How to Disable Auto-Play in Safari on Mac for All Video & Audio

How to Disable Auto-Play in Safari on Mac for All Video & Audio

Many web users are not too thrilled about auto-playing media, whether its autoplaying video or autoplaying sound, or even an autoplaying ad, it can be annoying and frustrating to encounter as you browse the web. But dont sweat it too much, because modern versions of . You must have Mac OS with a modern version of Safari or Safari Technology Preview to have this feature easily available. Safari 11 or later will include this capability, whereas earlier versions will not, however . You can update Safari via the App Store Updates tab, and anyone can optionally download and install Safari Technology Preview if you want to run a beta version of a modern Safari version, it will install concurrently to the regular Safari release. And yes you can , but were focusing specifically on disabling autoplay in Safari here. This setting will completely prevent all websites from autoplaying any media, whether video or audio, in Safari on a Mac: Now you can browse the web without having to worry about auto-playing media blasting unexpectedly . You may need to quit and relaunch Safari for the change to take effect everywhere. * You can set exclusions by choosing the per-site settings and allow specific sites to autoplay video if desired, or allow autoplay on every website except for a particular site, and so on. Thats up to you. As specified above, if you do not have the Auto-Play settings section of Safari Preferences and the ability to choose never auto-play then you are not running a modern version of Safari that supports the feature. You must have Safari 11 or newer. You can either update Safari to a newer version, or you can . Chances are good that if you dont like Autoplay video in Safari, then you dont like autoplay in general. Welcome to the club! You can . Some of the more common places you might want to disable auto-play are: Do you have any rants, thoughts, tips, or tricks about managing or disabling auto-play media, whether video or audio? Share them with us in the comments below.