Disney Plus 'autoplay feature is great for binge-watching, but if you're not really a binger, you can simply turn it off in your profile settings.- You can also disable background videos and clips that play automatically as you browse.
- These changes to your settings can be reversed at any time.
Autoplay can be a great feature on streaming apps — when you're binge watching a show, it's much easier to not have to select the next episode to watch every twenty to forty minutes.
However, if you want to discourage binge watching — either for yourself, or for a child who may be using your Disney Plus account — you may want to disable autoplay to stop yourself from getting sucked into another, and another and another, episode.
Luckily for you, Disney Plus has a way to disable the autoplay setting on your account. You can turn this off and on at any time, so you can still choose to binge watch if you want.
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How to turn Disney Plus autoplay off or on
1. On the Disney Plus mobile app, go to your profile by selecting your profile icon in the bottom right corner of the screen.
If you're doing this on your TV and not the app, you will find your profile icon at the top of the sidebar on the left side of the screen.
If you're using Disney Plus on a web browser, the profile icon will be in the top right corner of the screen.
2. Under the list of current profiles, select "Edit Profiles."
3. Choose the profile you want to modify.
4. Toggle the switch next to "Autoplay" to the "Off" position (or "On").
5. Hit "Save" in the top right corner to finish.
How to turn off background videos on Disney Plus
Another annoying, autoplay-related feature that Disney Plus thankfully allows you to turn off is background video. Background videos are those little clips and previews that play automatically when you hover over certain TV shows or movies before you click them.
This is a good feature if you're not sure what you want to watch. But, if you know what you want or you'd just rather browse silently until you find something, it can be a nuisance.
Some versions of the app don't have this feature listed as an option to turn off and on in your profile menu, because they don't autoplay previews to begin with. But it is consistently available on the TV version of the app, and you can turn it off by following the steps from the section above, with one small deviation:
- When you get to step four, you will see "Background Video" as an option underneath "Autoplay." Highlight and click this option once to turn the background video play off. You can turn it back on at any time.
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