Prevent AirPods from opening Mac's Music (iTunes) app? How do I prevent my AirPods Pro from launching my Mac's Music App (formerly iTunes) when I squeeze the stem to play?
I wear my AirPods Pro pretty much all day and I'm constantly switching between my  my Mac and my iPhone. If I put the Mac to sleep, and then, forgetting that I'm still connected to my Mac, squeeze the stem to play something on my iPhone, the Music app will launch on my Mac.
I understand what's happening here and I get why it's programmed that way… and I totally understand that it's my fault for forgetting that I'm connected to my Mac and not my iPhone… but it's still annoying. How do I disable this behavior?
I don't believe there's currently a way to disable this.

Squeezing the stem triggers &quot;play&quot; on the device it's connected to, and as of now there is no way to alter this behavior.
Therefore the only solution is to disable &quot;play&quot; from opening Music on your Mac. Unfortunately, solutions to this no longer work with the current version of MacOS.