These solutions are for YouTube accessed through desktop browsers. Moreover, when accessing YouTube, search it through a search engine (not through the bookmark/shortcut).Īdditionally, keep in mind that AutoPlay will work for 30 minutes on a mobile network and for 4 hours on a Wi-Fi to prevent long AutoPlay sessions that a user might have forgotten. Additionally, TV apps are also affected by the AutoPlay not working issue.īefore moving on with the solutions to solve AutoPlay issues, restart your devices (phone, computers, routers, etc.) to check if the issue is a temporary glitch. This behavior is reported to occur on nearly all the operating systems and all the web browsers. The user encounters the issue when he tries to play a video/playlist and YouTube stops (or starts repeating the first two videos of the playlist) after playing one or two videos.įor some users, the issue is that they cannot stop the AutoPlay of the videos while some encountered the issue only with playlists (not with the individual videos). may also cause the error under discussion. Moreover, an outdated browser or misconfiguration of your browser like DRM settings, etc. 2 with 14.8% of the market, according to StatCounter.AutoPlay may not work on YouTube due to corrupt cache/data of the browser or corrupt installation of the YouTube mobile application. Google’s Chrome is used by 57.7% of internet users as of March 2018, across desktop and mobile. That YouTube videos sometimes played automatically and other times did not. “Autoplaying content with sound, whether it has visible controls or not, and whether it is set to play on loop or not, simply does not start playing.”
“In our tests, autoplaying content that is muted still plays automatically,” according to VentureBeat, which initially reported the news.
The autoplay blocking adds a ban on video, pop-up and intrusive advertisements It’s based on a new metric and ranking by Google’s new metric Media Engagement Index (MEI). On mobile, Google still allows autoplay on sites that have been added as a bookmark to the home screen. The autoplay is allowed only when the mediaĭoesn’t play sound, after the user clicks or taps on the site, or on desktop if the user has previously shown an interest in media on the site, according to Google.
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