Control the videos you watch on YouTube with autoplay and loop.

It’s no secret that YouTube lives on views. This video platform wants videos to play endlessly. Hence, YouTube autoplay is enabled by default. It means that when you open the video, it will start immediately. And when it ends, another begins. And others. Endless. Unless you decide to stop it.

Added to this Autoplay videos that you don’t even have open. On your computer, just by hovering over it, YouTube can already start playback. You may already have everything in order and like this approach to how this video platform works. Or you may prefer to have more control and give play when do you decide and not when YouTube wants it.

Next we will look at options to disable to enjoy content without relying on YouTube autoplay. A feature that can be disabled if you know how. And maybe this will be useful to you better control the time you spend in this application and the content you view.

Disable autorun

If you are not between 13 and 17 years old and have not indicated this on YouTube, by default all users We have autorun enabled. “If this feature is activated, the corresponding video will automatically play when the one you are watching ends.” The good news is that you can disable autorun. And you can do this separately on each of your devices. That is, you can automate playback on your TV, but not on your computer or mobile phone.

There are two ways to disable autorun. When watching any video by clicking on the appropriate button indicating whether the feature is enabled or not. You can press it as many times as you like. Or, for all videos onwards, go directly to YouTube Settings Options and disable this option. Both options are compatible.

Autostart on mobile phones and tablets

Let’s say you’re using YouTube on an iPhone, iPad, Android phone or tablet. In this case, as we have seen, you have two ways to activate or deactivate YouTube autoplay. First, during watching video any.

If you click on the video, control and settings buttons will appear. Like subtitles, the button to share the video via AirPlay or Chromecast, etc. The first button at the top of the video corresponds to Autoplay. If it shows game icon, it is activated. If, on the other hand, it shows Pause iconit is disabled.

One way to ensure that no videos are played back to back without your permission is to disable this feature. straight from settings from YouTube. Specifically, you will have to do the following:

1. Open YouTube on your mobile phone or tablet.
2. Click on your profile avatar
3. Enter Parameter
4. Press Autoplay
5. Make sure the switch is next to Mobile phone or tablet
6. If it’s enabled, tap the switch to turn it off.

Disable playback on PC or Mac

As we have seen, YouTube autoplay works separately on each device in which it works. Even if you use the same user. You can activate it on your TV and deactivate it on your mobile phone. Or vice versa. So, if you want to control which videos you watch, you have two options.

We have already seen the first one. During playback any video, click on it to see the play buttons. On the desktop version of YouTube, these buttons are located on bottom of video. Button Autoplay It will display a Play icon or a Pause icon depending on whether it is activated or deactivated. Click to activate or deactivate playback depending on what you find most convenient.

Stop playback in place on YouTube

While there is no option to disable autoplay in YouTube settings on PC and Mac, we can get another similar feature that is only available in the desktop browser version of YouTube. He is known as Playback in place and consists of “playing videos when you hover over them on the home page and search pages.”

It’s starting to look like video preview, but it counts as a play in history even if you didn’t open it. This can cause confusion because these videos show up as played even if you hover over them for just a few seconds. For disable playback in place from YouTube you will need to click on your YouTube avatar, enter ParameterThen in Playback and Performance and finally, press the corresponding switch disable this interesting but annoying feature.

Goodbye autoplay on TV

If you are watching YouTube videos on a smart TV or game console, you also only have one way get rid of autorun from YouTube. The first option will be Parameter. Then enter Autoplay and choose whether you want to include it in Activated or defective. It’s very practical to stay glued to the TV playing videos you’ll miss because you fell asleep on the couch.

Repeat YouTube videos on loop

Now that we know how to watch YouTube videos without stopping thanks to automatic playback, you can also watch the same video an infinite number of times. Good, because the song is playing that you like, because it shows images that relax you… Everyone has their own tastes. The idea is that you can ask YouTube to show a video over and over again, or do the same with a playlist.

If you are using YouTube on your computerto repeat the same video many times you will have to enter the video, right click on the player and select the option Play in loop. As you might expect, this option is disabled by default, but you can manually enable it for each video you want to watch. For repeat playlist, enter one of the videos in the list. On the right you will see this playlist. In the field, click Play in loop.

If you are using YouTube on Android, iPhone or iPadto play one video until you feel sick you have to play it, click on the icon Settings menu in the form of a gear, and then click on Loop playback. By default it will be indicated defective and I will continue to put Activated. If what you want to repeat ad nauseam is a playlist, start playing the list and in its control field, click Play in loop.