Auto-play videos will be quite annoying for many of us, they will be much annoying if it is on Facebook, as we will be going through various things in our timeline and sometimes, videos play while we scroll which will irritate us. But luckily, Facebook has an option for that where we can actually disable auto-play of the audio and video in your newsfeed.
Reasons may be a lot but there is definitely a need to disable auto-play and it can be done from the settings. This process is the same for both FB application and desktop
- Go to Settings
- Just disable the auto-play option there by toggling the switch
Turning automatic audio on/off:
- Tap on the hamburger icon in the FB application, or else just got to settings if you are doing it from PC
- Then tap on account settings and then click on Sounds
- Here you will find an option Videos in newsfeed start with sound, toggle it to turn it off
This amazing and useful feature to turn off auto-play of audio and video will definitely be needed or everyone. So, go try it if you need it. And enjoy disturbance free newsfeeds.