Stop Autoplay On Facebook 2018

Bear in mind the days when Facebook Videos just played when you clicked on them? If you want to go back to that far better age, all you have to do is toggle a couple of tucked-away Settings to stop the auto-play madness - Stop Autoplay On Facebook.


Auto-playing Videos are frustrating at best (perhaps you didn't want that video clip to start playing before everyone in sight of your screen) as well as data-wasting at worst (perhaps you really did not wish to burn up that data on a video clip you didn't even really intend to watch)-- so we absolutely understand if you wish to put an end to it. Let's begin with Facebook's mobile apps and afterwards move onto the desktop for complete coverage.

Stop Autoplay On Facebook


Ways To Disable Auto-Play on Mobile Tools

To disable auto-playing video clip on Facebook's mobile applications, we should head over to the Settings menu. We're using iphone for this tutorial, but the option is the same on both iOS as well as Android. Select the menu symbol to access your Settings.


Select "Settings" in the resulting menu.


Select "Account Settings" in the pop up menu.


Select "Videos and Photos" from the Account Settings menu.


Within the "Videos and Photos" menu select "Autoplay".


There you can toggle the Settings between always playing no matter the network, only auto-playing on Wi-Fi, and never. Select "Never Autoplay Videos".


How You Can Disable Auto-Play on the Desktop

No have to quit our war there - let's invest an added couple of seconds to do away with it on the desktop computer as well. Log right into your Facebook account and click the menu arrow in the upper right corner. Select "Settings".


Within the Settings menu, choose "Videos" from all-time low of the left hand navigation pane.


Within the "Video Settings" menu, pick the drop down box close to "Auto-Play Videos" as well as toggle it to "Off".


With that said fast modification, auto-playing Videos are currently a thing of the past.