Facebook users vexed by sound on autoplaying videos – here's how to stop it

Social media company widens rollout of new feature that automatically plays videos with sound in the News Feed after 'positive feedback'

Facebook's long-dreaded update that switches on sound for autoplaying videos by default is starting to roll out causing users to lash out on social media. Here's how to turn it off.

First Facebook rolled out autoplaying videos in the News Feed on its app by default, causing users to complain about the increased data consumption from their mobile plans. Now those same autoplaying videos will start pumping out sound in a feature, as one user put it, "literally nobody asked for".