How do I stop the Music app from opening on my iPhone when I plug in my headphones?

I too hate this iPhone because Apple Techs won’t fix easy issues like this. I can’t play my direct tv app through my radio because the stupid apple music app starts playing music and pauses direct tv app. If you in pause it to play the stupid music comes back on. I want to break this stupid phone in half! Ugh sorry -feels great to vent!

Is Apple going to add a Autoplay On/Off for their Apple Music App or Not??? I want to listen to something besides music on my radio like stream talk shows, etc, but I can’t because it pauses and as soon as I press play button the music app plays music instead and it’s impossible to turn off the stupid music app because it will just turn on again by itself. Ugh.. if it wasn’t a company phone I’d throw it off a cliff after I poured gasoline on it and burned the Android wannabe... missing my HTC One :(

iphone 8 = garbage!

Exact same issue on iphone X and latest Ipad, I can be watching something and all of a sudden what i'm watching halts and some random song from my playlist starts to play, it is highly annoying, i don't want to remove music app as i have some albums and things i like to listen to, but there MUST be a way to prevent it just deciding to start to play something randomly! come on apple that cannot be hard to have a enable or disable option for that happening! fix it !

It still didn’t work for me. And I’m having the same issue but it’s on my iPod instead of an iPhone. I don’t know if that makes a difference or not. But also the voice control thing will pop up occasionally too. I have Siri turned off..

This section does not exist in Settings > General. There is only Handoff. 11.1 iOS.

Anyone know of a way to completely disable the buttons on headphones with mic and remote control? Maybe this can prevent Apple Music and Voice Control from randomly opening when using 3rd party headphones.

Switching off Handoff did NOT sove the problem! Even shutting down all aps and restarting the iPad did not change the unwanted behaviour! 😠

any updates so far? it happens to my SE too!!

Good day - thank you in advance!!!

The "General" - "Hands Off" did not work on my iPhone 5c (when I plug my iPhone headset to it, it plays my iTunes music?)

Your thoughts!?!?!

Additional information: Now everything is fine! No more problems with this! Great! 🙂

I believe this may have worked on my end (my iPhone 5c)

Cheers to you all alongside McRandy...

Mine started dropping calls today. I was talking to a friend and my music started playing and dropped the call. It did it twice in a row. Now I can't use my headphones. TERRIBLE!

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I have an iPhone 7, iOS 12.2 with the same issue.

This works for me I did the electrical tape fix about 2 weeks ago and now no more music madness!! Thanks for posting hypaalicious!