3 Easy Methods of How to Make YouTube Turn off Autoplay

Whether you play a YouTube video or a YouTube playlist, YouTube autoplay feature enables you to automatically play the next video after the current video ends. However, different from YouTube playlist autoplay, you will see a 10 seconds countdown circle and a hint of continuing to play the next video at the end of the playing video. The contents and genre of the next video depends on your viewing history. Then here comes the question, you may be bothered and unsatisfied with the recommended video which you are not interested in. Then what should we do? Follow this article to learn 3 workable solutions to shut down the YouTube autoplay.

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You will see a countdown circle appearing on the YouTube video player by the end of a video. Next, I will tell you 3 simple tricks to turn off autoplay YouTube video.

(1) Enter words in the search box on the top of the YouTube webpage.

(2) Scroll down past the video player on the current page.

(3) Scroll down the slider to “Comment” section and click comment box to make YouTube turn off autoplay.

When the countdown circle appears, you can see that there is a “Cancel” option under the countdown circle, clicking it to disable YouTube autoplay.

However, we should know that this method can’t turn off YouTube video autoplay permanently. If you have played another video or refreshed the webpage, the YouTube video autoplay will keep on going by the end of the video.

Here is an easy method to permanently make YouTube turn off autoplay within several simple clicks.

(1) Click the “Gear” icon on the lower-right corner of the video, switch off the “Autoplay” option.

(2) Or you can directly turn off “Autoplay” on the right side of the video player.

By doing the above 2 operations, you are able to permanently stop YouTube autoplay next video. One day, if you want to turn on YouTube autoplay, you can turn on the “Autoplay” switch too. In addition, please note that if you are connected with mobile data and have been inactive for 30 minutes, the video autoplay will stop automatically. But if you are connected to WIFI, autoplay feature will stop after 4 hours.

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