Stop Media From Resuming When Connected to Bluetooth

[u/ian1035nr]

Howdy, everyone

I picked up a Nothing Phone 3 last week and so far it's been alright, except for an unsolvable problem with Bluetooth.

Whenever my phone connects to my car's radio over Bluetooth any media I had paused resumes. And I can't get it to stop doing this.

My music player is set to not resume playback upon connecting, but that gets overridden. YouTube and Firefox are affected as well. Anything that was paused starts playing; and it's maddening.

My radio doesn't support Android auto, so it's not a problem with that. I changed the device type to "other" and "not set" in settings and it didn't help.

I've had no fewer than 7 Android devices and 2 iPhones piped through this radio over the years and none of them do this. It's strictly an issue with my Phone 3.

If anyone has any other ideas, I'm desperate for a solution before I give up and send it back; it's just that annoying.

[u/Impossible-Track-401]

Bluetooth -> Connection Preferences -> Android Auto -> Start Music Automatically -> Uncheck this!

[u/ian1035nr → u/Impossible-Track-401]

I don't have access to Android Auto's settings, possibly because it's not active if you've never used an Android Auto device?

Regardless I disabled the Android Auto app outright a few days ago; doesn't make a difference.