Facebook is nowadays a widely popular online social networking service which has billions of active users all around the world. The social networking service is continuously updating its network to provide better services to all its users in order to get outstanding revenue results. Few months ago, Facebook has enabled auto play video option from which all the videos on timeline of the users play by default without any click or selecting play option. Whenever you login Facebook profile, you will see that all the videos appearing while you scroll down, play automatically without any selecting.
This newly introduced service is good for some Facebook users who like to watch every video appearing on their timeline and enjoy all the stuff shared or posted by their friends, family and other circles. However, most of the Facebook users have some serious concerns on this issue and this new feature is irritating them. They don’t want to see all the videos on their timeline but unfortunately unable to do anything in this regards.
For all those Facebook users who don’t want auto play video option on their timelines, we have described very simple and easy way from which they can disable auto play video option, which is given below:
Easy Steps to Disable Auto Play
- First of all, go to Facebook Setting, given on the top right of drop down menu.
- You can also directly go to Setting through this link. https://www.facebook.com/settings.
- On the left menu, you would find “Video” option, click on it.
- Video Setting page will appear on your screen by doing this, where you will find two options, “Video Default Quality” and “Auto-Play Videos”.
- Change the setting of “Auto-Play Videos” from Default or On to “Off”.
- After this, all the videos appearing on your timeline would only play if you click on those.
Disable Auto play For Mobile Apps
- First of all, open the Facebook app on your Smartphone, tablet or any other device.
- Now select Setting option given on the right side.
- Select App Settings from the menu, by scroll down the menu.
- Select Video Auto Play option and choose Off option from it.
- Facebook Auto Play Video option has disabled now.
- Now you would only watch videos on your timeline after selecting them.
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