iTunes automatically starts playing when iPhone 5 (w iOS 7.0.2) is connected to car radio via an Apple cable

Well I havent figured out a way to make it resume properly but if you create a file caled AAAA and have the track title be AAA and i found a free blank mp3 file, it doesnt fix the problem of it resuming but it does fix the problem of you wanting to throw your phone out the window after hearing the first minute of the same track a few hundred times

I have an iPhone 5 and every time I get into my car, as soon as my iPhone connects to the bluetooth or if I connect the USB cable, the music starts blaring through the car stereo, even if the radio was off. If I am using any of the navigation apps on my phone (google maps, waze, apple maps), and I happen to be lucky enough to have the voice directions working (that's consistently inconsistent), the music will frequently start by itself during navigation, even if I didn't turn the music on. Sometimes the music and navigation voice over will compete with each other at the same time. Sometimes they both go totally silent. Sometimes I'll hear only music. Sometimes only the voice directions. And if make or receive a phone call while the navigation is working, as soon as the phone call ends, the music will always take over again, even if I didn't have the music on prior to. I've checked and re-checked every setting on my phone, in my apps, in my car, and followed all of the suggestions I've found online (note to Apple - there are tons of posts on this topic), and nothing works.

It seems like there should be an easy software fix for this, or at the very least, options to:

• prevent the music from starting automatically every time you connect with a cable or bluetooth (insanely annoying)
• allow voice directions to temporarily mute music, should one choose to be listenting to music and navigating at the same time
• just listen to voice direction - no music!

Better yet, how about just provide options to let the end-user decide when to listen to music.

For a product that is supposed to be "intuitively easly" and/or "just works", this level of dysfunction shouldn't be acceptable. Come on Apple - what are you doing to fix this???

Why don't we ever see responses from APPLE on these posts. Whenever I search to solve a problem, we seem to all be in the same boat, complaining and frustrated with no assistance or acknowledgement for this company. It is so annoying and quite discouraging after spending a lot of cash on their products. Once they get your money, you're on your own after 90 days unless you fork over more for basic questions on the phone. If it wasn't for other users, we'd have no solutions, yet I still have a low rate of problem solving here. The company is terrible for customer service. It's a shame because they were much better years ago. I will not be getting another iphone, that's for sure. Just had to vent once again...still no solution to this problem though.

Because this is a user to user support forum. Apple does not participate in this forum. Since you do not describe a problem, then it is difficult to suggest a solution.

I'm sorry if you have spent your time waiting for a response from Apple, and that you seem disappointed with answers from users. You won't see to many with an attitude like, "low rate of problem solving here". People will not want to interact with you that way. Generally when people volunteer their time to answering questions, people are generally a bit kinder.

My solution for this bug (well, not a cure, but how I deal with it).

I hope this helps.

I have the same prob on iPad mini, OS7. Here is what works for me on my unit.

Music starts only when I use a headset equipped with a PAUSE/PLAY SWITCH for pause/play, and ONLY when itunes is open in the background, and a PARTIALLY PLAYED song is open and paused. If the last song has been COMPLETED and iTunes is open, it does not play on its own.

When a song sits paused on the open iTunes in the b/g, iPad seems to sense the switch circuit in the jack as PLAY when I plug it in, and that song plays in the background. When I hit the PAUSE/PLAY switch, it PAUSES the song.

If iTunes App has been quit, when I plug in (NOT open in the background) all is normal. It will not play music by simply plugging in, nor when I launch iTunes, until I select a song and hit the switch.

When I use a headset WITHOUT a PAUSE/PLAY switch, everything is normal.

It seems the iPad senses the switch's circuit at plugin and reads it to play what's open in the background.

Thats what my unit does. Hope this helps.

AUGH!!! I love LOVE Genesis - fave band of all time. But now, thank you APPLE I can't get "Abacab" out of my head and whenever I want to charge my iPhone 4 in the car, I have to turn down the volume, lest I become psychotic and throw Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford out the window along with 800 other artists and the photo chronicles of my children's lives thus far. Please help!!

anybody figure a fix out for this? Glad I'm not the only one

I upgraded to 7.1 today. This problem disappered. Anyone else?

I still got this problem even after upgrading to 7.1 :-( Plz, help anyone?

Like you can see, This "problem" isn't really a problem, It's a build in setup in the iOS 7, My only idea is that you can updaite your iPhone to iOS 7.1 and maybe (I'm not sure) it's will solve your problem.

It didn`t fix the issue when i upgradet to 7.1.

I've wanted to smash my phone every time I get on the car when it starts playing Jackson 5 ABC. I want to throw up every time I hear the first ten seconds of that GD song. I prefer spotlight to iTunes So what I have done to stop this is sign out of my Apple ID on my phone. It's the best I can do. It doesn't play that horrid song any longer.

stevenXcross has been correct that it is because there is a song is in "playing" state. So every time the iPhone is Bluetooth connected to the car's audio sys, Music will continue playing the song. The following is the exact steps I did to "solve" it as stevenXcross suggested (my phone is iPhone 4 with OS 7.1)

1. Find Music app on iPhone screen, and open it

2. You should see "Now playing..." or similar on right top corner, red font

3. Follow it to the screen playing the song that must be paused in the middle of playing.

4. Play and Let it finish normally. Or drag to close to end to shorten playing. Make sure this song is not set to play "repeatly"

5. It is done. There should be no more "Nos playing" song causing the trouble.

I have only song in the album. I think the solution should work even if there are multiple songs.

Good luck

I am so sick of hearing the opening riff of Vampire Weekend A-Punk. I found a solution! Delete all your music from iTunes and use Amazon Cloud Player instead. Great thing about the Amazon Cloud player app for iPhone is that it can do Airplay. The bad thing is that Amazon Cloud player for OS X doesn't do Airplay.

Would be great if Apple can fix this problem with ITunes, but I'm not holding my breath. It's such a piece of bloatware I doubt it will ever get fixed.

I have 7.1 and experience the same issue. My additional problem is listening to Pandora, a call comes in so Pandora auto pauses, but then the iTunes player starts and runs while I'm on my call (blue tooth into car or even direct if I use cell phone only). I can hear the music but the other person can't. Drives me crazy. When I'm driving I can't stop to fiddle and turn it off. I'm going to try and delete all music from the library and see if that works.