Control Center auto plays audio!

Bob, here are some screen shots and comments from it occurring this morning.

The only apps on were Netflix and Hulu. I was bouncing between the two watching shows. I closed them

and took a break. No music was playing the iPad was totally asleep.

When I got back 15 minutes or so later, my iPad was asleep. I woke it and found it was

playing a song that I got as a free Apple promo years ago. Music and all apps were still closed.

I opened the Control Center and saw the left controls also indicated the song being played as it usually does.

Then I opened Music and as usual, once this auto play starts the song being played will be indicated in various places like Music too you can see in the bottom center the song is indicated and you can start/pause with the controls on the lower left. The song and album art are here you just can't see them they are out of the frame.

HERE is were I'm starting to wonder. UP NEXT seems to auto populate. I can clear it and then in an hour or so, it auto populates with a bunch of songs from my library. And even though Idecide is playing, it's listed as "Up Next" as in current?

I click "Clear" in the upper right of Up Next to clear the list and as you see the list with a history which is accurate. The Time is 3:18.

Now, the Control Center is cleared and it only says "Music"

Several hours later without having played a single song, the iPad auto populates songs for Up Next and Arlo Gutherie is the next auto played song.

The Other thing I'm wondering about is Shuffle All. I can't turn this off. If I click it, the next song in the shuffle line plays. But I can't get the shuffle icon to go away. I've looked everywhere to turn shuffle off. No luck.

If I go to Account and Sign Out, the songs that you see here disappear and I have no music on my iPad. I assume this is cloud library? When I logout, then there is no music to auto play which is a work around too, but not one I want of course.

I used to backup to my Mac Pro and manage my songs there too. But I changed to my Macbook Pro and then somewhere along the way the cloud library got turned on. I like the concept of the cloud library but wonder if it is part of the problem.

I hope this gives someone some new insight.

Thanks for viewing and checking this out.

Steven

Good thinking but this means I have to do this all the time. Meaning every time I shut my iPad down and start it up, gotta do the work around, or if I play music, then I have to play a video. I think in "real world" use it could get cumbersome. There has to be an answer why the Control Center has a mind of it's own. I'm going to get the AppleCare Engineers on this and see what can be done. But I truly thank you for your taking the time. Best Steven.

Will do. If you turn off the iPad, on restart on mine, I don't see Music but after using the iPad for awhile, if I open a video, I will see that like your workaround, and Music shows other times and then, intermittently a specific song.

Here are a couple areas I have my eye on:

Earbuds: It seems that having them plugged in when the iPad goes to sleep, may have something to do with this, but how (if at all)? No clue. The earbuds are from J-Lab. I need to switch to OEM and rule out the 3rd party buds. The J-Lab earbuds have a mic and inline volume control.

Short? I noticed once, once only, I was plugging in my charger cable and didn't get it directly in at first so that metal from the male plug touched the iPad metal body around the female jack. This set a song to start playing! It did it a few times as I purposely repeated this. I haven't tried again lately and would imply some kind of short or stimulation? But either way, when the music comes on usually, my earbuds and the charge cable are connected. I want to collect a couple screen shots and will post shortly.

I signed out of Apple Music in Settings and think this "may" have some effect. I'll see if this stops it

Thanks,

Steven