Speak about a trouble. Turn Off Facebook Autoplay, You hop onto Facebook to capture 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 desire Facebook videos to eat into your regular monthly allowance. Or possibly you were slipping a look on Facebook throughout a conference, and now all eyes are on you because you didn't have your sound soft. So much for being discreet.

 

Turn Off Facebook Autoplay

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

Desktop (by means of 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 option. Keep in mind how the right of the pane has a choice for Auto-Play Videos.

3. Tap on the down arrow to expose 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 only Auto-Play on Wi-Fi connections; this option does exist on a number of the mobile versions of Facebook.

Mobile.

Particular steps vary among the many Facebook app versions throughout various mobile phones. Ultimately, no matter the variation you're utilizing, 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 trying to find is buried within the phone's settings, and is not available 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 get in the settings menu. Scroll down up until you see App Settings. On Samsung phones that still have a devoted 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 alternative. Both App Settings and Settings result in.

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

3. Tap on the choice to expose your choices: On Wi-Fi just (a choice that keeps Auto-play enabled, but just when you're linked through a Wi-Fi network, consequently conserving precious megabytes from your mobile data strategy), and Off.

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