--- title: "How to Loop a Video in Google Slides (2026) | loop.video" description: "Google Slides has no loop button for videos. Here’s the workaround that works in 2026: make a long looping file, autoplay it, and loop the whole presentation." url: https://loop.video/loop-video-google-slides --- Free · runs in your browser # How to loop a video in Google Slides Slides can start a video by itself but can’t repeat it. Put the repeats inside the file instead, then loop the slideshow if the whole deck should run on its own. Google Slides can’t loop a video: the **Video playback** options only choose how a video starts, and it stops at the end. The workaround is to make the video long enough before you insert it, for example repeating a 15-second clip to ten minutes, and set it to **Play (automatically)**. To the audience it looks like a loop. The looper on this page makes that file in your browser. Leave **Repeat** on **Length** at 10 min, or pick 1 hour for a screen at an event, and export an MP4\. Then upload it to Google Drive and insert it from there. Steps for both halves are below, along with how to loop the entire presentation and when a GIF is the simpler answer. ## Loop a video in Google Slides, step by step 1. ### Make a long looping version Open the clip in the tool above. **Repeat** is set to **Length** at 10 min; pick 30 min or 1 hour if the slide stays up longer. Press **Find the best loop** for a clean join, then **Export video** and **Download video**. 2. ### Upload it to Google Drive Slides inserts videos from Google Drive or YouTube, not straight from your computer. Upload the MP4 to Drive first, in the same account you use for Slides. 3. ### Insert it on the slide In Slides, choose **Insert** → **Video**, open the **Google Drive** tab, select the file and press **Insert**. Resize it on the slide as you like. 4. ### Set it to play automatically With the video selected, open **Format options** and expand **Video playback**. Choose **Play (automatically)**. Tick **Mute audio** for a silent background. 5. ### Present and check Press **Slideshow** and let the video run past the original clip’s end. It carries on, because the repeats are in the file. ## Why Google Slides can’t loop a video PowerPoint has a **Loop until Stopped** checkbox; Google Slides has nothing equivalent. Its **Video playback** panel offers three ways to start a video, **Play (on click)**, **Play (automatically)** and **Play (manual)**, plus **Start at** and **End at** times and **Mute audio**. When the video reaches its end, it stops on its last frame. That is why the reliable answers all change the video rather than the slide. A file that already contains the repeats needs no player setting at all, and behaves the same in the editor, in presenter view, in a published deck and on someone else’s computer. ### How long should the file be? * For a slide you talk over, 5 to 10 minutes is plenty. * For a lobby screen or an event backdrop, 1 hour (or up to three) means nobody sees it end. * Size grows with length: the estimate under **Export settings** shows it before you export. A short, simple clip at 720p keeps an hour manageable for Drive. ## Loop the whole presentation If the deck should run round and round on its own, Slides can do that part. There are two ways: 1. While presenting, open the options menu (⋮) in the toolbar at the bottom of the slideshow, choose **Auto-play**, pick how long each slide stays up, tick **Loop** and press **Play**. 2. For a link anyone can open, choose **File** → **Share** → **Publish to web**, pick an **Auto-advance slides** interval and tick **Restart the slideshow after the last slide** before you publish. Auto-advance moves on after the set time whether a video has finished or not. Give the video slide a timing at least as long as the part you want seen, or make the looping file match the slide timing so it never visibly ends. ## A GIF loops by itself For a short, silent animation, there is a simpler route: Slides treats a GIF as an image, and GIFs repeat on their own. Make one with the [MP4 to GIF converter](https://loop.video/mp4-to-gif) (or switch **Format** to GIF in the tool above), then insert it with **Insert** → **Image** → **Upload from computer**. It loops in the editor and in the slideshow, with no Drive upload and no playback settings. Keep GIFs short and narrow, a few seconds at 480 to 800 pixels wide, so the deck stays quick to open. For anything with sound or longer than about ten seconds, the looping MP4 is the better choice. ## YouTube videos in Google Slides Slides can insert a YouTube video by search or **By URL**, with the same **Video playback** options and no loop. YouTube’s own loop setting, described in [how to loop a YouTube video](https://loop.video/loop-youtube-video), doesn’t carry over into Slides. If the video is yours, loop your original file here and insert the result from Drive; if it isn’t, the [YouTube video looper](https://loop.video/youtube-video-looper) repeats it in a browser window, outside Slides. Looping in other presentation software works differently: PowerPoint has a built-in option, covered in [looping a video in PowerPoint](https://loop.video/loop-video-powerpoint). ## Looping videos in Google Slides: common questions ### Can you loop a video in Google Slides? Not with a setting. Slides only chooses how a video starts. Make the video longer before inserting it, by repeating it to 10 minutes or an hour, and set it to **Play (automatically)**. ### How do I make a video play automatically in Google Slides? Select the video, open **Format options**, expand **Video playback** and choose **Play (automatically)**. It starts as soon as the slide appears in the slideshow. ### How do I loop a Google Slides presentation? In the slideshow, open ⋮ → **Auto-play**, choose a timing, tick **Loop** and press **Play**. For a published deck, tick **Restart the slideshow after the last slide** in **Publish to web**. ### Why can’t I insert a video from my computer? Slides takes videos from Google Drive or YouTube. Upload the file to Drive first, then use **Insert** → **Video** → **Google Drive**. ### Do GIFs loop in Google Slides? Yes. Inserted as an image, a GIF plays on its own and repeats according to its loop setting, which is forever for most GIFs. ### Will a long looping video make my presentation slow? The video streams from Drive, so the deck itself stays light, but a large file can take a moment to start. A short loop at 720p keeps even an hour-long file reasonable. ## More looping guides * [ Loop a video online Repeat a clip, stretch it to any length or make it seamless, in your browser. ](https://loop.video/) * [ How to loop a video in PowerPoint Turn on Loop until Stopped, set the video to start by itself and loop the whole slideshow. ](https://loop.video/loop-video-powerpoint) * [ Loop a video for 1 hour Make 10-minute, 30-minute and hour-long loop files, with the file size worked out first. ](https://loop.video/loop-video-for-an-hour) * [ Convert MP4 to GIF An MP4-to-GIF converter with width, frame rate, dithering and a file-size limit. ](https://loop.video/mp4-to-gif) * [ Make a website background video loop A small, silent, crossfaded loop in WebM and MP4, with the HTML to play it. ](https://loop.video/background-video-loop) * [ Make a seamless loop video Find the loop point automatically, rate the join and hide it with a crossfade or blend. ](https://loop.video/seamless-loop-video)