Glad to know I'm not the only one with this problem, but it's sad this has been a known issue for 7 years and twitch has not done a thing to fix it

Still waiting for this, as well as an option to turn off autoplay for the most recent stream on their profile page.

Was watching a backlog of Hardcore Minecraft let's plays from a streamer and went to their channel to get the next video before the autoplay spoiled the "You Died" screen on their most recent stream. Cool. That was the only reason I decided to watch the series on Twitch instead of their YouTube channel. lmfao. By continuing to be a lazy, garbage company, they've once again convinced someone to not want to use their platform. Why is it so hard to get simple, quality of life UI updates out of these corporations.

Still waiting...

2024 and this annoying Problem ist still around -. -

Cant wait for the day Twitch actually does smth for the community

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.