Question How to stop youtube videos from auto-playing in a text message (Google Messages App)

[Android Dude777]

My phone used to just show underlined url's for youtube videos when a link was included in a text message. Then I started noticing that under the url in the text message, it would show a player (with a pic from the video) that I could click on to play the video. Now sometimes, the video auto-plays. How can I stop the video from auto-playing?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Open your Google Messages app, tap your profile pic at the upper right , then Messages Settings>Automatic Previews, and toggle them off. Does that help?

 

[Android Dude777]

I tried that, but it didn't help (I restarted my phone too). Although it's kind of strange. Most youtube video links in the texts sent to me just show a static image of a player that I can click on if i want to watch it, but a new video I received today autoplays, and when I tap on it to stop it, ANOTHER player pops up above the first player and is still playing the video, and it is somewhat difficult to get it go away (if i touch the player and drag it down, an X appears and if I act fast enough, i can tap the X and the video stops playing...) Is this an "upgrade"?

 

[Android Dude777]

I just noticed that if I scroll away from the video, so that I can's see it anymore, and then scroll back to it, it has stopped. That's fairly easy to do, but I still would like it to not auto-start at all.