Since upgrading my iPad to iPados my usual news site autoplays videos on every page, when it never used to autoplay before the update. I cannot find anywhere to turn it off. Can anyone help please?
Hello,
You can manage Safari website settings in Settings > Safari.
I find if I tap the AA symbol next to the web address and request the mobile site it tends to stop the auto playback of video.
Safari on iPadOS identifies itself to websites as a desktop browser by default. Perhaps your favorite new site thinks autoplaying to a desktop computer is OK but not to mobile devices.
Hi,
I've already looked in Settings>Safari but I cannot see any option to stop videos from autoplaying.
Do you know of any way to prevent autoplaying of videos?
Thanks
FatCol
Hi present tense,
Pls refer to the attached photos. Pls switch Video Autoplay off.
Hope this helps.
I'm having the same issue -- installed iPadOS and now videos autoplay in Safari (muted, mercifully). They did not before the upgrade. How do I make it stop?
I do not see an appropriate setting for Safari, only an "autoplay" option for Photos (which has no effect on Safari). Also no impact for Settings > Accessibility > Motion > Autoplay Video Previews.
Where is the relevant setting buried?
GOldAPPle78, I do not see a video option in iTunes & App Store
Hi GOldAPPle78, thanks -- but there is NO Video Autoplay option in my Settings (see below). Perhaps this is different in iPadOS versus whatever version of iOS you're using?
Mine has Video Autoplay, I just upgraded my iOS, now is 13.1.2
Hi FatCol,
Besides turning off Auto-Play Video Previews in Motion, you also need to turn off Video Autoplay in iTunes & App Store, pls watch this YouTube tutorial video (starting from 1:00): https://youtu.be/a2saDSACxxY
Hope this resolves your issue.
Stop web videos autoplaying in Safari iPados
