IPhone 4 - My music randomly starts playing

My phone will be off and then all of a sudden my music starts playing. It can either be my itunes music or pandora. Does anyone know how to stop this from happening?

I have the same issue but with my ipad. Anyone know why this happens or how to stop it? It's quite embarrasing since it starts playing in the middle of class or when out running errands.

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Music Randomly Starts Playing

Since upgrading to 5.0, my blackberry tour does this annoying thing where it randomly starts playing the music I uploaded onto it. I'll listen to music on my blackberry while I'm at the gym and when I'm done I hit the stop button. Then I'll be standing in an elevator at work the next day and music will start randomly blasting from my phone. Needless to say this is rather embarrassing and obnoxious. Anybody else have a similar problem or have any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks.

Have you received a MMS message with music attached lately?
Read this thread:
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-Tour-9630/Unwanted-ringtone-plays-after-normal-rin...
The fix for many has been to delete that MMS message, delete the randomlt playing and song and then do a reboot of the device: With the BlackBerry device powered ON, remove the battery a few seconds and then reinsert the battery to reboot.
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Is anyone else having issues with music randomly starting on iOS 7.1?

I've had this issue since I downloaded iOS 7.1. My music will just randomly start playing without me clicking play and sometimes without any of my music apps even open. I catch it the most when I get into my car and connect to my Bluetooth. It connects and then starts playing so I have to pull my phone out and pause it. Last night I used my flash light and shut my flash light off and my music started playing. It's really getting annoying...

Has any fix been found? I have noticed it as well, even after a hard reset and a reinstall of the system. I mostly notice it when I plug in heaphones (or unplug them) but it has happened other times as well.

My music randomly stops playing while using meetme app.

whenever using my iphone 5s my music will stop playing happans with local music and spotify i contacted apple support and they wanted to bring it in to look at it. any ideas?

Hi,
I am having the same problem with my iPhone ever since I have upgraded to the 1.1.1 firmware. I have had the following problems.
-Music stops playing when surfing the web.
-After listening to music and exiting iPod mode. The play icon in the status bar still appears. To fix this I initiate iPod mode,play,then pause the song and exit ipod mode.
-Bluetooth icon apears in status bar randomly. I just go into settings and turn the bluetooth off. I think this happens when I go in and out of air plane mode.
-Screen freezes. I just wait and it usually unfreezes or I have to reset the device.
I have 3-4 gigs of free space.
and have tried reseting the phone to fix the problems.
Thanks
-James

ITunes randomly starts playing media

My iTunes (10.5.1) will randomly start playing music or podcasts without prompting. In the last 30 min. it has started playing 6 times without me pressing play or interacting w/ iTunes at all. I have a MBP w/ Snow Leopard. It's really a bother when I'm not in my classroom and it interrupts another teacher's lesson! His solution was to close the cover and it stopped. It only seems to happen in the 9 a.m. hour, which is just weird! Anyone else experience this or have any ideas on how to fix it?

So I think I have this figured out. The other teacher is using an Apple Remote to control his Keynote presentation and it not only advances his presentation, but he is starting my iTunes!
Funny. (Also, I feel kind of silly.)

Have a new iphone 5S and music won't play when headphones are plugged in. Restored the phone and tried again without restoring my info. Any ideas on apps that cause this?

I just purchased a new iphone 5s and music would not play on it with headphones plugged in. They replaced the phone for me but it continued to do this. So I restored the phone and tried to play music on youtube before I restored all my settings and apps....Any suggestions on common apps that may cause this?

We have tried 3 different brands of headphones, including the apple set and auxiliary audio cord.
Also, music works fine before I load all my apps, hence why I ask if anyone knows about any kind of certain apps causing this.

I have new iPhone 4s and music will not play I can pull my So we are totally on one water filtration system and the other one has been taken down?music up and hit the play button and it dose nothing!

I have new iPhone 4s and music will not play I can pull my music up and hit the play button and it dose nothing!

Have you tried resetting your device by pressing and holding the Home button and power button until the silver apple appears?
And, just out of curiosity, what doe water filtration systems have to do with this?
Best of luck.

IPad randomly started playing music

No joke. I was watching a video on Netflix, and this music started playing. I thought it was a part of the show until it played through the intro of the series. So I hit the home button and it stopped. It hasn't done it again but it was creaking strange. It wasn't even a song I own. It was piano instrumental. This happen to anyone else???

I can't figure out how you started music playing.
In silent mode, iPhone doesn’t ring or play alerts and other sound effects. However, clock alarms, audio apps such as iPod, and many games still play sounds through the built-in speaker when iPhone is in silent mode.
See page 13 of the iPhone iOS4 User Guide

IPod app randomly starts playing

Anyone have this happen? The iPod app starts up randomly, even if the phone is in sleep mode. Any solutions?
I have tried several hard reboots, and the problem persists.

This has happened to me several times also and I never can figure out why. It happened again today and here is what I was doing...in case someone from Apple reads this.
I was listening to music. I hit pause and exited the Ipod. I then put the Iphone into the sleep mode or whatever it is called with the button on top.
I left my headphones in because I was in a really noisy area and I was expecting a call.
I was wearing Sony earbuds with no microphone or anything else special...just earbuds.
Well after about 30 minutes...boom...the ipod just suddenly comes on and starts playing music while it is in my pocket.....
Apple please help....

Spotify randomly starts playing tracks by itself.

Hi all,I'm hoping someone can help me with this. It is becoming enough for me to want to cancel my premium subscription and switch to another service as it is extremely annoying. Typical behaviour:Example 1:- I play tracks from an album.- I pause mid-way through a track, lock my machine and briefly walk away- I return to my machine to hear it playing random (yet similar) songs that I have never listened to before. Usually weird ambient sound scape such as the sound of people drinking in a bar or nature. Example 2: - I am listening to an album, suddenly the same random ambient sound tracks will start playing. If I look at spotify connect - I can see there is an option for "Spotiamb 0.2.1" - this is something I have never installed and have no idea what it is. Could this be somehow related? Any help would be much appreciated. Another user is getting this exact same issue: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Random-unsolicited-song-hijacks-plays-automatically

I'm having the same issues. My girlfriend got up around 3am the other morning because she heard my ipod touch play songs (32 GB, 3rd generation) as well. I'm also having problems with video sorting. For example: I have 3 seasons of this show called The Mighty Boosh (good show btw) and it is sorting by episodes. It's hard to explained:
1st season has 8 episodes
2nd season 6
3rd season 6
So it is sorting: episode 1 from season 2, episode 1 from season 3, episode 1 from season 1 and then episode 2 from season 2 and blah blah blah, you get the picture don't you?
I called apple and I did a reset to factory setting and put all 20 episodes back in and the problem is still there. It all started when I updated ipod to 3.1.1 ver or what ever the last ver. one was and the new itunes 9. But the songs playing by itself is something that I have yet found out why is doing it. And its like evey few hours. I would hate to return it and get a refurbish because this was brand new and thats what exactly what the are going to do if I return it. So I am hoping that it is a ver. issue or maybe new itunes related so I won't have to return it and get a refurbished one.

Music randomly stops playing (same problem in multiple apps)

Since a few days, my Z1C will randomly stop playing sound, while I'm listening music. It will do this up to multiple times per minute, seems somewhat like a online game lagging really badly, after which it will just pause.
It does this on multiple apps (I tried it on the following
- Spotify
- Walkman (or whatever the music app is called now)
- Audible (audiobooks)
The issue happens both when I listen through my bluetooth headphones (Jaybird bluebuds x) as well as on speaker.
I have had the phone for somewhat more than a year now, I recon. The headphone jack is broken because of my own rough handling, but that wasn't a big deal so far because I use bluetooth anyway.
Anyone know what to do about this?

Hi Bmot,
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You could try booting the device in to safemode, at least this way you can find out if software is the suspect or if it is more likely hardware.
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When I'm browsing the internet, my macbook randomly starts playing the audio of video's I've watched before.

It's happened at least three times now, I'll just be browsing through my regular websites, and then suddenly through my headphones I'll hear the audio of a video I watched somewhat recently, (like 1-3 days). It happened today, I was scrolling through some website, and then it just started playing the "Trolololol" song. I only had that one tab open, and there were no other programs that could have possibly done it. I can't help but think there's a virus, or somebody toying around with me. HELP!

Hi..
Doubt it's a virus...
If you are using Safari, open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type this exactly as you see it here:
~/LibrarySafari
Click Go
Move these files from the Safari folder to the Trash.
LastSession.plist
History.plist
Downloads.plist
Quit then relaunch Safari to test.

IPhone 5 iOS7.0.4 Music Randomly Stops Playing

Beginning the week of 12/24/13, when listening to phone's Music app, or Amazon Cloud Player, songs will stop at random times. Sometimes 10 seconds in, sometimes 1:30 minutes in. No particular reason, just stops.
I did the following:
Shut down apps completely and restarted
Shut phone done completely and restarted
Adjusted settings so that only music downloaded to phone was being shown (nothing from the cloud)
Connected to iTunes and un-synced all apps, music, movies, etc so that there was basically nothing on the phone. Then re-synced all.
Restored phone from backup
Problem still exists.
I would do a factory reset, but if the issue is with the software, then reinstalling bugging software wouldn't do any good.
I've looked through this community board for other suggestions and think I've done all of them that have been presented. Looking for additional assistance.
Note: I've been streaming music from Slacker app this morning and had no problems, which leads me to believe it's something with the software.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2755
Do you know that SMS is a carrier feature and not an Apple feature, so when you contacted your phone carrier what did they say?

Music album cover images and track titles show on iPhone 4s but music doesn't play - any ideas?

I am a Young at Heart Senior, new to iPhone 4s, have an old creaking pc with Windows XP Home.....but plan to enter the real world any day soon by buying a new Mac!
Here is my problem, I purchased an album on iTunes and mistakenly started to sync it to my phone, (although I don't have iCloud loaded on my pc). I stopped it mid download and later noticed that the total track numbers were showing as a red number above the "more" button as if they were waiting to complete the download. It stayed there while I thought about it for a few days, but when I click the Album button all the tracks are listed.
Now to the funny part.....when I click on a track or indeed any of them, it doesn't play a sound...but the progress bar above moves as if "now playing".
So, I thought.... no problem, I would connect the phone up to iTunes and delete the tracks....but when I do so, this album and none of it's track titles show in my music list for the phone......weird.
So, I have a large album with titles only on my phone, no music behind the titles (which, incidentally, is rubbish anyway) and I can't get rid of it off my phone, any of you young whizzy iPhoners have any ideas how to clear it off???
I did think I might just Restore my phone, but wondered whether downloading all my stuff from iCloud would still include the dreaded "Now That's What I Call Christmas" album, which I only purchased in late 2011 to play at a seniors Xmas party...........you live and learn!
You will guess from my ramblings that I am not at all techy, but consider myself willing to learn and apart from this hiccup........I luuuurve my iPhone!

If you have all your music on the cmputer then i would connect up my phone uncheck the Sync Music option and apply.
This should take all the music off your phone .Then you can resync the music back on to it.
If this doesn't work maybe a restore to factory settings and start from scratch is the way to go

Randomly starts playing

This has been happening for a while now but I've lost all tolerance. When I'm done listening to my iPod touch I'll put it on the desk, a while later I can hear the music start up again. Nothing touches it but it starts randomly playing for seemingly no reason. Oddly if I unplug the earbuds it won't play. Does anyone no whats going on and how to fix this? (Don't tell me to just unplug the earbuds every time)

Mine does it to....only with the mic headphones plugged in.
Check this thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2172417&tstart=390
Seems like a software update could fix the issue. I just unplug my headphones for now.

IPhone 4 - My music randomly starts playing

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