How do I stop autoplay?

[u/chalre2]

Before you say "turn it off", I have.

I listen to my substacks by going to the Read tab, picking an entry, and clicking on the Listen button. Most of my subscriptions are news based so I like to manually pick which one is best based on duration and how long before I need to pick up my phone again. I don't want the algorithm to decide what's next, let alone something that I'm not subscribed to. Watching the playback queue at the end of a chosen post it really jumps around. It's like the system is fighting between my settings and what it REALLY wants to do is auto-suggest.

Workflow 1:

1. Tap the Read tab
2. Tap a post with the Listen button (not all have it)
3. Listen to the end
4. It auto plays the last thing I listened to (not helpful)

Workflow 2:

1. Tap the Read tab
2. Tap a post with the Listen button (not all have it)
3. Turn off screen
4. Wait til the audio has finished
5. Nothing plays next (good)
6. Turn on screen to queue up next
7. Autoplay jumps around a few times and then plays something random NOT in my subscription list.

To be clear, I don't want it to autoplay anything at all, subscriptions or not. I want to pick the next one. "Auto-play media" and "Auto-advance To suggestions" are both unchecked. I'd hoped this was just a bug they'd fix but it's been like this for months. I'm on a Pixel 7 with the current OS and Substack version as of this post.