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

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...

That so true and I have the I phone 8 plus ugh I hate this like 😡

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!

This is exactly what is happening with my 8 plus and it's supper frustrating!! there has to be a way to fix iiit!!!

I have the same issue. Itune self launch whenever it wants too and Apple Tech. was not able to find and fix the problem after a month. It is very annoying. It happens in my car and at home.

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?

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!

So, I signed up for these boards because I’ve been having the same issue in regards to music auto-playing, and came across a solution that has worked for me. I have an iPhone 6 and depend on a white noise app and sound-cancelling headphones to sleep through the night.

If you use third-party wired headphones, the issue for voice control/Siri/Music autoplaying at the slightest movement is the fault of metal on your phone touching the outer rim of your headphone jack. A lot of headphones have a little metal nub at the base of the jack that locks it in, but also makes the phone sensors internally go nuts and cause your phone to act possessed.

What I ended up doing was getting a small square of black electrical tape, poking a hole in the middle and threading the jack that connects to the phone through it so that there’s a barrier between the base that usually touches the outer part of the phone and the long part that actually inserts into the phone. Headphones still work, jack still rests firmly inside phone, but with that layer it prevents the random autoplay issue when you want to listen to anything else besides the music app.

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.

I believe this feature is part of Suggested Apps. It thinks you want to listen to music so it automatically opens music for you when headphones are detected, likely because you have been doing this a lot recently. You can't disable this behavior specifically, but you can turn off app suggestions altogether by going to Settings > General > Handoff & Suggested Apps > turn off switch labeled 'Installed Apps'.