Within the last week, this has started happening to me. I'm randomly finding the player notification running media output. Even when I close it, it comes back. Often, there is a song title there with a play button. It's not actually playing, but Pandora is running in the background without showing in the recently started apps window. I've cleared the data as suggested which only changes the song title to unknown until I sign in again. My android does not have any options for Smart Manage or Auto Start. The only way to get it to stop is to uninstall Pandora. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S10 My android software is version 12 My Pandora is version version: 2310.1 (ANDROID-TUNER 23101040) I've taken snapshots showing what happens when I reboot. Pandora starts itself without having any permissions. Please note that the only reason the Pandora logo is in the bottom tray is because I was trying to resolve this. I haven't used Pandora in my phone in months. This just started on its own.
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