Apple Music is forcing itself on iPhone docks by kicking out other apps

I had a car with uConnect prior to the airplay integration (or whatever it’s called). There was a point where I was unable to play any music from Spotify or SoundCloud, as after a second or two into playback, it would play the stock U2 song packaged on iPhones at the time. This was incredibly frustrating as most of my music listening habits were done on these two platforms.

Some time later an update to the iPhone resolved this, so as lelandfe mentioned, this is likely a bug.

Comically after some time I grew resentful of this bug and one day my wife was in the passenger seat while I exclaimed “I hate U2”. (I don’t really mind them, but the comment came out anyways). She looked at me confused and concerned before I explained why I made the comment and consoled her that I was referring to the band and not “you too”.

> Users have then tried replicating it and got varying results. Some reported that Apple Music is only kicking third-party apps (and not first-party ones). On the other hand, some users found the Music app replacing the company’s own apps as well

Pretty clearly a bug, and this only happens when reinstalling the app (which I doubt people do very often).

I am not surprised that Tim Sweeney weighed in with a breathless take.