How To Stop Annoying Autoplay Videos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Other Sites

1. Tap on the hamburger menu icon on the top left corner of the screen and scroll down to find “Settings and Privacy”. Click on “Settings” in the drop-down menu.

2. In the “Settings” section, scroll down and tap on the “Media and Contacts” option.

3. In the “Media and Contacts” section, tap on “Autoplay” to open the autoplay video preferences.

4. On the “Autoplay” settings page, select the “Never Autoplay Videos” to disable auto-playing videos in your Facebook feed.

1. Tap on the hamburger menu icon on the top left corner of the screen and scroll down to find “Settings and Privacy”. Click on “Settings” in the drop-down menu.

2. Scroll down in the “Settings” section and tap on the “Videos and photos” option below the “Media and contacts” header.

3. On the “Videos and photos” settings page, tap on the “Auto-play” option.

4. Click on “Never Auto-play Videos” on the “Auto-play” preferences page to disable auto-playing videos in feed.

1. Open Twitter on web, tap on the profile photo at the top right corner of the screen and select “Settings and privacy”.

2. On the “Settings and Privacy”, uncheck the box besides the “Video autoplay” option below the “Content” header.

1. Open the Twitter app for Android, swipe left to open the slide-out menu and tap on “Settings and privacy”.

2. Scroll down and tap on the “Data usage” option below the “General” header.

3. On the “Data usage” page, select “Video autoplay” below the “Video” header.

4. After tapping on “Video autoplay”, select “Never” from the drop-down menu.

1. Open the Twitter app for iOS, swipe left to open the slide-out menu and tap on “Settings and privacy”.

2. Scroll down and tap on the “Data usage” option below the “General” header.

4. On the “Video autoplay” page, tap on the “Never” option to disable auto-play videos in your feed.

1. Open YouTube’s webpage in your browser or Android/iOS app and play any random video.

2. You will see an autoplay button turned on on the upper right corner. Just turn it off.

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

1. Open Chrome browser on desktop and press the enter button after entering the “chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy” to directly open the relevant flag page.
2. 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:

1. In the Firefox URL bar, type ‘about:config.’

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2. Search for ‘media.autoplay.’

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3. Here, double click on ‘media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed’ to change its boolean value from false to true.

That’s it, Firefox will now always ask you before playing videos on any website.

• Microsoft Edge

If Microsoft Edge is your browser of choice, here is how you can stop autoplaying videos.

1. In Edge, click on the three dot button on the top right, and click on ‘Settings.’

2. Here, click on ‘Advanced Settings.’

3. Under ‘Media Autoplay‘ select ‘Block.’

That’s it, Microsoft Edge will not autoplay videos any more.

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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.