Discuss a trouble. Stop Facebook Videos From Autoplaying, You hop onto Facebook to catch up on your newsfeed, and unexpectedly, 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 monthly allowance. Or perhaps you were slipping a look on Facebook during a meeting, and now all eyes are on you since you didn't have your sound soft. So much for being discreet.

 

Stop Facebook Videos From Autoplaying

Luckily, even though Facebook does not make it obvious, there are ways to disable the auto-play feature, for both Web and mobile gain access to. All set to go back to video when you demand it? Take these actions to recover control over your Facebook feed.

Desktop (by means of Web web browser).

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

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

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

Mobile.

Specific steps vary amongst the lots of Facebook app variations throughout various mobile gadgets. Eventually, no matter the version you're utilizing, we suggest 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 typical for iOS apps.

1. Enter your Facebook app on Android and tap the three horizontal lines at far right 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 home 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 lead to.

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

3. Tap on the option to expose your options: On Wi-Fi only (an option that keeps Auto-play made it possible for, but just when you're linked through a Wi-Fi network, thereby saving valuable megabytes from your mobile information plan), and Off.

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