Annoying Toyota Bluetooth autoplay-iPhone disable

[KrisZ]

Note: This is not for CarPlay. It's just normal bluetooth connection. CarPlay may not behave this way.

What is happening is that when you play music from your phone using the bluetooth connection, you shut off your car without changing the source, the next time you get into the car the music will resume.

This feature is annoying and I'm not sure how it is handled by other makes, but with Toyota there is no way to turn it off.
I would like my phone to still connect to bluetooth, but without auto starting the music playback. I wan to control this by myself.

After some googling there doesn't appear to be a solution, at least for iPhones.

I thought to give the iOS Shortcuts a try. And I'm happy to report it works. Granted I had to give the shortcut automation a 1 second delay, other radios may need 2 or 3 seconds, so you get a short burst and then the music stops. I can live with that. Otherwise you're scrambling to pause it either on the phone or the radio screen which isn't too responsive.

Here is the shortcut logic and you pair it to when the device connects to Bluetooth and you have to select your car's radio.
Also make sure the Automation is set to "Run Immediately", otherwise it will wait for your prompt.

If there is anyone with more knowledge on the Shortcuts tool that can manage to remove the time delay, please share it with us.

 

[Nick1994]

I had this issue years ago with my 2015 Sonata.

The solution is to buy this song (I’m not kidding). As the car wants to bring up the first song alphabetically. It’s a silent song. Gives you a 10 min chance to get situated to flip the radio over to another mode.

Worked great for me.

 

[KrisZ]

Haha, that's a nice workaround. Unfortunately, with my Toyota at least, it resumes from the last played song and doesn't start from the beginning.
But I guess I could get the shortcut to play that specific song and then stop, this way it would be totally silent.

 

[OVERKILL]

This is normal with CarPay too. If I'm playing a song on my iPhone in the Jeep or truck, 95% of the time, when I get back in the vehicle, it continues right where it left off when I shut off the vehicle. The remaining 5% of the time, the song is paused.

 

[KrisZ]

I played with it this evening and got the automation more refined, you won’t hear any music playing at all with this one. No need to change the source and you can resume playing whenever you’re ready.

 

[zzyzzx]

It it possible to load a memory card with your music and use that instead of a bluetooth phone connection?

 

[JeffKeryk]

This is normal with CarPay too. If I'm playing a song on my iPhone in the Jeep or truck, 95% of the time, when I get back in the vehicle, it continues right where it left off when I shut off the vehicle. The remaining 5% of the time, the song is paused.

Same with Tesla streaming. I kinda like it.

 

[KrisZ]

Same with Tesla streaming. I kinda like it.

There should be an option in the factory unit to turn that off though. I wouldn't mind if it was set by default to resume play, but give me an option to turn it off if I don't like it.

 

[andrew_j]

I had this issue years ago with my 2015 Sonata.

The solution is to buy this song (I’m not kidding). As the car wants to bring up the first song alphabetically. It’s a silent song. Gives you a 10 min chance to get situated to flip the radio over to another mode.

Worked great for me.

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My daughter bought that song! It makes her iPod connection work in her 2013 Acura ILx as you need a single song in Apple Music to use Spotify over the usb connection.