How to Disable Facebook's Automatic play on Android and iPhone

You can disable Facebook Auto play videos to save your data while checking Facebook on Android or iPhone. In addition to this loss of data, these videos will be boring for them where the camera suddenly starts playing the video with sound while scrolling through the page. For these users, Facebook has given an option to disable the automatic playback of the video either completely or videos muted. Some of us will feel that the Auto play function is good, but the sound is boring. Therefore, there are two options regarding these video settings on Facebook. We can either allow Auto play videos without sound, or completely disable automatic playback of videos.

We can choose any convenient option from the available settings. Here we will see how to disable Facebook's automatic play on Android and iPhone.

Stop Facebook autoplay on Android

The settings for Android apps for Android and iOS are slightly different. We will start with the settings of the Android app.

Disable sound on videos played automatically on Facebook

For starters, we need to open the Facebook app on your device. The Facebook App options are available in Settings and we need to open it. Under the Settings page, we will see the application settings in the Help and Settings submenu. Open the app settings there.

The app settings include settings for notifications, videos, and audio settings, links to the Facebook app on your device. There we can find two related parameters Autoplay video. If you just want to turn off audio while still allowing videos to play automatically, turn off "Videos in the news feed Start with sound" using the settings. Autoplay videos will be muted in the news feed of your Facebook app.

Disable Autoplay Facebook Video

If you think that the automatic playback of the video should be completely disabled, the bottom option in the app settings will do the trick.

Select the autoplay setting and the options must be selected from auto play 
1 on Wi-Fi and mobile data connections 
2 On WiFi connections only
3 Never play videos automatically. By default, it will be played in both mobile and WiFi connections. If the purpose of disabling the video option is to backup mobile data, we will choose the second option to play videos only in WiFi. Here we will select the 3rd option to completely disable the automatic playback of videos.

Disable Autoplay Facebook Videos on iPhone

To stop Facebook Video AutoPlay in iOS, we will open the Facebook app and press the button at the bottom right for settings. Scrolling down through the screen will display the Settings menu that we need to open. The Settings menu includes account settings, conversation settings, payment settings, and more. In the Settings menu, select Account Settings. This will open all the general settings based on the application for Facebook. In these settings, we will open "Videos and Photos" to change the settings for automatic playback of the video. In a nutshell, follow this order: iPhone> Facebook app> Tap the bottom right menu button> Scroll down to access Settings> Popup Message> Select Account Settings> Videos & Photos.

The settings under Videos and Photos are more or less similar to the Android version. Tap AutoPlay (AutoPlay> Never Auto Play Videos) to switch from "On Mobile Data + Wi-Fi". This will open another screen where we can select "Never Autoplay Videos".

Now, let's go back and check that the videos do not play automatically while scrolling through the Facebook App news feed. If we want to enable the automatic video playback option, we can go back to the application settings and enable the autoplay option as described above.

Disable Autoplay Facebook Video on the PC browser.

Many of us will have access to Facebook in the browser without these applications. They will also try to disable this function of automatic playback of the video. This process is much simpler than the application settings. Open "Settings" after logging into Facebook. To disable Autoplay, we will open "Videos" in the "Settings" window. It will directly open the video settings where we can "disable" the option "Auto-play video" option.

Autoplay is a better option to take a closer look at videos as you scroll through the news feed so you can select and watch the best ones. Offer the option, disable the Auto-Play video in Facebook is a good shot of Facebook for those who find it boring.

You can completely disable the Auto Play Videos feature on Facebook, which can keep you away from annoying videos when you scroll down the Facebook page.