How to Stop Apple Music from Automatically Playing

Q: I have an iPhone 8 running iOS 13.2.3. Ever since I upgraded to iOS 13, my iPhone always starts playing Apple Music via Bluetooth in the car automatically, even if the Apple Music app is closed. This happens even when I am listening to other audio such as audiobooks in the car. How to fix this problem?

Have you come across an Apple Music auto-play problem? Some Apple Music users report that their Apple Music will play music automatically when they get into the car. Some others found this problem happened to their iPhone, AirPods, or Bluetooth speakers. If you are looking for a method to fix Apple Music from automatically playing, you can follow this tutorial which contains the official method to turn on and turn off the Apple Music Autoplay feature, and also 5 more methods to fix Apple Music playing automatically which is not caused by the Autoplay feature.

How to Stop Apple Music from Automatically Playing on iPhone

Apple Music has an Autoplay feature, which will play music in your library or a random song automatically when Apple Music finishes all the songs in a playlist or album. Indeed, you can use this to discover new music. But sometimes you just want to stop when you finish your songs. In this case, you need to turn off the Autoplay feature of Apple Music. Here is a full guide for how to turn on and turn off the Apple Music Autoplay feature on iOS devices. When you find Apple Music plays automatically on any device, you can also try to close this feature to fix it.

Step 1. On your iPhone/iPad/iPod, open the Music app.

Step 2. Play a song and tap the mini player. Tap the Up Next icon.

Step 3. If this feature is turned on, you will find a highlighted Autoplay icon. 

Step 4. Tap this icon to disable the Autoplay feature. If you want to enable this feature, go to the same route to turn it on.

How to Stop Apple Music from Automatically Playing in Car

When you want to stop Apple Music from automatically playing in the car, you can try to close the Carplay feature first. If you have turned on the Carplay feature, Apple Music may play music for you without launching it.

Go to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Allowed Apps > CarPlay.

How to Stop Apple Music from Playing Automatically with Timer

Another way you can try is to use the Timer to stop Apple Music from playing automatically. The Timer feature of the iPhone can stop music from playing every a period of time, which can be decided by you. Follow the below-mentioned guide to fix this problem.

Step 1. Just go to the Clock app first. Tap the Timer button at the bottom of the Clock app.

Step 2. Use the time picker to pick the interval time.

Step 3. Press when time ends button. Choose the Stop Playing option.

Step 4. Tap Set and then Start to start the timer.

How to Stop Apple Music from Automatically Playing with Handoff

The Handoff feature helps continues the playback of videos or audios on your iPhone. Try to disable this feature, if you want to prevent Apple Music from playing automatically.

Step 1. Go to the Settings app on iPhone.

Step 2. Then choose the General button and then the Handoff option.

Step 3. Disable this feature to fix this Apple Music autoplay issue.

How to Stop Apple Music from Automatically Playing with Bluetooth

When your devices start to play Apple Music automatically, you can try to turn off the Bluetooth and also cellular data on your phone to stop it. Especially you use Bluetooth or cellular data to connect these devices and playing music. Go to Control Center and tap the Bluetooth icon to close Bluetooth on iOS devices temporarily.

Bonus Tip: Transfer Apple Music songs to Other Players for Playing

Of course, except for the methods above, you can also send your situation to Apple to get more professional help. You can also try other solutions. But before you fix this issue on Apple Music, how to listen to Apple Music normally? Here is a good tip for you!

You can transfer Apple Music playlists to other music apps for playing. Therefore, you do not need to pay a lot to start a new subscription on other music apps. And you can still enjoy your favorite Apple Music songs with high quality. But before you transfer Apple Music playlists to Spotify or other music apps, there is a significant step - convert Apple Music to MP3.

MP3 is a common audio format that is acceptable for most media players. So you can convert Apple Music to MP3 to transfer them to any media player. For the conversion, ViWizard Apple Music Converter is a highly-suggested converter for Apple Music songs. It will convert at a 30X faster speed and output audio with high quality to 6 popular formats such as MP3, FLAC, AAC, and more.

Key Features of ViWizard Apple Music Converter

• Support to download and convert Apple Music with lossless quality
• Convert Apple Music to MP3, FLAC, M4A, M4B, WAV, AAC losslessly
• Remove the built-in protection from Apple Music, iTunes, and Audible
• Handle the conversion of audios in batch at the faster speed of 30×

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Guide: How to Download Apple Music to MP3 for Offline Playing on Any Device

Before we start, click the download link above to install ViWizard Audio Converter (Windows/Mac) on your desktop. Now, let's see how to download Apple Music to MP3 with lossless quality by ViWizard. Make sure that the iTunes app has been installed on your PC.

1Load Apple Music You Need to the Converter

Launch ViWizard Audio Converter on your computer. The iTunes app will be opened as well. When you click the Load iTunes Library button, a pop-up window with your iTunes library will appear, from which you can pick Apple Music you like. You may also add music by dragging and dropping it from local folder.

2Choose MP3 as Output Format and Set Parameters

Next, in the left corner, click the Format button. Then, choose MP3 as your desired output format. You may also tune the audio parameters as your needs by altering the codec, channel, bit rate, and sample rate, and so on. Finally, press OK to save your changes.

3Start to Download Apple Music for Offline Playing

Then, on the bottom right corner, click the Convert button to begin downloading and converting Apple Music to MP3 for offline playing. Following the downloaded Apple Music files, click the Converted button and then you are able to transfer them to any device and player.

The Final Word

It's easy to stop Apple Music from automatically playing throught the solutions as above. You can try them one by one to fix the error. The best method to aviod this error is to use ViWizard Audio Converter to download the Apple Music playlists for offline playing. When the conversion is over, you can transfer the downloaded Apple Music to any device you like with ease. Just click the download button to learn more about ViWizard at once and you won't be disappointed.

Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of ViWizard who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.