Save Your Data: Learn How To Stop Facebook Videos From Playing Automatically

Save Your Data: Stop Facebook Videos
From Playing Automatically

Facebook  is gradually becoming the new generation Youtube because people all over keep sharing new videos every now and then, some are educative and funny and it's just one of the easiest way to wipe away boredom and waste your data bundle.

Infact, some people watch more videos than reading timeline updates.

It is known fact that watching videos online consume a lot of data. And most people complain about the way android, windows, apple phones consume data, and this at times is frustrating unlike blackberry devices that manages data effective. 

it can be so annoying when these videos play

automatically, even when you don't have much data or feel like watching videos. I'd rather choose to click on play by myself than for it to automatically play.

Here  I'm going to show you how to stop auto play on all Facebook videos in less than 3Min.
To stop videos from playing automatically on your computer, kindly follow the following steps religiously. 

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For PC Users
Steps:

1. Log in to your Facebook account

2. From the top right of Facebook, click and select Settings

3. Click Videos in the left menu

4. Click the dropdown menu next to Auto-play

Videos

5. Select Off

For Android Users

Steps:
1. Open the Facebook Android app and open the Settings menu.

2. Once in the Settings menu you'll be able to see a link to your profile page, friends, events, photos, pages you manage and more.

3. Scroll down to the Help & Setting section and select App Settings.

4. Under General settings look for and

select Video Auto-play.

5. Video Auto-play offers three options:
i. On
ii. Wi-fi only
iii.  Off

Choose Off if you don't want video to ever autoplay on Facebook;
Choose Wi-fi only if you don't like video auto-playing because you're worried about going over your tariff's data allowance and that you do have access to Wi-fi networks. 

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For iPhone & iPad Users

Steps:
1. Open your iPad or iPhone's Settings menu
2. Scroll down to and select Facebook.

3. Choose Settings and, under Video, select Auto-play
4. You will find the same three options:
On, Wi-fi only and Off.
5. Select Off to stop it for life and Wi-fi Only if you want the feature to be activated whenever you are on Wi-fi networks.

You can help a friend and save his/her data. 

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