How to Stop Apple Music from Opening on Mac Randomly

Many Mac users find that the Apple Music app will open randomly and even play music without any action. This behavior of Apple Music randomly opening and playing music is very annoying to many Mac users. This article will explain why Apple Music is open randomly and provides four different solutions.

Why does Apple Music open randomly?

There are two main reasons why Apple Music apps are opened randomly on Mac:

1. Unexpected keyboard or touch bar input: Inadvertent pressing of keyboard media buttons (such as play/pause, back/forward buttons), whether it is the keyboard or Mac's touch bar, may cause Apple Music to open and start playing on its own. The touch bar is easily touched accidentally while typing, causing Apple Music to open unexpectedly. Even on the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or Apple Magic Keyboard used with iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro or Mac Studio, the Play/Pause, and Skip Front and Back buttons may accidentally touch, causing Apple Music to open.

2. Connecting Bluetooth headsets: Many Mac users find that when connecting Bluetooth headsets, AirPods, or similar devices, Apple Music will turn on and start playing on its own. While many users are frustrated by this behavior, it seems to be the expected behavior of Apple Music, not a bug.

How to prevent Music.app from opening/playing randomly on Mac: Four ways

There are several ways to prevent Apple Music.app from opening or playing randomly, whether it is accidentally pressing the play button, connecting a Bluetooth headset, or similar situations.

1. NoTunes: NoTunes can prevent Apple Music (or iTunes) from opening. You can also use NoTunes to specify another application to open, such as Spotify or an application of your choice. The developer describes its functions as follows:

noTunes is a macOS application that can prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching.

Just start the noTunes app and iTunes/Music will not be launched. For example, when the Bluetooth headset is reconnected.

This is a free app that is easy to use on any Mac.

• Get NoTunes for free from Github

2. Music Decoy: Music Decoy is another solution to prevent Apple Music from opening or playing randomly on your Mac. Music Decoy is an app that does nothing, it occupies the position of the Music app, so if you randomly press the play button, nothing will happen.

The developers describe the functions of Music Decoy as follows:

Do nothing. The application does absolutely nothing when it runs. The CPU usage rate is 0% throughout the day.

But as long as it runs, the macOS system won't launch the Music app when you accidentally press the play key.

Even if you try to start it manually, it won't start Music! This may not be a good thing, but... OK.

Note the last line, as it actually disables Apple Music on your Mac, so if you use Apple Music, this may not be your solution.

• Get MusicDecoy for free from Github

3. Remove Apple Music: Another more radical option is to simply remove Apple Music from your Mac. Obviously, this is only needed if you have never used Music.app on your Mac, as deleting it removes the feature and the app itself.

Go to /Applications on your Mac, select Music.app, put it in the trash (or press Command Shift Delete after selecting Music.app), and confirm that you want to delete the app from macOS.

4. Don't press the media button or connect the headset to the Mac: I know, this is a stupid solution, but not pressing the media button on the keyboard or touch bar, and not connecting the headset to the Mac, can also prevent the Music.app from opening or playing. This is the way I use to solve this problem because I listen to music with my iPhone or iPad as well as my headset, not my Mac, and I am careful to avoid pressing the media button on the keyboard or touch bar.

How common is it to open this problem by Apple Music on its own?

A large number of Mac users have found that Apple Music will spontaneously launch and even play music randomly when they don't want it. We receive comments about this issue from time to time, and a large number of these complaints and reports end up on Apple discussion forums and other online forums where users are trying to find solutions to this issue as shown in Examples 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etc.

Since nothing was done to resolve or fix this issue, we can assume that the behavior of Apple Music on Mac is what Apple expected and expected. You can always give feedback directly to Apple, though, and maybe they will change this behavior over time.

Not just a Mac! Automatic music playback will also affect iPhone, iPad, HomePod, etc.

It is worth mentioning that it is not just Mac users who are annoyed by the automatic playback of Music apps. In fact, iPhone users have long complained about automatically playing music when connected to a car Bluetooth stereo system, while HomePod and HomePod mini users often complain that Music will play automatically when accidentally touching the top of the HomePod.

Despite complaints from users about this behavior, the auto-play behavior remains, suggesting that auto-playing music is an expected behavior for Apple products in this case.

How do you think of the Music app turning on itself or seemingly shuffled because it presses a media button, a Bluetooth headset connected to a Mac or other stereo connection? Have you found a solution to this problem? Please let us know in the comments.

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