It doesn't really matter to me whether or not it requires confirmation, although I have personally seen no difference in its behavior between iOS 13.1.1 and 13.1.2. The existence of the automation seemingly prevents the music player from starting, as if the automation interferes with the starting of the music player. Although the notificiation of the automation (which cannot be disabled) is an annoyance, the music player never starts on my phone, so I never get it showing on my lock screen. This notification is way more tolerable than the music player starting every time I open a door.
Well, shoot! My iPhone is now starting music again every time it connects to the car. Now I have that panel AND the notification of the automation popping up every time. Since the automation doesn't really accomplish anything (the music player always starts up paused anyway), I disabled it. I wish I could figure out why is wasn't starting up and now does.
Well, I have a better understanding of the sequence of events now that leads to whether the music player starts automatically or not.
For iPhones anyhow, if you go to the Bluetooth device list, click the (i) next to the device, a menu appears allowing you to disconnect or forget the device. (You have to be connected to the device) I do that when I want to disconnect from my speaker and let someone else connect without having to turn it off and turn it back on. Just as an experiment, I wonder if you did that if it would return the connection to the state it is in right after an OTA update to the car.
Just tested this. Result was not auto-play but “Choose medium from phone“ appeared in the media player. That is an improvement. Earlier today the podcast app did start playing the arbitrarily “next” one when I got in the car with the app having been open but not the last active app. Not great but I’ll take it.
