Prevent AirPods from opening Mac's Music (iTunes) app?
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.