How to disable random music playback on Xiaomi devices: the full guide

Why does the music turn on on by itself?

Have you ever encountered a situation where a Xiaomi or Mi TV phone suddenly starts playing music without you? Not only is it annoying, it can lead to awkward moments — for example, during an important meeting or on public transport. The reasons for this behavior are diverse, from MIUI malfunctions to conflicts of applications accessing media files.

Most of the time, the background processes that scan music folders and automatically add tracks to playlists are to blame, especially after updating firmware or installing new apps, such as Mi Music, Google Play Music, or even YouTube Music, can arbitrarily run playbacks if they're allowed to access the storage, but the problem is solved — and we'll tell you how.

Method 1: Disabling Autoplay in MIUI settings

The most obvious method is to block autostart directly in system settings, which works on most Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO smartphones running MIUI 12-15 or HyperOS.

Here's the step-by-step instruction:

1. Open the Settings → Applications.
2. Select Application Management → Auto-start.
3. Find music-related apps (Mi Music, Google Play Music, Spotify, etc.) in the list.
4. Turn off the slider in front of each of them.

If your firmware version does not have AutoStart, try an alternative path:

• 🔍 Settings → Battery and productivity → Battery consumption management → Choice of applications → Turn off auto-start for music services.
• ⚙️ Settings → Special facilities → Rumor → Turn off automatic sound playback (if any).

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Method 2: Limiting permissions for music applications

Often the problem lies in the excessive rights that users accidentally grant to applications. For example, Mi Music can automatically scan folders and play files if it has access to storage and autorun.

How to limit permissions:

1. Go to Settings → Applications → Application Management.
2. Select a problem app (such as Mi Music).
3. Press Permissions and turn off: 📁 Storage (if you don’t need to scan files) 🔊 Change the sound settings 📱 Auto-start

Notifications

For Google Play Music or YouTube Music, it is also recommended to turn off Background activity in the battery settings.This will prevent the application from spontaneously starting when connecting headphones or on a schedule.

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If after the permissions are limited, the application stopped working correctly, try first to clear its cache in Settings → Apps → Storage → Clear the cache.

Method 3: Removing or disabling the standard Mi Music player

MIUI firmware has a default Mi Music system player, which is often a source of problems, and cannot be completely removed without root rights, but can be disabled or replaced with a third-party one.

Instructions for unsetting:

1. Open Settings → Applications → Application Management.
2. Find Mi Music (or Music)
3. Click Disable (if the button is active) or Remove Updates.
4. Clear Cash and Data.

If you can’t disable the application, you can hide it with the help of ADB-commands (computer required):

adb shell pm hide com.miui.player

To return it, use:

adb shell pm unhide com.miui.player

Method 4: Configure playback when connecting headphones

Many users complain that music automatically turns on when wired or Bluetooth headphones are connected, and this is due to the Autoplay feature when you connect a device that you can turn off.

How to do this:

• 🎧 For wired headphones: Open Settings → Connected devices → Headphones, turn off the Autoplay audio option.
• 🔵 For Bluetooth headphones: Go to Settings → Bluetooth, press the icon. ⚙️ next to the connected device. Turn off Autoplay Media.

If you don't have those options, check the settings in the music app itself. For example, Spotify or YouTube Music have separate options for autoplay when you connect your devices.

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Method 5: Reset audio settings (for Xiaomi TV and smartphones)

If the problem persists, the system's audio settings may have gone wrong, in which case resetting media settings will help, a method that is suitable for smartphones, Mi TV or Redmi TV.

For smartphones:

1. Open Settings → System → Resetting settings.
2. Select Reset Application Settings (does not delete data!).
3. Confirm the action.

For Xiaomi TV:

1. Go to Settings → Sound.
2. Select Resetting Sound Settings.
3. Confirm and restart the TV.

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Resetting audio settings does not delete your files, but can reset individual equalizer and volume settings.

If the reset didn’t help, try clearing the cache of system applications:

• 📱 On a smartphone: Settings → Warehouse → Clear cache for Mi Music and Media Storage.
• 📺 On TV: Settings → Annexes → Application management → Clear the data for TV Music.

Additional measures: check the file system and viruses

Sometimes the cause of spontaneous reproduction are:

• 🦠 Viruses or malware masquerading as music files.
• 🗃️ Damaged media files in Music or Downloads folders.
• 🔄 Conflicts between apps (e.g. Mi Music and the likes of the game) VLC).

How to check:

1. Install an antivirus (such as Dr.Web or Malwarebytes) and scan the device.
2. Move all music files from the Music, Ringtones, and Downloads folders to another location (e.g. Documents).
3. Check if suspicious applications are installed in Settings → Apps → Unknown sources.

If the music continues to turn on even after deleting all files and applications, the cause may be a hardware failure (for example, an audio chip malfunction).

Comparison of methods: which way to choose?

Depending on the cause of the problem, the effectiveness of the methods varies.

If you are not sure of the cause, start with Method 1 (disable autostart) and gradually move on to more radical measures.

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On HyperOS devices (such as Xiaomi 14 or Redmi K70), the paths to settings may differ. If you don't find the right item, search Settings (the magnifier icon at the top).

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