How to disable Facebook's autoplay video feature

Do you like watching videos on Facebook? But not the idea that they autoplay. Worry not, there are ways you can opt out of this autoplay feature in your Facebook feed. Here's a step-by-step guide for both Android and iPhone users...

For Android devices

1. Login into your Facebook account

2. Tap the three-lined button in the upper right corner of the screen.

3. Scroll down and tap 'App Settings'

4. Go to 'Videos in News Feed Start with Sound', tap the toggle to off

For iOS devices

1. Login into your Facebook account

2. Tap the three-lined button at the bottom right corner of the screen.

3. Go to Settings > Account Settings > Sounds

4. Go to 'Videos in News Feed Start with Sound', now tap the toggle to off

Facebook rolled out the autoplay videos feature in February this year. This is part of the social network giant's vision to be "video destination". The company doesn't want to be just a feed that also happens to have videos. As Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the company's earning's call, 

"The goal that we have for the product experience is to make it so that when people want to watch videos or want to keep up to date with what's going on with their favorite show, or what's going on with a public figure that they want to follow, that they can come to Facebook and go to a place knowing that that's going to show them all the content that they're interested in. That's a pretty different intent than why people come to Facebook today. ... The experience is designed to deliver on that promise — [that] you want to watch videos, you want to keep up with the content that you watch episodically week over week. This is going to be the place where you go to do that."