@MPStreamer wrote:
I just confirmed on my Roku...
My Amazon Prime app is version 11.8 - build 2021051411
The setting is named "Autoplay" but the text in that setting specifically says:
"Autoplay
Turning previews off will stop previews autoplaying on this device"
It was set to "on" by default when I checked, and switched it to "off". I'm happy to report this does in fact disable those autoplaying previews. Thank goodness!
I don't know when my Roku updated to that version of the app, but the build # indicates it's only 10-11 days old, and probably less than that since it was pushed out. I don't know if I would have checked that setting menu again if I hadn't seen the recent comment. I know I checked a while back and it wasn't there, so it's definitely new.
So thank you thank you thank you for checking that and pointing it out! It was driving me bananas... I'd just have to mute while using the app until I started whatever. It really discouraged me from browsing around in there because I hated all the random things that would start playing if I dared to pause for more than 1 second on anything.
Like many apps/app designs, the Prime app has (at least) two layers:
1) platform layer (handles interfacing with the platform APIs/functions), updates via platform update mechanism and
2) UI layer (provides the UI functionality/appearance), updates on runtime/loadtime
This is how folks with the same app version can/may have different UI-layer versions (and thus different UIs, such as non-autoplay and auto-play).
The Prime app doesnt show any version information internally, either platform or UI layer (at least on the old UI).
The platform-layer update (11.8.2021051411) happened a week ago (5/18), though this in fact was a UI-layer (runtime/loadtime) update, not a platform-layer update, which is why you wouldnt have noticed it anyway.
Regardless, its good news for users.
