How to Turn Off AutoPlay in the Reddit iPhone App

Autoplay is a feature that causes a video to play as soon as it is visible on your screen.

Some people find it useful, but others might prefer to not play a video until they are ready to watch it or if they want to watch it at all.

The Reddit app may be auto-playing videos for you, even if it is only happening when you are on a Wi-Fi network.

Fortunately, this is a setting over which you have control, so you can choose to prevent any autoplaying when you browse Reddit on your iPhone.

Our guide below will show you where to find this setting so that you can disable it.

How to Stop Videos from Playing Automatically in the iPhone Reddit App

The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10.3.2.

The version of the Reddit app being used is the most current version available at the time this article was written.

If you don’t see the Never option identified in the final step below, then you may be using an older version of the app. Click here to see how you can check for and install an app update on your iPhone.

Step 1: Open the Reddit app.

open the reddit iphone app

Step 2: Tap the user icon at the bottom-right corner of the screen.

select the user profile in reddit iphone

Step 3: Tap the Settings icon at the top-right of the screen.

reddit iphone app settings

Step 4: Select the Autoplay option.

change autoplay in reddit app

Step 5: Touch the Never option.

how to disable autoplay in the reddit iphone app


Now that you know how to turn off autoplay in the Reddit iPhone app, you can make your Reddit-browsing experience a little less frustrating.

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