At least once per day, my iPhone 6 randomly starts playing music even when no music apps are active. This is very disruptive. No headphones are attached, but I do have an iWatch that communicates with the iPhone. I believe the culprit is Pandora. Any advice would be much appreciated.
iPhone 6, iOS 8.1.1
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In my case, it was a blue tooth Speaker that, when I would turn off ( because it was paired with the phone ) would trigger a song to be played (oddly enough it was always the same U2 Song )
The solution was simple, just unpair that device ( you will definitely have some paired devices ).
It has been 4 Weeks with no "autoplay" from the iPhone.
Regards,
V.
It happens to me too, but since I don't have Pandora it might be linked to another App. In my case, it could have something to do with the Nike Run App because it plays music that I selected while using it.
This is quite normal for Apple. You get this function on all IPhones . The reason why they have added music to spontaneously emit from your phone at inappropriate times is to simply keep you consciously aware you have their product in your pocket which ultimately has power over you and can cause you to face disciplinary action at work at any given moment. Nothing is accidental . The headphones , the chargers , the battery drainage, the auto ringing/face timing to ex bosses on your contact list at 2am u and the spontaneous music is all part of the plan . Apple are no fools. All these seemingly below par and inferior products are specifically designed flaws. It's 2018... if they gave you something that worked properly.. how could they possible bend your will to by the upgraded product? Genius.
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
I have an iPhone 7 Plus with an I watch series 3 and my music randomly plays? This is causing me grief? Is there a fault somewhere
Oh yeah, and just to add, when I want to listen to music, it won’t let me, and will just stop randomly, plus I don’t have pandora downloaded.
This happens with the iPhone 7 and the stitcher app as well.
iPhone randomly starts playing music
