{"id":423,"date":"2014-05-09T09:11:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grownuptech.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2024-08-12T18:54:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:54:49","slug":"how-to-turn-off-facebooks-annoying-video-autoplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakwoodexperience.com\/staging\/2633\/how-to-turn-off-facebooks-annoying-video-autoplay\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Turn Off Facebook’s Annoying Video AutoPlay"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can only truly turn off this “feature” in the desktop\/laptop version; on the Mobile app for iPhone, the best you can hope for is to\u00a0force it to only work when your phone is connected to wi<\/span>–fi<\/span>.\u00a0update<\/span>: \u00a0ios<\/span>\u00a07.1 includes the ability to turn OFF video autoplay<\/span>:\u00a0go to Settings>Facebook>Settings>Video; set Auto-play to OFF, or to Wi<\/span>-Fi only.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s the way it goes down on the big screen:<\/p>\n

Go to the upper right corner and look for this:<\/p>\n

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Click on “Settings.” you’ll see this, over to the left of the page:<\/p>\n

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Select Videos, and you’ll get this:<\/p>\n

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Change the “ON” to “OFF” and you’re good to go. Note where it says that this only works for your computer-based Facebook use. \u00a0Now we’ll go into the iPhone settings and turn them off there.<\/p>\n

Start at the home screen, and select Settings, the one with the Gears. Then select Facebook:<\/p>\n

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From there select Settings.<\/p>\n

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Then on the next page, in the Video section, turn on “Auto-play on Wi<\/span>-Fi only:<\/p>\n

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At least automatically streaming videos won’t eat into your cellular data this way. I don’t have an Android phone, but here’s what I have found (can’t get screen shots from it, obviously):<\/p>\n

Open the Facebook app. Select the menu (should be at the bottom). Select Settings. Select General Settings. Check the box for “Auto-play videos on Wi<\/span>-Fi only.”<\/p>\n

This will keep from chewing through data<\/span>, even if it’s only a little bit. It can be painful to get hit with an overage charge, and my internet at my house isn’t unlimited, so I want that turned off on my laptop as well.<\/p>\n

Was this helpful to you? Were my instructions clear and easy to understand? Let me know if I have room for improvement, or if you’d like to see more of stuff<\/span> like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can only truly turn off this “feature” in the desktop\/laptop version; on the Mobile app for iPhone, the best you can hope for is to\u00a0force it to only work when your phone is connected to wi–fi.\u00a0update: \u00a0ios\u00a07.1 includes the ability to turn OFF video autoplay:\u00a0go to Settings>Facebook>Settings>Video; set Auto-play to OFF, or to Wi-Fi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[298,319,527,163,1036],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-and-consideration","tag-android","tag-autoplay","tag-facebook","tag-iphone","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"\nHow to Turn Off Facebook's Annoying Video AutoPlay<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Did they think it was too much trouble for us to press the Play button? 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