How to stop audio playing on Mac

With advancing web technologies, web developers and webmasters are experimenting with new features every day to keep the user engaged on their website. 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 was highly disturbing for him. He was not even able to 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! This video tends to run without our permission and start playing which is kind of annoying and frustrating. This kind of endeavor is mostly used by news websites for broadcasting the live sessions.

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Thankfully, the Safari audio settings allow controlling this auto-play sound and video for all the websites. As per your requirement, you can just enable or disable this option.

How to Allow Auto-Play Sound on Safari MacOS?

Several websites provide useful 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 for websites on safari browser on mac computer:

1. Launch the Safari app on a mac computer.
2. SelectSafarifrom the menubar options.
3. ChoosePreferencesoption under the Safari menu.
4. Switch to the Websites tab within the Preferences popup window.
5. Choose the Auto-Playin the sidebar.
6. 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.

How to Block Auto-Play Sound Access on Safari Computer?

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 machine:

1. Launch the Safari browserapp on a mac computer.
2. SelectSafarifrom the menubar options.
3. ChoosePreferences option under the Safari menu.
4. Switch to the Websites tab within the Preferences popup window.
5. Choose the Auto-Playin the sidebar.
6. 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 do not allow it to play sound.

Bottom Line: Safari Audio Connection

With new updates and experimentation employed by websites, it becomes extremely necessary to select the features that are useful and disable the ones that are not. The auto-play feature is clearly 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 in Safari Mac computer. This will further enhance user data privacy in Safari.

I hope you find this feature useful as well and make good use out of it. May this feature also do good to your friends and family members.

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