spotify plays on iphone when airpods are removed from ears

Greetings Matthieufromnew york,

You can follow these steps to enable automatic ear detection for your AirPods:

1. "Wear your AirPods, and make sure they’re connected to your device.

2. Do one of the following:

• On iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Go to Settings , tap the name of your AirPods near the top of the screen, then turn Automatic Ear Detection on or off."

More details here: Change settings for AirPods (1st and 2nd generation)

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Hi Grace2211

Thank you for your reply. However, the automatic ear detection is enabled. I tried disabling then enabling. I've restarted the airpods; restarted the iphone; and it still transfers to playing on the iphone when i take the airpods out of my ears.

To clarify: spotify is playing from my iphone, through my airpods. I take one airpod out, the music stops, then I take the other airpod out. A couple seconds pass with the airpods out of my ears, and then the music continues playing (the same music that was playing in my airpods when i had them in my ears) from the iPhone's speaker. this is with automatic ear detection enabled.

Please help.

Any solution to this? I can't believe disabling a feature is the only thing to do. Seems like it's been going on awhile too, from what I have searched online. Mine does it with pretty much all audio. Apple Podcasts and Spotify are what I use most