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How to Disable Video from Playing Automatically on Facebook

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How to Disable Auto Play on Facebook

Videos have been on the rise on Facebook as more and more content producers uploading video content on the Facebook platform. If you have your Facebook settings at default, any video that you scroll in your feed will start to play automatically. You do not need to press start to view the video. This is one of the ways Facebook wants you to view more content on their platform.

However, there are some advantages and disadvantages of having the Auto-play on. Here we are going to show you step by step how you can disable the function.

WHY DISABLE AUTO-PLAY?

Here are some reasons why you should disable the auto-play

  1. TO SAVE INTERNET DATA – Videos can take a lot of data from your internet plan. Therefore disabling auto-play would help you save up some of the data and only play any video that you are interested when you are on Wi-Fi mode
  2. TO SAVE PHONE BATTERY – Videos can also take up a lot of battery juice. If you do not want your phone to run out of battery power, it is better to disable the auto-play.

So, if you are interested to learn how to disable it, here are the steps.

Step 1

At your Facebook, tap at the three-line below to go to Settings

Step 2

At Settings, scroll down and tap “Settings & Privacy”

Step 3

At Settings & Privacy, tap “Settings”

Step 4

In Settings, scroll down and tap at “Videos and photos”

Step 5

At Videos and photos, tap at “Auto-play”

Step 6

Choose “Never Auto-play Videos” to disable the video auto-play

So, there you have it – Simple steps how you can disable the automatic playing of the videos on Facebook. Leave us a comment below on what other Facebook default settings that you want to disable.

Please also read our previous article on how to block and unblock people on Facebook.

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