How to Turn Off Keep Hovering to Play Youtube Videos

  • To turn off keep hovering to play youtube videos -> Click on the profile icon and go to settings -> Click on Playback and performance report and then turn off inline playback video.
  • When you turn off inline playback next to browse option -> youtube keep playing videos when hovering on video preview will be turned off and it will not play video when you hover over preview on youtube home screen.

On youtube when you are trying viewing youtube and you are just hovering over video on youtube, it will start playing video without sound and it will be tracked as viewed by you and it a very helpful feature when you want to see the video without clicking on it and you can easily turn off keep hovering to play videos or youtube hover preview video playing. So, let’s see in detail below.

Youtube keeps changing and adding new features to youtube for better performance and if you don’t like these features you can easily turn off inline playback and stop playing videos when hovering over video thumbnail or preview on youtube.

Disable or Turn Off Keep Hovering to Play Youtube Videos

Follow below steps to turn off keep hovering to play youtube videos on preview on youtube.

Step 1: Open youtube on your web browser

Step 2: Click on your Account Profile Photo on the top right corner.

Step 3: Click on Settings

Step 4: On the left side menu -> Click on Playback and Performance option.

Step 5: Scroll down and in Browsing -> inline Playback (play video when you hover over them on the home screen) and turn this option by toggle the button.

Step 6: Now, go to youtube home screen and hover over any video and video will not play now.

That’s it, this is how you disable or turn off keep hovering to play youtube videos will be disabled and turned off and inline playing videos when browsing youtube will be disabled.

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Youtube Hover to Play No Sound

When you hover over a video and video keeps playing but there is no sound when hovering over video on youtube then you need to click on volume icon which will be muted by default when you hover over video and click on the volume icon and unmute the button and it will start playing video when you hover over video thumbnail preview.

Can i turn off Hovering to Play video on Youtube

Yes! This is a new feature added by youtube when you hover over any video on preview then youtube will start playing video and you can disable and turn off hovering video playing on youtube by going to settings and turn off inline playback.

Rajeshwari Chiluveru
Rajeshwari Chiluveru
Rajeshwari is Senior Content Writer, Author, and Also Senior Editorial Team Member at A Savvy Web and She has a Degree in Bachelor of Technology (Btech) and (Master of Technology) Mtech from JNTU and is a real time expert. She writes about technology guides and troubleshooting guides (tips and Solutions) and helps users to solve issues easily. She has expertise in this area for more than 5+ years of experience and enthusiastic to provide troubleshooting tips and fixes and how to articles on Tech Related subjects like iPhone, Android, iOS, Smart tv and other tech related solutions and easy methods to fix.

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