How to disable annoying autoplay for Facebook videos

If your Facebook news feed is automatically playing back videos of cats or children doing ‘hilarious’ stuff, and you’d rather not have it distract you, here’s how to disable annoying autoplay for Facebook videos.

This has been vexing me more and more recently, as friends and acquaintances seem to be posting up more and more video content. On a slow internet connection, this can affect page loading times, and on mobile devices it could seriously eat data.

On a laptop or computer;
Click the downward arrow on the menu bar at the top of the page and select Settings.
On the left hand side of the Settings page is a list of options, select ‘Videos’ at the bottom.
Select the ‘Auto-play Videos’  option to ‘Off’. I think the default mode basically means ‘On’, which is very helpful of Facebook.

From now on you shouldn’t see any video clips ‘entertaining’ you as your browse the news feed.

Access Video Settings To Vanquish Auto-play

On an iPhone or Android device;
On an iPhone, go to Settings and find Facebook.
Tap Settings.
Next, tap on the Autoplay setting and choose either Wi-Fi only or Off so you don’t use a big chunk of your monthly data allotment on Facebook videos. I’d suggest ‘Off’, you can always click to play the clip if you find it enticing enough.
On Android, the auto-play settings are within the Facebook app itself. Under the General Settings, tap on ‘Video Auto-Play’ and set it to Off.

Begone, vexing vids of idiots doing idiotic stuff!

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