topic Re: [Android] Spotify automatically starts when I connect to Bluetooth in Android

[Android] Spotify automatically starts when I connect to Bluetooth

alan_joga17 — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 06:52:45 GMT

When I start my car and when the phone bluetooth is connected to the car, Spotify starts playing or resumes automatically.
Temporarily I have disconnected audio permission from my phone bluetooth settings so as too any audio except phone calls is not an output from the car speaker.
Just in case if you need the following info.
Phone: Samsung S22 Ultra
Car: Toyota Corolla 2018

Re: [Android] Spotify automatically starts when I connect to Bluetooth

Jose_M — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 11:28:11 GMT

Hello @alan_joga17!

Thanks for reaching out. I believe Android Auto has a feature called Automatically resume media which you should be able to toggle off to prevent this behaviour of Spotify. Let me know if you're able to find this in your car's Android Auto settings.

Have a nice day 🙂

Re: [Android] Spotify automatically starts when I connect to Bluetooth

alan_joga17 — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 06:26:51 GMT

Hello Jose_M,

Thanks for replying to my query. Very much appreciated.

Unfortunately, my car does not have Android Auto settings since it is 2018 model. But I'm sure it would work like you have suggested if the car has this settings.

Thanks again 😊

Re: [Android] Spotify automatically starts when I connect to Bluetooth

Jose_M — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 10:45:34 GMT

Hello @alan_joga17!

Thanks for your reply. The autostart feature depends on how the bluetooth system interacts with Spotify's API and it's usually determined by the bluetooth device's software. However, you can find a few setting options in the floating message of this thread that helped some users fix this.

Let me know if any of them do the trick 🙂

Cant stop Spotify automatically playing in a car.

Sambo80 — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 06:42:24 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

Samsung Flip 3, but happened on Samsung S21 too.

Operating System Android Oreo,

My Question or Issue

Every time I get in ether my car or my wife's car, Spotify automatically starts playing. If the phone is not connected to the stereo it will just play via the phone its self. I've had this before and the advice was delete and reinstall the app, did that and it stopped for a while. Out of nowhere with me making no changes to anything it's started again.

Tried deleting and reinstalling again, tries turning off running in background, all to no avail.

It is driving me nuts and is really dangerous as I end up having to manually turn Spotify off while driving. If you can't help me folks I am definitely cancelling subscription after years of being a Spotify user.

Thanks.

Spotify starts playing music out of nowhere

Dasbum — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:09:20 GMT

In my chevy, disconnect from android auto, spotify was not open or playing, spotify just starts playing through Bluetooth, without even opening up on my phone to see it. Spotify was forced closed previously and not re opened. All auto play features in settings are off. Car thing is off, can't find anything else to turn off to prevent spotify from autoplaying out of nowhere. How to stop this?

Re: [Android] Spotify automatically starts when I connect to Bluetooth

CMac23 — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 07:02:41 GMT

I do not understand after more than 10 years (judged by looking for how many times and for how long this "Please let me really turn OFF the Spotify app! when I want to" kinds of problems have existed. Why is OFF some sort of weird feature request?

Why is there some instead some random explanation as to why OFF is not what we want?

This is very confusing.

Re: [Android] Spotify automatically starts when I connect to Bluetooth

karkasas — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 12:46:51 GMT

My new favourite Spotify button is Force Stop in Android. Everytime before turning on my bluetooth earbuds I do it and it works "like a charm". That combined with preventing background activity for Spotify (it still works in the background, albeit less often, so a bit like malware, sadly).

So,.I use force stop for now, until they fix the app.

Re: [Android] Spotify automatically starts when I connect to Bluetooth

CMac23 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:42:09 GMT

It is hard to believe that even after YEARS of waiting and notice from the users, that this is still not fixed. It is not like the users are asking for much, just add a setting to let us decide to stop Spotify from doing stuff we do not choose.

Holy cow... Such a basic, entry level feature... Even the way they describe the feature is not how it behaves quite often. I use Spotify much less now that I am so tired of it...