YouTube autoplay off missing

If you are a regular user of YouTube, then you will probably agree that one of the handiest things about it is the fact that it has the suggested videos and autoplay features. If youre watching a video that you like then YouTube will automatically populate a long list of other, similar videos that you may also find interesting. Once your current video has finished playing, YouTube will then automatically play the next video in this populated list if you take no action.

The autoplay feature is great for situations such as parties where may want to just pick a song that you like and then let YouTube do the rest. This set and forget method will enable you to play your favourite genre of music for many hours without having to do so much as press a button or click a mouse.

YouTube autoplay does come with one main disadvantage though. For many people, it simply doesnt work. Theres nothing more annoying than watching a video on YouTube, and expecting more similar videos to play afterwards, only to find that the room goes silent and that nothing happens. If autoplay is not working for you the next time youre trying to watch videos on YouTube, then try one of the methods that follow.

Make sure that Autoplay is enabled

Regardless of all of the other settings and options that you tweak and play with, if you havent enabled the autoplay feature on YouTube then it simply will not work. First things first, make sure that autoplay is enabled when youre watching a video. This is simple enough to do, as the autoplay button appears on the same page as any video that you may be watching. Its a toggle switch that is highlighted blue if autoplay is enabled, or greyed out if it is not. If the button looks grey, simply click it once and wait for it to turn blue and for a tick to appear on the switch itself.

Check for Browser Profile Corruption Issues

If youre one of the 15% of the internet population who use Firefox then the chances are that you will also be one of the people who have problems with the YouTube autoplay feature. Fortunately its a fairly simple fix, that just involved getting the latest version of the browser from Mozilla, and pasting a few lines of code into the profile in the AppData folder on your computer. Doing this and then restarting your browser will usually mean that autoplay starts to work again.

Alter the URL

If none of the above solutions work to enable autoplay on your YouTube video, then this little trick probably will. In your browsers URL field where you typed in https://www.youtube.com/, simply add ?autoplay=1 to the end of your videos URL. This will set the value of the autoplay feature to 1, which is translated into true by the browser. The browser then knows to enable the autoplay feature on the video that youre watching.

Disable AdBlock

People who are using various different internet browsers and have had problems with YouTubes Autoplay feature in the past have found that the issue can often be resolved by disabling AdBlock. If you have AdBlock then you will find it under your browsers add-ons or extensions, and adding YouTube as an exception will probably fix the issue so that autoplay works again. Of course the main disadvantage of this method is that you will be forced to watch the ads, and on YouTube there are a lot of them.

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