New Samsung Internet Beta feature tackles annoying autoplaying videos

Final updated: June 4th, 2019 at 06:00 UTC+01:00

The latest update to the Samsung Internet Beta app brings a very useful feature: You lot can now stop websites from automatically playing videos. Autoplaying videos are perhaps i of the most irritating things well-nigh the internet today. Everyone has experienced them, and while some sites are sensible enough to go on sound muted when they autoplay videos, others aren't. And now, if you utilise the Samsung Internet browser, yous can make all the autoplaying videos go away with a tap.

Stops both GIFs and videos from autoplaying

Version 9.4.00.26 of Samsung Internet Beta has a universal setting chosenPermit autoplay videosthat, once disabled, stops videos from being played automatically on all websites. It even stops GIF animations from playing, which might seem a tad overkill to some users, and hopefully Samsung will add together more granular control that lets you choose if information technology's just videos that don't autoplay or if even GIF animations don't. Or well, at least the selection to tap on GIF animations to brand them play would exist nice, which is something that doesn't work at the moment.

You can discover theAllow autoplay videostoggle in the Useful features section of the Samsung Internet Beta app'south settings. If you're using the stable version of Samsung Cyberspace, you lot'll accept to wait a while before you can use the new functionality. Samsung usually takes a few weeks to bring features from the beta version to the stable app, so if y'all want to tackle the menace of autoplaying videos right away, you'll accept to install Samsung Internet Beta.

Take hold of the update from Galaxy Store or download the APK file

You can install the beta app from the Galaxy Store on your Milky way device; the Google Play version is yet to be updated, merely that should alter in the side by side couple of days. Another way you tin can become the latest version of Samsung Net Beta is to download the APK file from our APK section and install it on your phone manually. This is the all-time solution for those with a non-Samsung smartphone until the Google Play version is updated.