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How to disable Autoplaying Videos on Twitter

Posted on March 24, 2021

Do the videos on your Twitter Timeline start playing automatically just as soon as they scroll into view?

If so, that’s due to a Video Autoplay feature that causes videos to begin playing on their own without any prompting from the user.

Personally, I don’t really like autoplaying videos in general. I prefer to choose for myself whether to play a video or not.

If you don’t care for Twitter’s Video Autoplay feature you can easily turn it off. [Read more…]

How to disable auto-playing videos in the Facebook mobile app

Posted on September 17, 2020

It seems like Facebook is constantly making changes to our Newsfeeds. Every once in a while they’ll make a change I actually like, but most of their changes end up irritating me in some way.

One of the changes I detest most is how videos now start playing automatically when they scroll into view on our Newsfeeds.

I wrote a post a while back that explains how to disable auto-playing videos in the Desktop version of Facebook, but several people have asked me recently how to disable them in the Facebook mobile app as well.

Simply follow the steps below to disable auto-playing videos in the Facebook app: [Read more…]




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