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

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.

RE: Music starts playing automatically when iPhone connects via Bluetooth in a car.

(In my case, it was always iTunes Radio)

I found a fix that works for my iPhone 5 running the lastest iOS 7.1.1

Go to: Settings > Cellular >

(Scroll Down until you see USE CELLULAR DATA FOR:)

This is a list of all the Apps and Utilities that can use cellular data.

Keep scrolling through these until you see Music and switch it OFF.

If you're like me and only use Bluetooth and iPhone in your car to listen to what you choose, such as Pandora orSpotify, this will work. Both Pandora and Spotify are third party apps that need to be launched to work, unlike the built in Music app that seems to have a mind of it's own.

Thank you! Finally, a solution!

I did not understand this. Can you explain it to one who needs to get it in with a teaspoon? :-) I can`t find any cellular choices on my iPhone??

Just like the man said: choose "settings" from your main iPhone screen, the gray picture of a bike's front gear cluster, I think it's supposed to represent. Then, your fourth-or-so choice down from the top is "cellular". Scroll down until you see a grouping titled "USE CELLULAR DATA FOR:" and scroll down until you reach (in alphabetical order) "Music." It will likely be switched "on" (green showing). Touch that green and it will slide the slide to off. Then close settings and you're done. Now, put away the teaspoon and enjoy not having unwanted music blasting you in your car.

Thanks Jim!

Couldn't have said it better myself!

Hehe... thanx :-)

It didn`t work for me :-(

I did what you said, but my iPhone still automatically start playing songs from the library .... anyone else it did not work for or is it just me? :-(

I went to iTunes, discovered that a song playing was already in mid-play and in PAUSE mode. I then forced it to the end wit the slider, and left the app.

That seems, for me anyway, to do it.

It appears that when there is an unfinished song in iTunes, and the unit senses any plug-in wire with a control switch on it (headset, etc), it continues to play that song (and for no good reason - c'mon, Apple! There have been enough updates already!).

Let me know how this works. Wondering if it works for me only. Thanks!

stevenXcross wrote:

I went to iTunes, discovered that a song playing was already in mid-play and in PAUSE mode. I then forced it to the end wit the slider, and left the app.

Do you mean the Music app?

Yes. The music app.

Sorry

I'm a little embarrassed about my solution sounding like it was the final fix. It isn't.

My iPhone is still trying to play music on its own too. It doesn't always happen so it didn't become apparent at first.

I'm convinced there is a bug in the iOS that needs to be fixed but it will take convincing someone at Apple to take it seriously enough to look into it.