How To Change Default Video Player In Android Easily 2019

How To Change Default Video Player In Android Easily 2019

Hello my dear friend, So you are an android phone user and need to change the default video player of your phone so that you can open video files in only that app and not on any other apps. This is very easy to do and would take only just 1 or 2 minutes. Let's see how to do it!

Possible Reasons Why You Are Searching This

• You accidentally clicked on a wrong app when a popup asked for you to select a video player when you started to play a video and soon realized that the app doesn't support the video file or you are not comfortable using that video player.
• You need to try out a new video player that you just installed, but whenever you open a video media file it just opens in the default media player of your phone.

Change Default Video Player In Android

Here are the things that you need before going into this article: a video player other than your phone's default one like MX player, vlc media player, etc. (in the case you need to change your default video player of your phone only)

Here are the simple and easy steps you need to follow to do it easily:-

1. Open Settings > Apps > More or any three dots > Reset apps > Reset apps. (this step may vary with different phones, but the basic would be something like this, I know you will figure it out !)
2. Now, open any video file on your phone, and a prompt will be asked to you to select a video player from your phone. Here select your preferred one (planning to be set as default).
3. Also, click "Always". this will make the app to open any of the media (video) files of the phone in that specific app.

That's All! It is how you change the default video file player of your smartphone easily. This basic understanding can be applied to set default video player, music player, email app, pdf reader, etc. Some of the users reported that this method does not work in the android 8.0 oreo version. In that case, you could follow these steps:-

1. Go to the Play Store.
2. Download and Install any video player of your choice.
3. Open any saved video file of your phone
4. Here you would get a prompt asking you to select a default video player, now select your desired one and boom! you successfully changed your default app.

You can always delete the video player app that you installed if you don't want that anymore. 

Conclusion

That's it! You had known how to change the default video player in android in 2019 easily with this easy to follow article. If you have any doubts or suggestions for this article, you can always comment it down below or shoot me up with a message on Instagram and I will help you out for sure. you can read this also- How To DELETE Other People's Status On WhatsApp