Spotify audio Auto-playing.

[El_Dude]

I’ve asked in the iPhone subreddit and have looked at the Spotify community but can’t find an working solution. I’m not sure if it’s a Spotify, iPhone, or the Ram’s Bluetooth issue to be honest. Maybe someone here can shed some light or has been through this.

Say I’m listening to Spotify with my iPhone over Bluetooth in my truck one day. The next morning I will use the iPhone Maps app to get somewhere. When the Maps app finishes a sentence in the spoken directions Spotify will automatically start playing the last thing I was listening to. On my phone Spotify isn’t even open. If I swipe up from the very bottom to see all apps open Spotify isn’t there. If I swipe down to see the control center, when Spotify starts playing, I can pause it. But as soon as Maps stop speaking, another direction, Spotify starts playing again. Super annoying

autoplay is already turned off in the Spotify app, and in the Ram’s radio settings.

iPhone 13 Pro max
Ram stereo is the small-screen basic Bluetooth stereo that comes in the SLT

 

[mtnrider]

I F'ing HATE the way Spotify takes over your phone, I have very similar issues with it on android. Drives me crazy.... It's a Spotify issue (they want to call it a "feature"). There is no way to stop Spotify from auto starting on a bluetooth connection. Even if I launch another audio source on the phone and switch to bluetooth on the radio Spotify auto launches and takes over. I have to physically stop it every time.
I've tried all the "tricks" posted online to stop it but no luck

I'd ditch Spotify but the whole family uses it so it's hard for me to get away from it.

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[El_Dude]

My fam is on Spotify too and I've built up my lists and all that crap. ughh i wish there was a way to stop that

 

[Curmudgeon]

"The problem is not that we won't be able to connect. It is that we won't be able to disconnect."

Read in Omni Magazine, circa 1970s.