--- title: Facebook: How To Stop Auto-Playing Videos With Sound description: Facebook videos will soon start automatically playing with sound as you scroll through your News Feed, the company announced Tuesday. canonical: https://time.com/4671072/facebook-sound-news-feed-videos-stop-mute/ author: Alex Fitzpatrick article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-14T20:07:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:50:57.758Z article:section: Business og:title: How To Stop Facebook From Auto-Playing Videos With Sound og:description: Here's the way to keep your Facebook app on mute og:url: https://time.com/4671072/facebook-sound-news-feed-videos-stop-mute/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf7a7df28b4481fc0/6988ae01f887dc7c26e982c7/gettyimages-163292239.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Facebook To Detail Updates To News Feed At Press Event og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How To Stop Facebook From Auto-Playing Videos With Sound twitter:description: Here's the way to keep your Facebook app on mute twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf7a7df28b4481fc0/6988ae01f887dc7c26e982c7/gettyimages-163292239.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How To Stop Facebook From Auto-Playing Videos With Sound  by [Alex Fitzpatrick](/author/alex-fitzpatrick/)  ## Alex Fitzpatrick Feb 14, 2017 8:07 PM CUT  Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., speaks during an event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on March 7, 2013. Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., speaks during an event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on March 7, 2013.Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Alex Fitzpatrick](/author/alex-fitzpatrick/)  ## Alex Fitzpatrick Feb 14, 2017 8:07 PM CUT Facebook videos will soon start automatically playing with sound as you scroll through your News Feed, the company [announced](http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/02/new-ways-to-watch-facebook-video/ "undefined") Tuesday. Mercifully, the videos won’t play with sound if you have your phone set to silent. But if you’d like to stop them from automatically playing sound altogether, Facebook is offering an option to do that as well. First, click the three-line icon in the bottom-right hand corner of the Facebook app. Then, tap “Settings.” Next, hit “Account Settings.” Then tap “Sounds.” There, you should see an option to turn off “Videos in News Feed Start With Sound.” Note that the change is rolling out gradually, so you might not see the appropriate setting just yet. 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