With videos becoming an extensive part of our web browsing, it’s no surprise that all the social networks are making sure you don’t miss out on any videos. While we appreciate the new video-centric features of social networks, we most certainly do not appreciate the auto playing videos. All major social media networks including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram have videos set to autoplay.
Facebook natively allows you to disable autoplay videos and that’s really appreciated. Here’s how to stop autoplay videos on Facebook web and its Android & iOS apps.
Facebook Web
- Open Facebook and login to your account. Then, Go to “Settings“.
Facebook Android App
- Facebook iOS App
How to stop autoplay videos on Instagram
Instagram lacks a dedicated tool to disable auto-play videos in its entirety. But if you want to save mobile data, you can activate the ‘Use Less Data’ option to stop videos from preloading in your feed, but do keep in mind that it won’t stop videos from autoplaying. Here’s how you can do it:
Facebook iOS App
Twitter Web
Twitter Android App
Twitter iOS App
How to stop autoplay videos on YouTube
- Disable Autoplay Videos on Youtube (Web, Android and iOS)
Twitter Web
Twitter Android App
Twitter iOS App
Disable Autoplay Videos on Youtube (Web, Android and iOS)
1. Open YouTube’s webpage in your browser or Android/iOS app and play any random video.
How to stop autoplay videos on various websites and blogs
Autoplay videos on webpages can be disabled by fiddling through various browser settings. The autoplay videos can be disabled by changing flash settings since most videos run on Shockwave Flash. We can change flash settings to make sure that these videos are only played when we want them to. So, here’s how to disable autoplay videos in Chrome and Firefox.
Chrome Web
Open Chrome browser on desktop and press the enter button after entering the “chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy” to directly open the relevant flag page.
Scroll down and find the “Autoplay policy” flag highlighted in yellow. Click on the drop box beside it and tap on “Document user activation is required” to disable autoplay video as well as audio on Chrome. Once you do that, you’ll need to re-launch Chrome browser to activate the new setting.
Firefox
If your browser of choice is Mozilla Firefox, and you’re fed up of autoplaying videos on websites. Here’s how you can prevent videos from autoplaying in Firefox:
In the Firefox URL bar, type ‘about:config.’
- Search for ‘media.autoplay.’
Chrome Autoplay Disable Android
In order to disable autoplay videos on Chrome for Android, just follow the steps below:
- Here, tap on ‘Media’, and then on ‘Autoplay.’
Firefox
If your browser of choice is Mozilla Firefox, and you’re fed up of autoplaying videos on websites. Here’s how you can prevent videos from autoplaying in Firefox:
- Here, double click on ‘media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed’ to change its boolean value from false to true.
Microsoft Edge
If Microsoft Edge is your browser of choice, here is how you can stop autoplaying videos.
Don’t get annoyed by Autoplay Videos anymore
These are the ways to stop autoplay videos and this should give you a lot of relief, as we are aware of the nuisance and unwanted data usage caused by videos autoplaying. As you must have already noticed, stopping autoplay videos on various apps and browsers is pretty easy. So, try them out and do let us know if you have any questions regarding the same. You can surely expect to hear back from us.
