Talk about a trouble. Stop Facebook Video Autoplay, You hop onto Facebook to catch up on your newsfeed, and unexpectedly, there's a video playing, without you tapping a thing. Possibly your bandwidth is metered and you don't want Facebook videos to eat into your regular monthly allowance. Or possibly you were slipping a search Facebook throughout a conference, and now all eyes are on you due to the fact that you didn't have your sound soft. So much for being discreet.

 

Stop Facebook Video Autoplay

Thankfully, although Facebook doesn't make it apparent, there are methods to disable the auto-play feature, for both Web and mobile access. Prepared to go back to video when you demand it? Take these actions to recover control over your Facebook feed.

Desktop (through Web internet browser).

1. Go to your Facebook page and discover the triangle at the upper right notifications bar. Tap the triangle, and choose Settings.

2. Look along the left navigation pane for the Videos alternative. Keep in mind how the right of the pane has a choice for Auto-Play Videos.

3. Tap on the down arrow to reveal the choices menu. Pick whether you want Auto-Play on or off. Note there is no choice here for the Web-based desktop view to just Auto-Play on Wi-Fi connections; this option does exist on a number of the mobile variations of Facebook.

Mobile.

Particular steps differ among the numerous Facebook app variants across different mobile phones. Eventually, regardless of the variation you're using, we advise you go into the settings menu and look there for a way to disable video Auto-Play.

That's how you'll do it on Android and iPhone, though for iPhone, the Auto-Play setting you're searching for is buried within the phone's settings, and is not accessible via the app itself-- as is common for iOS apps.

1. Enter your Facebook app on Android and tap the 3 horizontal lines at far best to enter the settings menu. Scroll down up until you see App Settings. On Samsung phones that still have a dedicated menu button to the left of the house button (as on the Galaxy Note 3), you can tap on that menu button, and and it will call a menu at the bottom of the page with its own Settings option. Both App Settings and Settings cause.

2. Facebook General Settings page. Here, in the middle of the screen, sits the Video Auto-play choice.

3. Tap on the choice to reveal your options: On Wi-Fi only (a choice that keeps Auto-play made it possible for, however only when you're linked by means of a Wi-Fi network, thus saving precious megabytes from your mobile information plan), and Off.

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