iPhone randomly starts playing music

No amount of force quitting/rebooting or uninstalling/rebooting/reinstalling has resolved this for me. iPhone 7plus, same problem since last pandora upgrade but doesn't just play pandora. Sometimes it plays my iTunes music. Can be triggered by any number of events such as: Bluetooth connect/disconnect, locking the screen, silencing/declining a call and sometimes just out of the blue with no discernible trigger. It's very random. I haven't found a way to reliably reproduce the issue on demand. It does seem to happen at least once a day and often several times daily. I've taken to keeping the volume turned down so that it doesn't cause any issues at work when it randomly starts playing at inappropriate times. OK love Pandora but may need to uninstall it till they figure this out.

I'm having the exact same problem. I have done a hard reset of the phone and it still just starts playing Pandora randomly. I am not doing anything with the phone and it will just start playing and the Pandora app is not open.

Same thing keeps happening on my 6s no matter what I do or don't do!!! I recently got rid of all the stored music on my phone so it just does it with pandora. It's done it while I was in the middle of watching a video on the phone. I don't understand what's going on?!

It seems most of the community members here are experiencing this problem due to Pandora. However, I do not have Pandora and I have never downloaded or used it. However, my iPhone 6s plays music from iTunes randomly and also Siri starts abruptly. I am not sure what is causing this and I have tried to reboot. It happens more frequently when I am using earphones or moving with my phone in my pocket. I have tried to remove the phone casing and tried using new earphones but the problem has persisted in March 2017. Could anyone have a solution to abrupt starting up of music and Siri? Thank you!

Mine does the same thing as sandaykc!! I don't have an Apple Watch. It's just super annoying. I'll plug in headphones and Siri will randomly open several times. Music will just start playing sometimes- I don't have any downloaded music on my phone, so it must be coming from iTunes somehow. This is a recent problem for me, since one of the last few updates. Incredibly obnoxious and I hate it.

Same problem here on iPhone 7 as well, though I've never used the Pandora app. Music app just starts. Happens without fail when I connect to USB in a vehicle, but also in my pocket randomly at times. Frustrating.

Any helpful answers for this issue? My iPhone 7+ has done this twice in the last hour while at work. Pandora is closed as is Music yet it still starts playing unprompted. It does it in the middle of the night and has almost gotten my phone shot a few times. There needs to be a fix for this and soon . . .

Hi,

The same thing is also happening to me with Pandora randomly starting to play on my iPhone 7 running iOS 10.3. It's been occurring since last Fall. Sometimes it even happens multiple times a day. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Pandora. I have a connected  Watch and connected AirPods.

I am having the same problem. But for me it doesnt happen just once a day.. its several times a day and i mostly have my phone locked in my pocket or in the phone holder in my car and it ALWAYS starts pandora by itself. Locked, unlocked, in a call, charging, not chatging.. no matter what the phone status is, it starts pandora. I always have my iWatch connected to my phone. So I think its the iWatch.. right? Please fix this apple!

I have this issue too, started recently randomly playing iTunes music and Siri. No Pandora or Apple Watch although I've recently synchronised a Fitbit Blaze via Bluetooth.

Have Apple provided any explanation to this?? A wake up call via iTunes at silly o'clock is not the best

Hello brenden dv

The response was not helpful and the problem continues to stretch into the year 2018 and all the way into iOS 11.2.2. Can anyone from the "Community Specialists" provide any more feedback to this issue? What kind of information has been gathered in the time gap of the original post up until today?

Anything? Please share.

My iPhone randomly plays the music from the music app. Not Pandora. I don't have the watch. No Bluetooth. The music is not even downloaded... it keeps streaming from the cloud, consuming data ever time.

Any updates would be nice and certainly helpful to new people that feel disparaged from seeing threads like this one.

Lucky for me, I figured it out myself, but it a someone else problem. He somehow managed to unintentionally buy music from iTunes, and ever since then, every time he put his phone down.... he somehow managed to hit the play\pause button on the white cord of his ear buds. The user thought it was magic, because, like many other iPhone users, they don't know what the devices are capable of. He keeps the white ear buds plugged in all the time (that was my first hint.

The most aggravating thing to him and me, was that you can't disassociate the music from playing! You can't go to settings and turn that functionality off! PLEASE APPLE.... PLEASE stop forcing "features" onto all of us without a back-out option!!!!!

The purchased songs were not even downloaded, they were on the cloud. Found a way to delete the "play list" and it stopped happening. Just like the battery\performance slowdown "feature" to save your battery life! They should but an option under settings\battery "to turn "performance throttling" off

But that wont force you to buy new batteries or new phones from them now, will it?

Hope I helped a Smidge.

You are right on! Oh I soooo wish I could get off the Apple treadmill, these issues are absolute BS. I have the issue of music and Siri (aka big brother Apple) playing ramdomly, I don’t have Pandora. Usually happens when ear buds are plugged in, Apples or otherwise. There has got to be a solution to this, it’s annoying enough when I’m just driving or by myself but ridiculous when in a meeting or on the phone with someone.