One of the downsides of having a Bluetooth stereo system in your car is the music autoplay. It happens with me all the time and might have happened to you. Right after you enter the car and twist the ignition. Boom! The last played track on your iPhone resumes and start exploding the car through the speakers. This irritating moment even before starting the trip can relate to us all. But I’ve discovered ways to manage it, and I’m sure it will work for you. Let me show you how to stop the iPhone from auto-playing music in Car.
1. Turn Down the Volume
You can immediately stop the music from playing loud by turning the volume down to zero. This makes sense when you do it every time before switching off the engine, so when you start it again, music will still play, but you won’t hear the sound.
I know it may sound lame, but it’s one of the best workarounds you can practice before getting out of the car.
2. Find Auto-play Settings in the Car Sound System
The smart Bluetooth stereo system in your car should have an option to disable the autoplay feature. As each car has different settings, you must scan through all music & connectivity options to find the switch that will let you customize the feature.
Once found, turn it off, and you might be free from that irritating situation at all times! If there’s no such option available, you probably need to look out for another hack!
3. Use a Silent Music Track to Prevent Apple Music from Playing
You can always organize your music playlists and tracks to play in order in a music app. To prevent songs from automatically playing loud, put silent music tracks ahead of your favorite songs. As Apple Music tends to play tracks in alphabetical order, you can rename the silent ones and make them play first.
4. Tell Siri to Stop Playing Apple Music in the Car
The voice assistant on your iPhone is quick to address all your queries and provide a prompt solution. Just call out Siri to stop the music, and your action will promptly be executed. However, it would be best to do this whenever the music starts playing after getting into the car.
5. Turn off CarPlay to Stop iPhone from Auto-play Apple Music
If you’ve turned on CarPlay on your iPhone, it will automatically start playing tracks from Apple Music while you’re in the car. You can disable this feature with the below-mentioned steps.
- Open the Settings app.
- Go to Screen Time.
- Go to Content & Privacy Restrictions.
- Select Allowed Apps.
- Turn off CarPlay.
6. Disable Cellular Usage of Music App
Music will start streaming automatically when mobile data is enabled on your iPhone. You can disable the data access to that music app to stop your iPhone from auto-playing tracks. To do so,
- Open the Settings app.
- Go to Mobile Data settings.
- Scroll down to the app name and turn off the toggle.
7. Send Your Feedback to Apple
If you think that Apple should provide a separate setting to turn off auto-play music, you can contact Apple and drop your feedback. You can also reach them via Twitter and report your concern about the same feature.
Signing Off…
Overlooking the perks like wireless connection and easy pairing, autoplay might appear an intrusive feature of a Bluetooth stereo system. But, if you try one of the actions listed above, I’m sure you may want to neglect the downside and keep enjoying the perks. What do you think about it? Shouldn’t you try out all the ways explained? Share your thoughts in the comment section below!
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Many newer cars have Bluetooth stereo systems that sync wirelessly with an iPhone. One common and prominent feature of this experience is that music will automatically start playing from the iPhone through the Bluetooth speakers when you get into the car, sometimes autoplaying from a local music library or sometimes from a streamed music service.
If you don’t want your music to start playing automatically from iPhone over a Bluetooth car stereo every time you get into the car, read on to learn how you can try to stop it.
Be aware there is currently no perfect solution to this. The good news is you can use a few workarounds for stopping auto-playing music over Bluetooth from iPhone to a car stereo. The bad news is there is no single setting on the iPhone to stop auto-playing music over Bluetooth, and so you’ll have to use some variation of a workaround described below.
7 Ways to Stop Music Autoplaying in Car from iPhone
We’re going to share a variety of tips for silencing and stopping music autoplaying from an iPhone over Bluetooth. In no particular order:
Option 0: Turn Car Stereo Volume Down to Zero
One fairly lame solution is to simply turn the car stereo down all the way to nothing before you turn off the engine, that way the music will still automatically play but you won’t hear it as it autoplays over the car stereo from iPhone over Bluetooth.
Yea, turning the car audio to zero is an admittedly lame solution, but if the options below don’t work for you then you can give it a try to see if that works for you.
Option 1: Check Car Stereo Settings for Auto-Play and Turn It Off
Some car stereos may have a sound or audio setting somewhere that allows you to turn off the auto-play music feature from the car stereo side of things. Each car stereo is different and so you’ll have to explore the options yourself to see if such a setting exists on your Bluetooth equipped car.
Look in the car stereo Bluetooth settings, audio settings, sound settings, stereo settings, or any other settings in the car dashboard that may associate with Bluetooth auto-play audio, autoplaying music, or something similar – good luck!
Option 2: Quit the Music Playing App on the iPhone
If the music auto-playing is coming from a music app on the iPhone, you can try force quitting it every time you get into the car.
Quitting apps on iPhone is easy, just double-tap the Home button and then swipe up on the app that is playing music.
This works well with third party apps like Spotify or Pandora, but is not always reliable with silencing the built-in Music app for whatever reason.
Option 3: Disable Cellular Usage of Music App to Stop Autoplay
If the music app that is auto-playing is streaming over a cellular connection, you can disable that apps ability to use cellular data to prevent it from streaming any music and thus disable auto-play of music from that app.
Go to the “Settings” app and then to “Cellular” and scroll down until you find the app[s] in question that are auto-playing music in the car from your iPhone. Turn the switch to the “OFF” position to stop them from using cellular data.
This works to stop music auto-play streaming from Apple Music and the Music app. But keep in mind this also prevents the app in question from using any cellular data or streaming at all. Thus it may not be workable for all users.
You can also target Music app cellular functionality through Settings > Music > Cellular Data and turning that off, and turning Downloads off too if you find songs are constantly downloading and streaming on the iPhone.
Option 4: Delete the Song or Music from the iPhone
The iPhone will auto-play music over Bluetooth to the car stereo from a local Music library in alphabetical order. So if you’re tired of hearing the same song auto-play over and over again, you can delete the top most song in alphabetical order. Of course this just means the next song will auto-play instead, unless you delete that one too.
Go here to learn how to delete music in iOS 11 and iOS 10 by song or album. Alternatively you can go all the way and remove all music from the iPhone too.
Note that if you delete all music from the iPhone you may still have to delete an individual song from the iPhone Music library so that it stops downloading and streaming itself.
Personally, I deleted all music from the Music app library on my iPhone by deleting all purchased albums and found that to be the most reliable solution for stopping auto-play music on a car stereo from the Music app. Obviously this isn’t a reasonable solution if you want to have any music in your iPhone library, but it is effective.
Option 5: Delete the Music App from the iPhone
If you don’t use the music app anyway, you can just delete it and uninstall the app from your iPhone in a few seconds. Yes, you can even delete the stock default apps like “Music”.
To remove the default Music app, just tap and hold on the Music icon, then tap the [X] button and confirm you want to delete the app from the device.
Of course you can also delete any other music app or streaming music app if you find that to be auto-playing music too.
Option 6: Tell Siri to “Stop Music”
Another option is to summon Siri in the car and tell Siri to stop playing music. This requires you interacting with Siri every time you start the car.
The downside to this approach is that some auto-playing songs may take a minute or few to download and start auto-playing and streaming, so you can’t just tell Siri right away to stop. You have to wait until the music is playing to tell Siri to stop playing music.
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Do you know of another way to stop music auto-playing from iPhone to a car stereo over Bluetooth? Let us know, share your tips, strategies, and tricks to stop autoplay music in the comments below!