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

I also found removing whats listed in the "UP next" list has helped me from getting songs starting after some searching, hope this helps you :) while holding on a song swipe it left to remove - repeat for whatever you have in there etc

The music app is always running and playing random songs, depleting resources. No headphones near this iPhone 6. Come on Apple, get out of our lives.

Delete the music app and then install again..

Hope it works 🙏

Same here. iPhone 8s, iOS 12.1.4. This behavior just started with the recent iOS update to 12.1.4. Absolutely ridiculous and frustrating!

Settings - Notifications - turn off notifications for the Music app

This does this for Pandora or Spotify also so I do not know the solution for turning off autoplay altogether, or for apps from which you still want notifications. I wonder if we can fool around with the badges and icons to see if that helps?

Does anyone have an answer for this? I absolutely HATE this idiot feature. Every time I go to make a phone call the stupid phone starts blaring music. Apple, this is really ridiculous that there's no way to turn it off and make it stop doing this.

No such luck for me - I have been banging my head against this Music default auto play 'feature' for over a year now, it's apparently been an issue for users for more than 5 years - every time my iPhone (6, 11.3.1) gets in range of the Bluetooth receiver in my car (Tune 2 Air) it launches the Music app - even if the car is off and/or the ipod input is not selected.

I did the dodge of putting in a long silent track called AAutoplay, so I don't get blasted with the same song every time, but I'd love a cleaner solution.

This will happen even if I have Pandora running on the phone when I get in - if Pandora isn't actively playing, Music will appear on the Lock screen.

I'm trying to find out if there's a way to configure the connection from the vehicle end - I do have steering wheel controls that will work to skip forward (and back, in Music), but no joy so far there, either.

Same here. I hate this 8 plus. It’s annoying every 5 min I am checking and turning off the music . I thought something is wrong with my phone. Hope they will fix x it or if they take it I want to return this phone

Exactly the same issue here.

I have an iPhone 6 for work and an iPhone X as my personal phone.

I use a headset attached to both phones as I’m making work calls all day. Whenever I finish a call on my work phone, my music just kicks in through the headset on my personal phone.

It’s driving me mad!!!

I hate to say it but this is still a problem.... I had this same issue with my iPhone 7+ and thought it was just that phone. Never questioned it just planned to replace the phone. Until I bought the iPhone XS Max 4 days ago and guess what? It’s still happening. Apple replaced my phone yesterday and the new one is doing it again today! It seems that they aren’t recognising it as a common problem

I am having this issue as well, however; when I have another app open that I listen to and I am trying to pause this app music comes on instead. I do not have my music open, but it plays anyway. I tried the above suggestion, but it doesn't seem to have helped. Its really annoying!!!!!!! I want to pause the meditation app and my music plays instead!

I have this problem too. I have a third party headset that I use for phone calls. Sometimes the music comes on terminating my call. I must admit that so far, it has never happened when I am using the phone without a headset.

I read many of the suggestions.

1-I only have Handoff in my Settings menu so don't know how to disable suggested apps. Also I never use Music so don't know why it would suggest it.

2-This also happens when I am in my car and the phone is not connected to any power in the car. It is often in my handbag and suddenly there is music coming out of the car speakers which is coming from the phone. (I do not have CarPlay) just regular Bluetooth. Just to be safe I disabled CarPlay or rather I removed my car from the list.

3-I had the same car and the same phone for years and this never happened. This is a fairly recent (last 6 months) thing.

Apple frustrates me . Do something about the music playing when I use my headset to talk on my I phone . This may be a reason to stop using the I phone as I prefer to have conversations using my headset because it eliminated background noise.

APPLE please reply and tell me when you will resolve this .

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!