With advancing web technologies, web developers and web admins are experimenting with new features daily to keep users engaged on their websites. One such trial is to run the video or auto-play in the background.
A week earlier, my father was browsing through the website of a popular news channel when a video started playing, suddenly taking him by surprise. Since my father has a problem with his ear, it wasn’t enjoyable for him. He could not even turn the video or sound off, which added to his discomfort. He started calling my name, and I hurried towards him, but I could not find an instant solution myself.
After several tries, I found a way out! The video tends to run without our permission and start playing, which is annoying and frustrating. News websites mostly use this kind of endeavor for broadcasting live sessions.
Thankfully, the Safari audio settings allow controlling this auto-play sound and video for all the websites. As per your requirement, you can enable or disable this option.
Allow Auto-Play Sound
Several websites provide helpful information that we are interested in watching. It is not necessary to turn off the Auto-Play feature on such websites. The safari audio settings let you do it!
Here are the steps to allow sound permissions and access on the Safari Mac computer:
- Launch the Safari app on a mac computer.
- Select Safari from the menubar options.
- Choose the Preferences… option under the Safari menu.
- Switch to the Websites tab within the Preferences popup window.
- Choose Auto-Play in the sidebar.
- At the bottom of the drop-down — When visiting other websites, select Allow All Auto-Play.
This will allow the website to play sound and music from the website-embedded assets on the apple safari browser on a computer.
Block Auto-Play Sound Access
We must know how to block websites on mac that play unnecessary videos automatically. Such videos are annoying and take up unnecessary data off our internet.
Here are the steps to block sound permissions for all websites on Safari on macOS machines:
- Launch the Safari browser app on a mac computer.
- Select Safari from the menubar options.
- Choose the Preferences… option under the Safari menu.
- Switch to the Websites tab within the Preferences popup window.
- Choose Auto-Play in the sidebar.
- At the bottom of the drop-down — When visiting other websites, select Never Auto-Play.
This will block and disable the sound access for the website and not allow it to play sound.
Bottom Line: Safari Audio Connection
With new updates and experimentation employed by websites, it becomes essential to select useful features and disable the ones that are not. The auto-play feature is annoying. Hence, it is better to discard it.
After finding a solution to disable the auto-play of videos, I could help my father and set it up for him. Now, he does not get annoyed by unnecessary videos and their sounds. He is now at peace.
Similarly, you can also block the Microphone and Camera permissions on the Safari Mac computer. This will further enhance user data privacy in Safari.
I hope you also find this helpful feature and use it well. May this feature also do good for your friends and family members?