Originally Posted by eXstasy

I haven't been able to find that option in COMAND. It's definitely annoying, and I think it's an issue with iOS (https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/13/1...le-silent-song)
unfortunately, I found out directly from the Mercedes Corporation office in Fontana California that there is no way to turn off autoplay. The newer cars don't have it, but because iPods were big back in 2010 when my car was made, they didn't think that you would need to turn off autoplay. So it seems like my choices are limited to getting a newer car, swapping out my iPhone for an android phone (which I don't know why I would want to do since even the iPhone 7 is faster than the S9) or go back to using the Bluetooth device I was using before, which uses auxiliary cable instead of connecting through the MMI. It's connecting through the MMI that is causing the autoplay to work.

Even though I deleted all the music off of my phone, it still tries to open Apple music. I really thought of your other options including turning off cellular streaming for Apple music an turning off car play, but unfortunately neither of those did any good. And even if I open Spotify or Tidal, the autoplay affects them as well, so it doesn't let me pause the music. So it seems like less of a headache to use my older Bluetooth device and return the MMI compatible device. That's a shame because the music probably sounds better through the digital connection, but what good is that if it's constantly driving me nuts? Fortunately, I also have the Apple watch 3, which lets me remotely control the songs on my phone, so that I don't have to keep on going back to the streaming app just to be able to change songs. Actually when I connected the MMI, it disabled this function and actually would only show Apple music on the car display.

I guess the bottom line is, technology has moved on, but the command unit is older and not really set up for this. So my advice is to just use a Bluetooth receiver that goes through the auxiliary instead of the MMI connection and that will solve your autoplay problem.

From here, I tried the "Turn off Carplay" option but it did not work.
https://www.imore.com/how-stop-music...aying-your-car

I think for you, since you've already deleted all of your music off of the phone, you should try the following:
http://osxdaily.com/2017/07/29/stop-...car-bluetooth/

I would try this myself but it would just revert to playing the local music on my phone, which I do not want to delete.

Originally Posted by Ludedude

This is easy. Don't leave it on media/bluetooth mode, then it won't autoplay. Leave it on sat or regular radio.

There is no disable auto-play for bt audio just like there is no disable auto-play for the radio or disc modes. If it was on when you got out, it will be on the next time you get in.