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Facebook: How to Change Video Quality

By Mel Hawthorne 6 Comments

Facebook has so many settings it can be hard to keep track of them all. One that may come in handy is the ability to restrict or set the video quality Facebook videos play at. There are two settings – HD and SD. High and Standard Definition. The former is higher quality, while the latter uses far less data to load and play.

So, for users with metred connections or limited mobile data, it may well be worth making sure that any Facebook videos they play run on the lower quality setting.

To accomplish this, log into your Facebook account and go to your settings via the arrow in the top right corner.

SettingsTip: This option is only available on computers, not in the mobile version.

Within your settings, you’ll find an option for Video on the left-hand side, towards the bottom. Click on it and you’ll see several options regarding videos on Facebook.

Video settings

Among them is also the ability to turn auto-play on or off – if you want to turn that off too so that videos don’t start playing until you manually start them, this is the perfect opportunity! Otherwise, use the dropdown option Video Default Quality and set it to your preferred option.

You have three choices – Default, SD only and HD whenever available. Pick the option you would like. Facebook saves your setting automatically, so that’s all you have to do!

Tip: You can’t force non-HD videos to be HD. It depends entirely on how high-quality the original file was. In other words, if your videos still aren’t higher quality after you set this to HD it’s probably that the uploaded videos aren’t high enough quality!

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  1. JEAN says

    December 30, 2021 at 11:41 am

    My video was made in HD in iMovie. FB keeps changing quality to SD…I have to constantly be going in and making sure HD is on… FB you have to get this right….Very frustrating. PLEASE STOP CHANGING MY VIIDEO FROM HD TO SD…….

  2. Misha Samson says

    February 17, 2021 at 11:43 am

    I have exact same issue.. I post videos (VLOGs) on my business page daily. They are downloaded in HD but autoplay in SD. I have to change each one individually each time to change to HD and each time you go to my business page you have to do it (it doesn’t save that auto setting), One thing thats weird is i also post (copy) the video to my personal page but on that page it autoplays in HD!! Wtf.

  3. Bob says

    January 21, 2021 at 11:34 am

    Doesn’t work. Changed to SD because entire video screen cannot be seen in HD, but it still automatically plays everything in 1080 p so only a part of the video is displayed without going all the way to fullscreen.

  4. Robert says

    January 19, 2021 at 11:09 am

    Nope, Doesn’t work.

  5. Fr. Christopher Pietraszko says

    November 5, 2020 at 1:02 pm

    This setting hasn’t changed anything. My videos are uploaded on Youtube just fine at 4K , but on Facebook its only at a maximum of 720p . Very frustrating.

  6. bill frank says

    October 26, 2020 at 7:48 pm

    Doesn’t work. I still have to go to the gear icon every single time I watch any video and change it from sd to hd, and then back up the video.

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