How to stop Apple Music’s Autoplay feature | Digital Trends

Autoplay is enabled by default in the macOS version of Apple Music too. Fortunately, it’s just as simple to disable, with one or two variations in terms of where buttons are located:

Step 1: Launch the Apple Music app.

Step 2: Select the three dots and lines icon at the top-right of the dashboard.

Step 3: Select Clear to manually remove all tracks from the Playing Next queue.

When Apple Music is allowed to use mobile data, the app is able to access songs, artists, and albums that aren’t saved locally to your device. You can disable this feature, which forces the app to use Wi-Fi or to only play tracks that are stored on your device, in case you’re trying to save mobile data, for example. Here’s how:

Step 1: Launch the Settings app, then select Music.

Step 2: You should see an option that says Allow Music to Access. Slide the toggle to the off position. That’s all there is to it!

Introduced in iOS 8, Handoff is actually a pretty convenient feature that allows you to sync certain iOS app activities between Apple devices that are signed in with the same Apple ID — such as starting something like an email on one Apple device (Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch) and then picking it up on another device. This also applies to Apple Music automatically playing back.

If you’d like to prevent Handoff from sharing Apple Music info with your other Apple gear, here’s how to disable the feature:

Step 1: Grab your iPhone and launch the Settings app.

Step 2: Select General > AirPlay & Handoff. Now just slide the Handoff toggle to the off position.

As the name would imply, this is a feature that allows CarPlay-compatible vehicles to automatically start playing music from a detected iPhone or iPad. Here’s how to shut it down:

Step 1: Get your iPhone and pop open the Settings app.

Step 2: Select General > CarPlay > Forget This Car. As you can see from my iPhone screenshot, I don’t own a vehicle that supports CarPlay (hence the empty queue).