add the ability to turn off autoplay/auto resume past broadcasts. it's really annoying when i pause a past broadcast to swap to a live broadcast on a different tab. then the tab auto resume playing a past broadcast with touching anything

it will never be added as this autoplay is generating millions of fake plays each day and allow twitch to earn more money without doing anything.

2023 and still waiting for this feature -_-

Really want this implemented

Yeah plz ! Give me Turn off Auto play on Mobile....

I ended up just writing a simple bookmarklet for this. Keep in mind this was made for use in chrome, and I really just winged it. It just waits for the amount of time you set in minute, and then simulates a click on the twitch player, which pauses it. Your mileage may vary, but works for me. Obviously the twitch tab will also have to be in the foreground. To use it, just save the following as a bookmark, with the code being the URL, and the name being whatever. Then when you click that bookmark on the twitch page, it'll pop up a dialogue for the time and a confirmation box after.

javascript: var minutes = prompt("Enter number of minutes until pause (decimals are okay as well)"); setTimeout(function() { document.querySelector("#root > div > div.Layout-sc-nxg1ff-0.qViOJ > div.Layout-sc-nxg1ff-0.kXaHWh > main > div.root-scrollable.scrollable-area.scrollable-area--suppress-scroll-x > div.simplebar-scroll-content > div > div > div.InjectLayout-sc-588ddc-0.persistent-player > div > div.Layout-sc-nxg1ff-0.video-player > div > div > div > div > div.InjectLayout-sc-588ddc-0.click-handler.gkrBD").click(); }, (minutes * 60000)); alert("Timer set for " + Math.trunc(minutes/60) + ((Math.trunc(minutes/60)==1) ? " hour" : " hours") + " and " + (minutes % 60) + ((minutes % 60==1) ? " minute" : " minutes"));

If you have an iPhone: Use iOS built-in clock app for a workaround: Simply open the Clock app, navigate to the Timer tab, and set up a timer for, let’s say, 1 hour. As the "When the timer ends" event, use the "Stop Playing" entry. This will stop playback of all applications. This also works for many other applications, not just twitch.

Maybe there’s a similar function on android?

Please enable the option to turn off autoplay. Whether awake or sleeping, it's a hassle on a platform where LONG content is the norm. It doesn't make sense for the site and I don't know of anyone who enjoys having autoplay as a permanent feature.

yes we don't need more sound to hear

Yeah, especially when you are struggling with OBS and Dialing in your system until 4AM and then crash yourself. Who wants to wait and then delete the 20 min piece of nothing that is a separate VOD before they sleep?

Please give ability to disable auto-play

Please fix this, I’m in the same boat as everyone here. It is honestly ridiculous at this point. I wake up and my phone is boiling hot with some teenager screaming whilst playing a game I’ve never even seen in my life. It’s stupid, please let us toggle this off in the app or give us a sleep timer option, either would do. Just address or solve this already it’s ridiculous

add a **** sleep timer like audiobooks have at least jesus

What a user-unfriendly way to design the website. Nobody wants to have a random person's streaming autoplaying. Just a disgrace in respect for your community, especially the auto-playing videos on mute in tabs that haven't been un-minimized. Youtube had this in the bag ages ago.

It's totally insane. This has been a reported problem since 2017! Does it really take 4 whole years to implement a simple feature that's so common? Come on twitch do it already. I don't enjoy being woken up by a completely random dude screaming at some random game that I've never even heard of.

What an insanely unfriendly policy to not allow viewers to opt out of autoplay. I feel silly even asking for this because clearly Twitch is deaf to user experience.

seconded

Yeah i wish i didnt have to immediately stop a twitch stream every time i come here

Totally agree. I'd like to ask Twitch to go further. Videos automatically play and they're automatically muted, and this is impossible to shut off.

Earlier today while watching a VOD I had a crash, so I rebooted and I decided to do something else and continue watching afterwards. I opened an new browser window and did my task, and my computer was dragging and struggling. I checked and it turned out that when I rebooted, the VOD I had been watching autoplayed, but muted, and I had no idea it was still eating up memory and bandwidth.

Stuff like this has happened before. It looks like, to me, the browser doesn't even have to be open on the tab Twitch is on, and VODS will autoplay muted. It's gotten to the point that when I remember to do it, I close the browser tab when I'm not watching Twitch to make sure it doesn't autoplay.

This is not only annoying, it's quite obviously a cheezy and underhanded attempt to get more views on Twitch and to claim ad revenue for unwatched ads. Make a toggle so that autoplay is an option, make a toggle so play pauses at the end of a VOD, and make a toggle to turn off auto-mute of VODS.

Please do this. I'm asking you nicely at this time, but I'm not above contacting Twitch's advertisers and advising them they're paying for unwatched advertising. You're also using my machine and bandwidth I pay for to deliver content, and I can and will totally bill Twitch TV for bandwidth wasted by the service, especially if your content delivery policies cause me to exceed my monthly bandwidth limit. In fact, if Twitch is going to email me about this content, please include your billing address, just to make things easier. I *will* send you logs and I *will* bill you.

for anyone looking still there is a plugin for chrome called betterttv that in the options lets you turn off autoplay for videos