Is there a way of disabling auto-play of video in Chrome? Many sites have moved to HTML5 video and so you have ads or featured videos that start automatically playing the moment the page loads.
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Somewhat related: How do I disable HTML5 player for Chrome on Android? – Firelord♦ Dec 14 '15 at 10:52
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Not really. I want to disable auto-play of video files, whereas that question is about disabling HTML5 video completely. – CadentOrange Dec 14 '15 at 11:41
On Android Chrome 54, turn off autoplay of media by going to Settings - Site Settings - Media - Autoplay and Block autoplay.
This feature is disabled if you have data compression enabled in your Android Chrome browser.
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addendum: On Android Chrome 80, these settings do not exist at all. There does not appear to be any way to block media autoplay. – fire Apr 4 at 20:36
Starting from Chrome 47, there's a Chrome flag that is used to turn media autoplay on/off:
Disable gesture requirement for media playback.
Disable user gesture requirement for playing media elements. Activating this will allow autoplay to work.
You can see it by going to this link: chrome://flags/#disable-gesture-requirement-for-media-playback;
The default status for the flag is disabled, so autoplay should not work: you should check your Chrome version and eventually update it. I tested with version 47 and autoplay does not work unless you turn on the flag.
Other info here.
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1I tested again right now and it works also in the foreground tab in Chrome 47... Have you tested it? Could you share the link you tried? – dipanda Dec 16 '15 at 16:44
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Try visiting this page. The ad on there autoplays and the speaker icon appears in my notification bar. – CadentOrange Dec 18 '15 at 14:14
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I've just tried this on a variety of pages - in particular smh.com.au - and it appears to block the playback on all videos, thankfully. That said, contrary to the OP, it was Disabled initially and I had to Enable it to disable the auto-playback. The description states "User gesture requirement for playing media elements. Disabling this will allow auto-play to work". – Mike Sep 15 '16 at 4:56
Chrome for Android doesn't have an option to disable autoplay. My solution is: Switch to Firefox.
