Same exact problem as you. I've tried everything including removing all my Music from the device yet it still streams from iCloud. Then I turned use cellular data for music off and it still manages to play one song. The SAME song every time.

And it even sometimes starts autoplaying WHILE I'm on a phone call. In the middle of my call I hear music playing and have to force close the music app. Ridiculous.

EVERYONE needs to give feedback to http://www.apple.com/feedback/

It's the only way for developers to add a "Disable Auto Play" option and they probably won't do it unless we bombard them with requests.

Go into Settings-General-Restrictions and turn off CarPlay.

I think this problem has taken 5 years off my life from stress. I've had my car stereo over 5 years now and every morning I am tortured with the song Albatross, because it's the first song in my list alphabetically... Oh how I have come to loathe that song!!! Because apparently apple decides for me that it's the only song I like listening to while driving the kids to school in the morning. When you plug in the phone, you can bet Albatross will start playing, as it always does. Come on, Apple, you can't even solve this one simple problem? How can we expect any innovation from a company that can't even get a simple autoplay setting implemented correctly?

And please. Let us have some peace and quiet when we get into our cars in the morning. PLEASE

PS... Cancelling our Apple Music subscription if this isn't fixed in the next update.

"Go into Settings-General-Restrictions and turn off CarPlay."

This is one of those dopey "Just turn off Carplay" comments that helps NO ONE in this situation.

Not a solution, but to stop hearing the same song every time just turn on shuffle. You'll be annoyed with a different song next time!

And CarPlay is a completely different thing that has nothing to do with this problem.

I'm posting this again because it's so important:

EVERYONE needs to give feedback to http://www.apple.com/feedback/

It's the only way for developers to add a "Disable Auto Play" option and they probably won't do it unless we bombard them with requests.

Does this help anyone?

http://m.imore.com/how-stop-music-app-auto-playing-your-car

Well, over the years, Apple must have resolved the issue because in my current 2011 F-150 Sync-Equipped truck and my iPhone 6S, this bug doesn't manifest itself; everything works according to their appropriate settings. For example, on my truck, if I have the audio source switched to Bluetooth to my iPhone 6S AND have AutoPlay enabled on Sync, then the music will resume playback from the iPhone when I start the truck, but with AutoPlay turned off (#2 in your link) or if the audio source is anything other than from Bluetooth to my iPhone, then music will not be resumed.

I can now safely load my iPhone with music without fear of inadvertently draining its battery, unlike before when the bug was still present; removing all my music was the solution I chose back then as I used my iPod Classic for music.