Welcome to community!
To clarify your experience, you connect your Android to your Ford with Bluetooth, and when you try to play Pandora and use the playback controls, the system disconnects you and starts the radio instead. Is that correct?
Couple of follow up questions:
Thanks for the help!
Pandora Link works but only until you press a control on radio. No android auto on f350. It works to play from phone. But doesn't allow use of controls on sync radio