Websites you open on Samsung Internet may use your Android smartphone’s audio features to play audio. At the same time, this feature is helpful, for example, when you decide to play any YouTube video or song. But some websites can play advertisement videos with audio without the user’s consent.
Yesterday, I was browsing some news websites during office hours. While I was reading the news, the rest of the staff was busy working. I opened several tabs and kept reading, but suddenly my smartphone started playing music. Everyone in my office started staring at me.
Somehow I have managed to turn off the music. However, I was unable to understand why music was playing. I checked all the open tabs to find out why the music played. I found an advertisement video playing in the tab; I immediately closed that tab.
This incident left me annoyed. I have researched and found that many news websites have embedded video codes that can trigger automatically when you visit those websites. Therefore, I have decided to block sound access on Samsung Internet.
Disable Media Autoplay
Autoplay is a critical feature that every browser has embraced in recent times. With autoplay, you don’t have to play the next song on streaming sound; it will automatically start the next.
However, this feature is misused by advertisement agencies to play video ads which often leads to embarrassment. Hence, it’s recommended to disable autoplay if you aren’t using it. Here are the steps to disable media autoplay:
- Launch the Samsung Internet app on your phone.
- Tap on More
for the menu options list. - Select the Settings menu.
- Scroll to the Advanced section, and tap the Useful features menu.
- Disable the toggle button for Allow autoplay videos option.
This will automatically stop all the autoplay triggers that an advertisement company has set. Unless you manually hit on the Play button, the media isn’t going to play.
Samsung Internet has a unique feature known as Video Assistant that helps watch videos and enhances the controls.
You can read through the video assistant page to know the controls. You need to enable the toggle button for the Video assistant to work for you.
Block Sound Access
Samsung Internet doesn’t have any inbuilt functionality to block sound access. However, you can do it under the smartphone’s Notification Settings menu.
Here are the steps to block sound access:
- Launch the Samsung Internet app on your phone.
- Tap on More for the menu options list.
- Select the Settings menu.
- Tap on the Sites and download menu, and select the Notification tab.
- Tap on More
for the options. - Choose the Notification settings from the list.
This will open the phone settings. - Toggle the Allow sound button and turn it OFF.
Once you have applied the above steps, Samsung Internet won’t be able to play music, unlike Google Chrome. Samsung doesn’t allow blocking sound access for specific websites, so once you have invoked the proper permission of the Samsung Internet, no website can play music.
Allow Sound Access
If you have blocked the sound access in Samsung Internet and later realize the need to enable the sound access to watch videos or play music. Here are the steps to allow sound access:
- Launch the Samsung Internet app on your phone.
- Tap on More for the menu options list.
- Select the Settings menu.
- Tap on the Sites and download menu, and select the Notification tab.
- Tap on Menu for the options.
- Choose the Notification settings from the list.
It will open the phone settings. - Turn ON the toggle button for Allow sound option.
It will allow sound access permission for the Samsung Internet browser. You can now play and listen to the audio on the Samsung browser.
Bottom Line
As mentioned earlier, Samsung Internet has no functionality to enable, allow or block websites from accessing sound. But still, you can invoke or allow good access with the help of your smartphone settings. Perhaps the media autoplay settings will help avoid embarrassing moments in public places.
After reading this post, have you managed to allow or block sound access on Samsung Internet? Did you turn off the media autoplay feature on your browser?
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