Discuss a bother. How To Turn Off Facebook Video Autoplay, You hop onto Facebook to catch up on your newsfeed, and all of a sudden, there's a video playing, without you tapping a thing. Perhaps your bandwidth is metered and you do not want Facebook videos to consume into your regular monthly allowance. Or possibly you were sneaking an appearance on Facebook throughout a conference, and now all eyes are on you due to the fact that you didn't have your sound muted. A lot for being discreet.

 

How To Turn Off Facebook Video Autoplay

Fortunately, despite the fact that Facebook does not make it obvious, there are methods to disable the auto-play feature, for both Web and mobile access. All set to return to video when you require it? Take these actions to reclaim control over your Facebook feed.

Desktop (through Web browser).

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

2. Look along the left navigation pane for the Videos choice. Note how the right of the pane has an alternative for Auto-Play Videos.

3. Tap on the down arrow to expose the options menu. Select whether you want Auto-Play on or off. Keep in mind there is no choice here for the Web-based desktop view to only Auto-Play on Wi-Fi connections; this choice does exist on a number of the mobile versions of Facebook.

Mobile.

Particular steps vary among the lots of Facebook app variants across different mobile phones. Ultimately, despite the variation you're using, we advise you go into the settings menu and look there for a method 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 available through the app itself-- as is normal for iOS apps.

1. Enter your Facebook app on Android and tap the three horizontal lines at far best to get in 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 up a menu at the bottom of the page with its own Settings choice. Both App Settings and Settings result in.

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 (an option that keeps Auto-play made it possible for, but only when you're connected via a Wi-Fi network, therefore conserving precious megabytes from your mobile information strategy), and Off.

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