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

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.

It is annoying to say the least, considering there are times when we are just casually browsing on our favorite social network and all of a sudden a video starts playing. It is even more annoying when webpages play videos automatically and we scramble around searching where is the sound coming from. The autoplay videos also make sure that ourlimited mobile data bandwidthgets sucked in pre-loading those videos. The autoplay videos are especially a hassle when we are browsing at work, classes or at places where silence is a priority. The good news is there are ways to stop autoplay videos. Here’s how you can do it:

How to stop autoplay videos on Facebook

How to stop autoplay videos on Facebook

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

1.Open Facebook and login to your account. Then, Go to “Settings“.

2.In Settings, go to “Videos” tab andturn offAuto-play videos.

Facebook Android App

Facebook iOS App

How to stop autoplay videos on Instagram

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:

  1. Open the Instagram app,tap on the profile iconfollowed by the hamburger menu button at the top. Now tap on the cog wheel icon to open the ‘Settings‘ menu. Here, tap on ‘Mobile Data Use.’

  2. On the “Mobile data use” page, tap on the“Use Less Data”option.

How to stop autoplay videos on Twitter

Twitter Web

Twitter Android App

Twitter iOS App

How to stop autoplay videos on YouTube

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.

2.You will seean autoplay button turned onon the upper right corner. Justturn 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

Alternatively, you can download and activate the “Disable HTML5 Autoplay (Reloaded)” Chrome extension to disable autoplay videos. You can download the extension from the official Chrome extension storehere.

Chrome Autoplay Disable Android

In order to disable autoplay videos on Chrome for Android, just follow the steps below:

  1. Here, tap on‘Media’,and then on‘Autoplay.’

  2. Turn off the toggle to disable autoplaying videos on Chrome on Android.

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. Search for ‘media.autoplay.’

  2. Here,double click on ‘media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed’to change its boolean value fromfalse 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. Here, click on ‘Advanced Settings.’

  2. 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.

Devinder

Co-founder, Beebom

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