How to Enable or Disable Sound Access to Chrome Android

This happened to me recently. I boarded a train and browsed some sites on my browser when I suddenly heard the intro music and then some news broadcast. I was just wondering about the emergence of this out of the blue!

I somehow managed to reduce the volume to take control. However, I couldn’t figure out why the sound was playing. I used the Chrome browser to read a blog post; multiple tabs were open then.

After checking all the tabs, I saw a live autoplay video on the news site. I immediately stopped the video and closed the tab. But it left me wondering how that happened without my consent. After a quick research, I found that this autoplay feature works like an ad often embedded in blogs and news websites for monetization.

I needed to disable the sound access permission to any website I was unaware of. In this blog, I’ve mentioned all the steps I’ve taken to disable sound access for the website.

Disable Sound Access

If you do not watch videos or listen to music in your browser, you can easily disable the sound permissions for all websites using the Chrome sound settings. Here are the steps to disable sound:

1. Launch the Chrome browser app on Android phones.
2. Tap on the More menu for options.
3. Select Settings from the list of options.
4. Scroll down and Tap on the Site Settings option.
5. Within the Site Settings, open the Sound tab.
6. The Sound is default set to Allowed.
7. Toggle the button to turn OFF the Sound access to Chrome Android.
   

After disabling sound access from the Chrome sound settings, you won’t be able to listen to any sound or music playing in your Chrome browser.

However, enabling sound access on the Chrome browser is recommended if you listen or watch anything. It’s easy to turn off the sound within the browser by tapping on the volume icon in the music or video player unless you do not know what is playing in the background.

Enable Sound Permissions

There will be certain times that you have to watch a video on Chrome. In that case, you can easily toggle the sound access and turn it ON again. Assuming the sound access in Chrome sound settings is already turned OFF. Here are the steps to enable sound permissions:

1. Launch the Chrome browser app on Android phones.
2. Tap on the More menu for options.
3. Select Settings from the list of options.
4. Scroll down and Tap on the Site Settings option.
5. Within the Site Settings, open the Sound tab.
6. Toggle the button to turn ON the Sound access to Chrome Android.
   

It will enable the sound of the website. The default setting for the browser allows all websites to play sound without any restriction.

Mute Sound for a Site

This is the option that I use more often. There is this feature called + Add Site Exceptions, which typically works inversely. For example: if you want to disable the sound access for Facebook.com, then here are the steps:

1. Launch the Chrome browser on Android.
2. Tap on the More menu and select Settings options.
3. Scroll down, tap the Site Settings option, and select the Sound tab.
4. Toggle the button to turn ON the Sound access.
5. Tap on + ADD SITE EXCEPTION  command.
6. Enter the site URL facebook.com.
   
7. Tap on the Add button.

This will block the sound access for facebook.com on Chrome Android. But you can still play sound and music except for Facebook.

Inversely, if you wanted only facebook.com should play the sound, then the rest of them would be blocked. At step #6 — Turn OFF the sound access and add an exception for facebook.com to allow sound permission.

Video Demo

This video tutorial will teach us how to enable or disable sound permission on the website. It will help in disabling background sound from the selected website.

Bottom Line

The Chrome browser on the Android phone allows its users to control the sound. It helps in customizing the sound and helps in media autoplay based on the choice of websites.

If you think a particular website is annoying and do not want to listen to any sounds or music, block the URL by adding it to the exception list. All this can be accessed under the audio settings.

Similarly, you can also control sound access permissions on a Chrome computer browser. You can enable or disable the media autoplay and turn off the sound for selected websites.

What is your setting for sound permissions on your Chrome Android browser? Do you mute the sites and tabs in Chrome Android?

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