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Phone galleries are built to play a clip once. Here is where to look for a repeat option in Google Photos and on Samsung phones, and how to make a video that loops on any screen.
To loop a video on Android, open it in your gallery app and check the player’s menu (the three dots, usually top right) for a loop or repeat option. Whether one exists depends on the app and its version, so if you cannot find it, the dependable answer is to save a new video with the clip repeated inside it.
Android is not one app. Pixel phones and many others use Google Photos, Samsung phones use Gallery with Samsung’s own player, and other makers ship their own galleries. Their menus change often and neither Google nor Samsung documents a loop control in its help pages, so this guide sticks to what their official help confirms and is clear about the rest.
A looped file works everywhere: on a TV, in a message or in any player. You can make one in an editor such as CapCut, or loop the video in your browser with loop.video, which runs in Chrome on your phone without uploading the clip.
Open Google Photos or your phone’s Gallery app and tap the video so it plays full screen.
Tap the video once to show the controls, then tap the three-dot More menu. In Google Photos it sits at the top right of the player, where Google documents the Playback speed option.
If the menu offers a loop or repeat option, switch it on and play the clip again. It should restart by itself at the end. The wording differs between apps and versions.
If Gallery shows no repeat option, open Gallery, tap Menu → Settings and turn on Open in Video Player. Videos then open in Samsung’s Video Player, which has its own menu to check.
If neither player repeats, save a version of the video with the clip copied several times, as described below. That file loops in every player without any setting.
Google Photos is the default gallery on Pixel phones and is installed on most other Android phones. Google’s help pages describe a More menu at the top right of the video player with a Playback speed option. They do not describe a loop setting, and Google has been redesigning the player, so a loop control may appear in that menu or under the video on your version, or not at all.
The editor is better documented. Open a video, tap Edit, and you can trim it: touch and hold, then drag the trim handles to the part you want, and tap Save at the top to keep a copy with your edit. Trimming to a short, clean section is a useful first step before looping, because the loop will then restart on the moment you chose rather than on a shaky first second.
On Galaxy phones, videos play inside the Gallery app by default. Samsung’s support pages for One UI 7 explain how to send them to the separate Video Player instead: Gallery → Menu → Settings, then turn on Open in Video Player. Turning the same switch off brings back Gallery’s own playback controls.
Samsung’s official help does not describe a repeat option in either app. Owners report that on many models the Video Player’s own menu includes a repeat setting and that Gallery has none, but this varies by model and One UI version. If you have the Video Player, open a clip in it and look through its menu and settings; if nothing repeats, the looped-file method below is the reliable fallback.
If the video will be played on a TV, sent to someone or posted, a player setting on your phone does not help. The repeats need to be inside the file, so it plays the clip three times, or for ten minutes, wherever it is opened.
Whichever route you use, a good loop starts with a good join. If the last frame does not match the first, every repeat will show a jump. The seamless loop guide explains how to pick loop points and when a crossfade helps.
loop.video works in Chrome on Android, and on a computer if you prefer a bigger screen. The video is processed on the device and never uploaded, and there is no account or watermark.
Know the limits before you start. Files are capped at three hours, the video is usually re-encoded, and it does not change speed, reverse a clip or fetch videos from websites. Very long exports take longer on a phone than on a laptop, although the loop is encoded once and then written again for each repeat, so even an hour of a short clip does not take an hour to make.
Google’s help pages do not document one. Check the three-dot More menu at the top right of the player and the controls under the video; if a loop option is there on your version, switch it on. If not, make a looped copy of the clip.
Samsung does not document a repeat option in Gallery. You can switch videos to Samsung’s Video Player with Gallery → Menu → Settings → Open in Video Player and check that player’s menu, or save a version of the video that repeats.
Many gallery players play a clip once unless a repeat option is switched on. A loop setting, where your app has one, only affects playback on that phone, so a video sent to someone else will still stop at the end.
Trim a copy in Google Photos first (Edit, drag the trim handles, Save), then loop that. Or use a tool that sets a start and end point for the loop, such as loop.video.
Duplicate the clip twice in a video editor and export, or choose Number of times in a browser looper and set it to 3.
A loop setting in a player changes nothing in the file. Saving a new looped file usually re-encodes the video, which can lose a little detail; choosing a higher quality setting when you export keeps the loss small.
Yes. Use whatever repeat option your gallery offers, or open a browser looper in Chrome. Neither needs a new app.