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

The problem is not with the iphone. It is with the cars audio settings. Go to "Bluetooth devices> advanced> auto play and select auto play off. I dealt with this aggrivating issue for almost two years before figuring it out. The cars bluetooth is signaling the iphone to turn on and play even if your cars radio is not tuned to Bluetooth audio. It does this so if/when you do select Bluetooth audio it can quickly play without having to be prompted to connect. Try this fix and it should solve the issue. i have a 2010 f350 with nav and sync. Depending on your cars media device the ques may be different to get to the Autoplay feature but nonetheless this is the issue. Hope this helps Someone.

I found a bandaid approach that seems to work. Go to: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/silent-tracks-various-useful/id366737722

You can download one or more "songs" of complete silence. In iTunes, you can right click on the Song, select "Get Info" then select the "Sorting" tab. Under "Sort As," you can put "A A A A" or whatever caption you want at the top. You can also do this with any song and make it go to the top. To be sure it worked, I turned my phone off and then turned it on before starting the car.

It's not perfect, but it gives you time to react without getting really annoyed with hearing the same song start up each time.

Your response made me just crack up, thank you. I'm hoping the waiting for the now playing track to end and turning off repeat thing will do the trick.

Thanks!

This 100% the fix. Works perfectly.

http://ios.wonderhowto.com/how-to/delete-phantom-icloud-songs-your-iphone-015457 5/

Apple has to know this problem exists. A little while back U2 released a free album that they automatically added to your itunes account. Everytime I got in my car iTunes started playing U2. It caused kind of an uproar that they had to release a U2 album removal tool lol.

I just got a new phone and I downloaded a ringtone pack So that is playing automatically right now which led me here. It's a little worse than Jackson 5.

It is crazy to think I have to delete this thing I just brought to fix this. But it's worth it. I guess no more purchases from itunes lol.

I am at 8.3 and it does it ALL the time, on it's own. I hate it. Does anyone have an answer?

Does anyone know how to take iTunes off of the control center? I think this is where it might be triggered

rtond wrote:

Does anyone know how to take iTunes off of the control center?

You can't.

I think this is where it might be triggered

It's not. It did the same before control center was around...

I have an iPhone 6 and this wasn't happening to me on this new phone up until a few days ago! It happened all the time on iPhone 5. Can someone please help??

I've tried most a lot of proposed solutions but they don't work! I want to be able to charge my phone and still be able to play my app while plugged in to the USB drive in my car.

When you don't want this behavior quit the Music app like this:

Double click the Home button to reveal the app switcher. Flick up on the page preview of the app you want to quit. The page preview will fly away and disappear. That quits the app.

Thank you so much for this fix.

omg this bug is freaking me out. i cant play music on my car with deezer because hes keep playing itunes music. this is so f*** annoying.

Don't know who posted this fix but the problem is in the car audio set up. You have to find advanced settings, locate and turn off auto play.

feldspars wrote:

Don't know who posted this fix but the problem is in the car audio set up. You have to find advanced settings, locate and turn off auto play.

Where is this?

In the car stereo settings?

If so, this would be specific to the car stereo. Mine (Jeep UConnect) does not have this setting