Disable autoplay audio and video in Safari using Webkit

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Hello

Could some please suggest Webkit settings to ‘apply’ so that webpages do not start rendering embedded audio & video streams - which is so annoying!

It is a pity apple is shipping a default browser in billions of user devices that do not have an option to disable video & audio autopaying..

Posted on Nov 20, 2025 1:06 AM

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Answer 1

To fully disable autoplay:

After this, Safari behaves like Firefox with autoplay disabled — nothing starts playing unless YOU click it.

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Answer 2

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Safari for iOS/iphone has Feature flags for webkit

These setting needs to be tweaked to disable autoplay.

Any ideas @as28

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