Disable autoplay of videos in the Mac App Store

If you are one of those who frequently use your computer on the move, you will have your Mac configured to perform a minimal data consumption. On the other hand, you may not like that as soon as you get to content, the videos on this page are play automatically.

Today we tell you the way by which Videos from the Mac App Store may not play automatically, avoiding these content downloads unnecessarily and saving on the data rate if we are using it. The option is very simple but you must know how to access it quickly.

In addition, this does not prevent us from continuing to watch videos from the Mac App Store, but we must activate them automatically, as soon as we want to reproduce them. Of course, we must activate them manually.

Disable autoplay:

To do this, you must follow the following steps:

  1. Access to the Mac App Store.
  2. Now, you must go to the application preferences. To do this you must access the address bar, where it indicates "App Store" and click on it.
  3. Select Preferences or press Command +,
  4. Within the preferences, you must deactivate the option Automatic video playback.
  5. After this action, you can close preferences.
  6. Close the Mac App Store and reopen it to verify that the actions have taken effect.

Some users indicate that the option to reduce movement On macOS, videos from the Mac App Store are automatically disabled.

The Mac App Store has been completely revamped with the release of the first version of macOS Mojave. This new version wins when it comes to offering us recommendations regarding applications. An example from this weekend are the video applications that can be integrated with Final Cut Pro X. Every week we find personalized articles to offer us applications that we may not be familiar with and, on the contrary, they can make our lives easier.

The Mac App Store had to make a qualitative leap to generate needs with Mac users. Weeks ago we commented on the movements of the competition to bring application stores to market, in this case Games store, which will surely give a lot to talk about in the coming months.


Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked with *

*

*

  1. Responsible for the data: Miguel Ángel Gatón
  2. Purpose of the data: Control SPAM, comment management.
  3. Legitimation: Your consent
  4. Communication of the data: The data will not be communicated to third parties except by legal obligation.
  5. Data storage: Database hosted by Occentus Networks (EU)
  6. Rights: At any time you can limit, recover and delete your information.