Iphone 6: music starts playing by itself

I am having the same problem. I hardly ever use earbuds, so that is not the cause. I have double-clicked the home button and closed all open programs, and even shut down and restarted, but it keeps happening. In my case, it plays music from my iTunes library (it starts out with "ABC" from the Jackson Five, which is not awful, but jarring when it comes out of the blue - and I'm a white guy in my late-50s). It seems like the "Music" app is starting on it's own. It first began happening after I plugged in a car charger into it, but still happens, erratically, even though it's not plugged in anymore.

Let's get an answer for this, please!

That brings up another concern. It doesn't play my downloaded music. It goes to my iTunes library causing me to use data on my plan that I do not want to use. It's not just an inconvenience, it's potentially hitting my purse strings too.

It's 2017 and last night that happend to me past 4am. I got woken up to a techno track! The phone was just on the night stand, nothing connected to it. Quite frankly it creeped me out! Initially I thought a phone call from overseas or something but then I realised it was just the music app. The phone was locked and I had to stop the track playing through the locked screen, also the app wasn't running in the background as I no longer use iPhone for music, there is only that one annoying techno track I forgot to delete months ago.

Apple tech support has over 1500 complaints on this. They are seeing a drop in music sales and I believe they have specifically set an auto program to try and get us back into I tunes. If that is not the case, it's a shame they have fixed it by now.

It's 9:08am CST, I've been jolted out of my sleep 4 FOUR TIMES by my iPhone 6 running iOS 10.3.2 no background apps running. It was on the night stand. The last app I used was Relax Melodies to put my baby to sleep. It has a timer, after 2 hours it is set to close the app. The app closed at 9pm. 9:03 pm Chris Browns Zero blaring like we are at his concert. Pressed the home button to close out music to no avail as music is not OPENED! Had to swipe up and left to stop it! At 12:16am same song same action I delete the song! At 4something am same song this time the volume is pushed all the way down! Which is weird because 4 hours ago I deleted said song! At 6:55 same song restart phone! Now it's 7am I can't go back to sleep but my cranky baby is asleep, as she has been startled from her sleep just as her parents have! After the restart at 7am it has happened again this time different song, Katy Perrys Firework! Something is WRONG Apple and you guys need to fix it! I will gladly retract from the IPhone Forever for uninterrupted sleep! If we go back to Android I'll never purchase anything from Apple again! My daughter just started sleeping through the night!

One ****** & Sleep mama!

There's two things I was thinking may be related to this. Perhaps others would like to try.

Settings

General

Shut off handoff

The other could be

Settings

Touch ID & Passcode

Shut off Voice Dial

(music control is always enabled)

I shut the first setting off but am unsure if this fixed it. It happens rarely to me.

This happened to me today for the first time and I think I can explain why.

Scene: My wife had gone out in her van a bit earlier. I walked into the bedroom and my iPhone 6+ was locked and playing music through its built-in speakers. I did not turn it on. I confirmed that my wife did not turn it on. Puzzlement ensued, including reading many complaints of this behaviour.

Explanation: my iPhone is paired with many devices, including my wife's van. Yesterday I was listening to my iPhone's music in her van. I have noticed that the pairing process is at least two steps after the audio system comes on: (1) the iPhone starts playing music through its speakers, then a couple of seconds later, (2) the music switches to the van's speakers (2015 Sienna). I think what happened is that my wife started the van downstairs, within range of my phone, which started the pairing process. Music started playing. Then she drove away, possibly before the switch-over to the van's speakers.

The iOS software should probably be a little smarter in that the process of pairing and playing should be all-or-none.

Now that I think of it...if my memory serves me right,I cant think of a time it did it without my ear buds plugged in? I am aggravated at myself for not noticing it way sooner? Thinks for rattling my memory loose!

Its not the ear buds......I have had it happen to me with brand new high end ear buds....same with the power cord and wall charger being brand new...? And also mine has gone 2-3 months with it happening........? ....so just because you found a potentiol problem and it hasnt happened inwhile doesnt mean its fixed..........odds are if your patient , you are almost garaunteed to see it again eventually....?

That is not a solution.
At least some people try to offer some helpful advice. Apple just give generic bot answers.
I choose to uninstall itunes.
Here is a much more helpful solution.
5 Ways To Fix IPhone 5 Music Randomly Turns On | Technobezz

Deleting itunes? No way....I will learn to live with it before I ever delete itunes?? That would be like having a sweet car you love and then just abandoning it without ever taking it to a mechanic because it was occasionally running bad? **** no.....itunes withdrawal ***** bad I hear?

If that car turns itself on and off by itself, I'm never going to drive it. And since the mechanic doesn't seem to know how to fix it and doesn't care about the problem, or the customers. It's better to disable it altogether, at least for now.
I can walk across the country in less time than it would take to get the car fixed.... or to get a useful answer from Apple.

My phone does this too. I haven't found what causes it. But I have to open Apple Music and shut it off to stop it. Just now I was running using a different music app and it kept turning on my downloaded music randomly on top of the music I was playing. I've had it start playing when my phone is just sitting untouched and locked. And by the way it's usually locked when it does this. Haven't seen an answer to this question yet.

Same issue for me. I have used Pandora, then paused it then double click home button swipe it away and suddenly after some time the music started to play. Then I swipe from bottom to up for context menu, then swipe left and I able to see Pandora task still running in iPhone player and there is no way to remove this task only paused, but after that, it starts itself suddenly. So I have observed this issue a long time ago as well when it will be fixed finally?!!!!

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.