How to Disable Auto-play Videos for Facebook, Twitter & Instagram on Your Smartphone

In this post, i will be giving you a simple tutorial for those annoying videos that always pop up before you scroll one or two posts on your social media. I’m going to show you how to disable auto-play videos on your various social media handle with ease.


How to Stop Auto-play video on Twitter

Step 1: Click on your Profile picture on the left top


Step 2: Scroll down to “settings and Privacy”


Step 3: Click on data usage>>tap video autoplay and choose never


For iOS users, same steps applies.


How to Stop Auto-play video on Instagram

Step 1: Go to your profile page
Step 2: Tap on three vertical dots on the upper right corner
Step 3: Select Cellular Data Use


Step 4: Turn on Use Less Data.

How to stop auto-play video on Facebook

Step 1: Open your Facebook app and tap on the three horizontal line by the right hand corner as seen below

Step 2: Scroll down to app settings and tap on it


Step 3: Scroll to Auto play and chose never auto play video


For iOS Users
  1. Tap the three horizontal lines on the upper-right corner of the app.
  2. Select Settings -> Account Settings.
  3. Go to Videos and Photos
  4. Now under Autoplay, and choose 'Never Auto-play Videos'.
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