How to Loop Google Slides

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Google Slides is an essential tool for business and education both online and offline. Thanks to this program, we get free access to countless presentation functions without the need for additional software.

Google Slides are constantly improving; Today, you can have your slides automatically advance and repeat for the smoothest presentation possible. How is this option enabled? Keep reading to find out.

When presenting your Google Slides, you can use the arrow buttons on your keyboard to move to the next screen. You can also press the slide number and press Enter to go to a specific slide. While this certainly gives you a lot of control, it can be a bit complicated when you just want the slides to play in the background while you give a presentation. Without the loop option enabled, you must press the number 1 on your keyboard and then Enter to return to the beginning of the presentation.

The ability to loop your slideshow is included within the Google Slides autoplay features, which were introduced in 2019. This feature allows you to set the duration of your slides and allow the slideshow to play repeatedly until you pause or stop it manually.

Looping slides is a fantastic solution in many situations. You can use it to display information or promotional material at a trade show or enhance an oral presentation with some images. Therefore, learning how to use it can be useful. Read the guide below to learn how to play Google Slides on various platforms.

How to Loop Google Slides on PC

You’ll need to open your presentation and enter Slideshow mode to enable looping. Here’s how to do it on a PC.

1. Launch Google Chrome and open the Google Slides Web Application.
   
2. Choose the presentation you want to edit.
   
3. Hit the Slideshow button in the upper right corner of the screen.
   
4. Move the cursor to the bottom left corner of the slide. Click on the three point menu next to the slide number.
   
5. Move the cursor to the Self-reproduction option.
   
6. Select how long you want your slides to display.
   
7. Allow Loop at the bottom of the dropdown menu.
   
8. When you are ready to start your presentation, click Play at the top of the same drop-down menu.
   

The slides will repeat indefinitely. If you need to pause the presentation to answer some questions or similar, look for the pause button as follows:

1. Move the cursor to the lower left corner of the screen. press the three points in the toolbar.
   
2. Hover over Self-reproduction.
   
3. Press Pause at the top of the menu.
   

You’ll need to enable looping every time you present from Google Slides, since you can’t save these preferences within the app. However, you can publish your slideshow with autoplay and loop enabled as follows:

1. When you are finished with your presentation, click Archive.
   
2. Select Publish on the web.
   
3. Choose how fast you want your slides to advance automatically.
   
4. Make sure Restart the slideshow after the last slide. It is checked.
   
5. You may also want to enable the Start the slideshow as soon as the player loads option. Otherwise, the viewer will have to click Play for the presentation to begin.
   
6. Share the presentation any way you like or copy its share link.

Whenever you open the slideshow via its sharing link, auto-advance and loop will be enabled by default.

How to Loop Google Slides on an iPhone

Without a doubt, Google Slides is more limited on mobile platforms than on PC. However, having this app in your pocket can come in handy at times. You can make various edits to your presentations, publish or share your slideshow, and present your slides right from your iPhone. However, one feature you might have trouble finding is slideshow repetition.

Slideshow mode offers little flexibility to mobile Google Slides users. If you want to loop your slides while presenting from your iPhone, you’ll need to publish your presentation with this option enabled from a PC and open the sharing link on your phone. Follow these steps to do so.

1. Open Google Slides and then the presentation you want to edit using your PC.
   
2. Click Archiveso Publish on the web.
   
3. Allow Restart the slideshow after the last slide. to repeat the presentation.
   
4. Open the link on your iPhone.
   
5. press the three vertical points in the bottom toolbar.
   
6. Click Play Click the “Autoplay” option to start the loop presentation.
   

You can always edit the autoplay settings for your published presentation in the same three-dot menu.

How to Loop Google Slides on an iPad

Google Slides is easier to use on the big screen of an iPad than it is on an iPhone. That said, the features available on this platform are even more limited than the PC version. If you want to present a looped slideshow from your iPad, you’ll first need to publish the presentation to your PC with the appropriate settings.

1. Gonna Google Slides on your PC and find the presentation you need.
   
2. Press Archive and select Publish on the web.
   
3. Click the check box next to Restart the slideshow after the last slide..
   
4. Share the link with your iPad and follow the same instructions with the steps listed above, same with iPhone.

How to loop Google Slides on Android

As we mentioned, Google Slides has limited features on mobile platforms. If you plan to present looped slides from your Android device by sharing or Chromecasting your screen, you’ll need to take extra steps on your PC beforehand.

1. Open Google Slides in your PC browser.
   
2. Select the presentation you want to repeat.
   
3. Once loaded, click Archive in the menu bar, then Publish on the web.
   
4. Select an auto advance option and make sure Restart the slideshow after the last slide. is enabled.
   
5. Share the file with yourself or simply send the share link to your Android device.
   
6. Open the link in your email.
   
7. Tap on the three vertical points in the lower left corner of your screen.
   
8. Select Self-reproduction and hits the Play option to start the presentation.
   

The slides will advance at the speed you chose when you exported the presentation, but you can change this at any time in the same “Autoplay” menu.

Additional FAQs

Can I loop slides without auto-advance?

Google Slides may trick you into thinking you can repeat slides without turning on auto-advance. After all, you can uncheck auto-forward time intervals while still having “Loop” turned on within your autoplay settings. However, the loop doesn’t actually work without auto-advance. This can be a bit inconvenient, especially since auto-advance doesn’t offer custom time intervals. However, you can still go back to the beginning of your presentation without repeating it by pressing the number 1 key and pressing Enter.

How can I play videos in Google Slides?

If you want to loop a video instead of a slideshow, you can do it similarly in Slideshow mode.

1. When you get to your video slide during your presentation, right click on the video.

2. Enable Loop in the dropdown menu. The video will loop until you move to the next slide manually.

Like the slide loop, you’ll need to enable this feature in your video every time you present.

Can I set my auto-forward and loop preferences before presenting?

As of this writing, presetting your slideshow preferences is not an option in Google Slides. However, publishing your slideshow to the web with the right settings will ensure that your presentation automatically plays and repeats every time it is opened. Follow the instructions above to publish your presentation this way.

Round and round

The loop feature makes Google Slides perfect for background slideshows, but this option can be useful in many different situations. You can play your presentation in Google Slides on PC or publish the slideshow to present on other platforms with the loop already enabled.