Pandora starts randomly playing on phone

I think it has nothing to do with the Apple watch. I don't have an Apple watch and have this issue with my iPhone 5 10.2. What is annoying is that one has to first open Pandora to close it. The application plays without it even having been opened on my phone. Away from wifi you can turn off cellular date in Settings of Pandora to stop it. In range of wifi I don't know how to stop it.

Per my post on 4/7 ("We believe there is a fix for this in the latest update."), Pandora has updated their app to address the issue. If you haven't downloaded this update, you should update to Pandora version 8.3.2 and give it a try. For now, at least, this has resolved the automatic launching of Pandora on my phone. I'd be curious if anyone has done this update and experienced otherwise.

Me too, iPhone 6 here, both iOS and Pandora up-to-date. Can't be the Apple Watch, because I don't have one. I notice it happens a lot when I exit my car and my phone breaks the Bluetooth connection, but it also happens at random times, like just now, which is what finally prompted me to do a search and I found this thread. I've taken to keeping my volume down all the time, which is annoying, to put it mildly...

I Also have the issue on my new iPhone 7. I do not have an Apple Watch but I do have my hearing aids synced with my phone. It's really annoyang when my phone is in another room and Pandora starts playing on its own directly through my hearing aids. I hope someone figures this out soon or Pandora is going to lose another customer.

Just to confirm, have you deleted and reinstalled the Pandora app, and then made sure the app was updated to version 8.3.2? From anyone that says they still have the issue, I'd like to hear if you've both deleted the app, then reinstalled it and make sure it's up-to-date with version 8.3.2 as Pandora suggests. I'm not sure simply doing an update is enough on this one.

I Have this issue too. Pandora plays randomly at the seemingly worst possible times. I do not have the Apple Watch but I do wear the garmin vivosmart hr and it's app is installed on my iPhone se. Could that be the problem?

I have this problem with an Android phone and no watch. It just randomly launches and starts playing music in the middle of meetings. I do have Bluetooth on all the time so that it automatically connects to my car. Maybe its detecting wireless headphones in the office from someone else and thats launching it. It never launches at home where I don't have any bluetooth headphones.

My son has and iPhone SE and the last two mornings, while the phone has been on the charger all night, Pandora just randomly starts playing. This happened at 4am and then today at 5am. All apps were closed before the phone was put on the charger and the phone is in a central location. We do not have any apple watches. I checked the settings and there is no alarm set. I am not sure why this is happening and it is only happening on the one phone. Any ideas? (I have force restarted the phone, the app and all updates are complete)

I have a similar issue- no apple watch and its music app that opens.

For example today my phone dropped a call and started playing a song....but it also started in the middle of a voice chat I had another time today- I was using zoom.us and the music came on in the middle of a call.

A similar thing happens with siri- out of no where siri will activate and ask me what I want even though I have not pressed anything.

Or while I am listening to spotify, the voice command ding will stop playing the music and wait for a response- even though I have not pressed anything.

I'm having the same problem. I have the iPhone 7 128 GB. Everything's updated and it happens with my watch on and off.

I am having this same issue with Pandora randomly playing. I have force quit the app and restarted a few times and it's still happening!

I have been experiencing the exact same issues for the past 2 weeks - except my phone is an iPhone 6s (os v10.2.1).

Same issue. iPhone 7, latest version of Pandora One. Also have Apple Watch 2nd Gen but has happened both with the watch on and off. Only surefire solution so far has been to delete Pandora app.

Same problem but iPhone 6 and Apple Watch. I just tried deleting the Pandora app from the watch...will see what happens. Very annoying!