How To Stop Videos From Auto Play On Facebook – Facebook recently enabled auto playing videos on its website and apps and this feature is great if you watch a lot of videos and have a fast Internet connection with a generous data cap. However, many people are likely to find auto playing videos annoying, especially because they start playing even when you’re just scrolling down and don’t pause at the video. It can waste data, and sometimes people will share videos that you would rather just not see, but avoiding them when they start playing in front of you without warning can be difficult.
How To Stop Videos From Auto Play On Facebook
It’s actually possible to disable the auto play quite easily, though the settings aren’t very obvious at first glance. Don’t worry though – whether you want to disable auto playing videos on the Facebook website or Android or iOS apps, we’ve got you covered. Follow these steps to stop Facebook videos from automatically loading and playing.
So, if you really don’t like this new Facebook feature, here is an article that will teach you how to stop videos from auto-playing on Facebook, this settings can also be reversed in case you later have a change of mind toward it. The article treats the steps to stop auto play both on your PC and on your mobile devices.
If you are using Facebook on the Web (desktop browser):
1) Go to Facebook’s video settings page when you are logged into your Facebook account.
2) Click the button to the right of Auto-play Videos and choose Off from the drop down menu.
If you are using the Facebook app for Android, use the following steps to stop Facebook videos from autoplaying:
1) Tap the three horizontal lines icon.
2) Scroll down and tap App Settings.
3) Tap Video Auto-play.
4) Tap Off to stop videos from automatically playing, or Wi-fi only if it’s okay for videos to autoplay when you are on Wi-Fi.
ON MOBILE DEVICE
- Login to your Facebook account from your Facebook application
- From the news feed, click on the option button (three small dots) at the top right corner
- Click on app settings
- From here, you will see the auto play options, click on it
- Then you can choose either with Wi-Fi or mobile data, you can make Facebook video auto play whenever you are connected to Wi-Fi but not auto play when you are using mobile data, you can also switch off auto play in both conditions.
- To reverse this settings, all you need to do is visit the settings again and switch auto play on, it is as easy as putting it off at first.
- You can now enjoy Facebook while maximizing your mobile data and without the fear of viewing things you shouldn’t have viewed.
If you are using the Facebook app for iPad, use the following steps to stop videos from automatically playing:
1) Tap the three horizontal lines icon labelled More near the bottom right corner.
2) Scroll down and tap Account Settings.
3) Tap Videos and Photos.
4) Tap Auto-play.
5) Tap Never Auto-play Videos to completely stop Facebook videos from automatically playing, or On WiFi Connections Only if you don’t mind videos auto playing when you are on Wi-Fi.
You have one less annoying thing in your life now that Facebook videos auto play is disabled. For more tutorials, visit our How To section.