turning off auto-play videos in Gallery app

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Is there a way to stop videos from automatically playing in the Gallery app on the Galaxy S9? The only thing I found so far is for older S phones and nothing works. I tried checking settings while having a video open and not seeing anything about turning off auto-play.
 
I had same problem on my S8+.
Kept looking through all kinds of settings on phone, within gallery app. . .everywhere. never found any placeto turn off autoplay.
But then I went to the "photos" app. Bingo. There, under the 3 dots, was the option to turn off autoplay. Very confusing because I always used gallery to play videos but here's the optionto control playback video within the photos app, which I never used to play video!
 
I have the same question. I am using a Galaxy S8+ with android 8.0.
When I use the default Samsung Gallery to view pictures and videos, videos autoplay in a preview window. How do I turn this off?