You can still tap to toggle a video and all subsequent ones back to silent.
But if you tap to turn one video’s sound on, indicated with a speaker icon in the bottom left, all other videos will autoplay with sound too for the rest of your Instagram session. When you open Instagram, videos will still autoplay with the sound off. Now Instagram has confirmed to us “this new update rolled out recently” and here’s how it works for all organic videos and ads. This weekend TechCrunch spotted that some Instagram videos in the feed were autoplaying with audio.
Luckily Instagram has found a happy medium between defaulting autoplay video sound on or off.
Autoplay audio can be annoying or convenient depending on the situation.
