Iphone 6: music starts playing by itself

Hope this helps...it took me alittle while to figure it out...but in my case music would only randomly play because I always (or lets say 95% of the time) I would leave my corded,non bluetooth ear buds plugged in? Hope this helps,if not,good luck finding your solution...

In fact, I just moved the cord a bit, and it started playing music!
I will try and substitute the earplugs... 😟

I found that the issue started for me once I received smart watch that I use to control my music occasionally. If my Bluetooth is off or the watch isn't connected then the issue doesn't occur.

Perhaps others might have a similar connected device that might be causing the issue. To note, when I check on the watch, the display for controlling music isn't actually showing so I don't think it is a case of accidentally pressing the buttons.

Update: the source of why my music plays by itself is my headphones! If I move the headphone jack a certain way the music starts playing on its own. If I jiggle it a little again then the song will pause. Note I'm not talking about the volume controls that are part of the wire that leads to the right headphone. I'm talking about the male end of the phone jack that you plug into the device. This is so weird!

Yes, I am having the same problem with my headphones. It might be the iPhone itself or the headphones. You might want to check by trying it with other pairs and without headphones. I’ve tried this and I can conclude from my experience, it is the headphones, not the iPhone. I use Sony headphones, which might be the problem because it was really cheap and they might just be defective. If it is the headphones, I would suggest cleaning them and returning them and reporting the problem to the seller. Hope this helps!

This happened to me today on my iphone 6+.

When i turned it off, I noticed that Pendora was complaining on me apple watch. When i retarted the iphone, the music came back. I was able to turn it off from my watch using Pendora.

Do you use an apple watch too?

I had it just now. iPad mini iOS 11.2.5. No headphones involved. A song just started playing from my library without me even touching it. . Music app was not running. Killed all other apps, music kept going. Started music and paused the song, that stopped it. But why does it start and how can it play when no app is even running? And why is Apple ignoring this?

I've been having this issue too, think I just figured it out though....I hope. I was just turning off auto-update for the apps and I noticed that it was turned on for music as well. So, whenever my daughter downloads a song, it goes to my iPhone as well???? That's all I can figure. Turned it off tonight, we'll see.

I'm replying here to underscore the same issue, which started occurring after I downloaded and installed iOS 11 on my iPhone 6. This irritating intrusion happens whether or not a earbuds are inserted, and whether or not a power cord is attached. And like several others who have posted to this string, there are no music apps or websites in the background to explain why songs start randomly playing. Very annoying behavior.

My iphoneX running iOS 11.2.1 starts playing last-played Music app selection by itself, when coming in range of Bluetooth Soundfreaq Sound Platform 2 speakers. No headset or AirPods.

It’s repeatable but does not happen every time. It’s repeatable enough that an Apple engineer could reproduce it. Bluetooth proximity seems important.

There are now 2400 public customer complaints over 2.5 years, with no fix or explanation.

Latest occurrence 2017.12.24.

This been happening to me for a while now (couple years). Have an Iphone 5, IOs keep it up to date. Never use headphones. Sometimes phone has been charging on my desk when, all of the sudden, music starts playing (phone was charging for half an hour before this happened last time. Other times i've been at movies, phone in my pocket and then i hear music.... after thinking "who is the idiot with that phone" i realized it was me 😟 Dont really expect any help from Apple, given that this thread has been here for 3 years without any progress but just needed to vent....

I have an iPhone 6 Plus that I listen to Apple Music on. It's running iOS 11. My iPad mini 4 is running iOS 11 also. There are times when after listening to Apple Music, I close my app and an hour or 2 later Apple Music is playing on my iPad mini 4. I've checked more than once that The Apple Music app isn't running on my iPhone 6 Plus or on my iPad mini 4. I have to turn it off in my control panel. It happens whether I'm on wifi or not. What is causing this to happen?

Does anyone know what's going on? I see so far that none of the questions about this have been given answers that work, if any at all. So far it looks like I'm the only one this is happening to on iOS 11.

This is happening on my new iPad and my iPhone 7. Music and Audible come on by themselves after I have closed out of all apps. I am trying to play Netflix or similar. I can't get anything to play or turn off music. I have had to trash Audible to get it to stop. I have to use bluetooth to play my movie apps. We should not be losing control of our devices like this.

How about a real answer on this please? My phone will start up any music app at random. I have tested it with Bluetooth off, wifi off, silent mode on, all applications closed, on a fresh reboot, every other possible way. When it's in airplane mode it will randomly blast local music. Any other time it will pick either iHeartRadio or Pandora at a random time and start blasting music. This is ridiculously annoying and inconvenient and there are clearly a lot of people having this issue yet not a single answer as to what is causing this or a solution to the problem.

I don't think it has to do with the OS update, but something with the app itself, and maybe connected devices. I see a bunch of people having this issue, but all of them seem to be iPhones. I am having the same issue using Apple Music through my Droid Turbo 2, and it is extremely obnoxious. I am about ready to just uninstall the app. Has there been any useful answer, yet? Even just "hey, we hear you and we are working on it would be reassuring".