How To Disable Facebook Video Autoplay On Both Mobile And Desktop

acebook recently updated its features and introduced a new video autoplay option for users. With this new feature, videos and video ads on your Facebook page will be automatically played while you are browsing your newsfeed. In other words, a video starts playing when it gets autofocused as you scroll on it. When autoplay was first introduced, there was no settings option. If you were not interested in watching video, you just had to scroll down the page to scroll away from the video.

Though the new feature is beneficial for Facebook’s ad clients, many Facebook users have found this autoplay update distracting. Users with limited data plans were troubled for different reasons. The automatic video streaming can use a high amount of data, which means users need to upgrade to a higher data plan to use Facebook. The only relief is that the video autoplay doesn’t have sound. If you want to watch any specific video, you can just click or tap on it.

Thankfully, Facebook has provided a recent update to disable autoplay. You need to configure this setting separately on every device you use. The following steps will help you in disabling Facebook video autoplay on your desktop and mobile, except you have unlimited data and enjoy the distraction.

1. On Mobile

On Android, launch the facebook app and click on the "3 line" icon on the top left hand side of the screen.

From the the list on the next screen that shows, select the settings option and from the settings screen, tap "Autoplay" to display the autoplay settings.

In autoplay settings, you have the option of allowing autoplay over wi-fi and mobile data, over wi-fi only, or to disable autoplay completely.

 Choose "Never Autoplay Videos" to disable autoplay.

On iOS. Open the main settings on your iOS phone, and tap on the Facebook option from the list and click Settings

From the Settings, you can choose to autoplay on wi-fi only, or turn it off completely.

2. On Desktop 

The process is very easy on desktop.

Simply login to Facebook. From your home screen, click on the "arrow" icon on the top left side of the screen. From the list, click on settings.

while in "settings", you will see a variety of options but you will find the video option at the bottom of the list. Click on it.

From the video settings, you will find the autoplay settings has a simple ON/OFF drop list .Just choose "OFF" to disable autoplay.