How to Prevent Facebook Videos Playing Automatically

Facebook recently enabled the auto-play videos feature. With the help of auto-play, videos automatically start playing as it surfaces on your timeline. Facebook introduced this feature so that users would watch more videos on their sites. Many users find this feature annoying and that’s understandable because it forces you to watch videos which you would generally avoid, and these videos consume a lot of data, and it sometimes becomes disturbing but thankfully there is a disable option to stop these auto-playing videos.

DESKTOP

If you are using Facebook on the desktop, through Settings you can disable auto-play videos. Steps to be followed are:-

1) In the upper right-hand corner of Facebook, go to drop down menu and click on settings and choose videos.

2) Change the “on” option to “off” for auto- play videos.

It’s that simple to turn off your auto-play option in Facebook.

ANDROID

It’s probably annoying when Facebook videos auto-play on your Smartphone as they consume a lot of data. To turn off auto-play on your mobile, follow these steps:-

1) Open Facebook app, go to left sidebar, and then choose “app settings”.

2) Click on “video auto-play” link and choose turn off option.

You can also click on “auto-play videos on WI-FI only” box.

IOS

To disable auto-playing videos on IOS from Facebook settings:-

1) In the bottom right corner, click on the “more” button and, go to settings and choose videos and photos.

2) Click on auto-play setting and turn it off.

So, by following these steps you can turn off the auto-play feature of your Facebook on any device and you don’t have to see any videos you don’t want to.