diff --git a/src/components/Attachments/AttachmentView/index.tsx b/src/components/Attachments/AttachmentView/index.tsx
index df6763859e07..c20c87b66717 100644
--- a/src/components/Attachments/AttachmentView/index.tsx
+++ b/src/components/Attachments/AttachmentView/index.tsx
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ function AttachmentView({
 }: AttachmentViewProps) {
     const [transaction] = useOnyx(`${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.TRANSACTION}${getNonEmptyStringOnyxID(transactionID)}`, {canBeMissing: true});
     const {translate} = useLocalize();
-    const {updateCurrentURLAndReportID, playVideo} = usePlaybackContext();
+    const {updateCurrentURLAndReportID, currentlyPlayingURL, playVideo} = usePlaybackContext();
 
     const attachmentCarouselPagerContext = useContext(AttachmentCarouselPagerContext);
     const {onAttachmentError} = attachmentCarouselPagerContext ?? {};
@@ -144,11 +144,12 @@ function AttachmentView({
         if (!isFocused && !isInFocusedModal && !(file && isUsedInAttachmentModal)) {
             return;
         }
-        updateCurrentURLAndReportID(isVideo && typeof source === 'string' ? source : undefined, reportID);
-        if (isVideo && typeof source === 'string') {
+        const videoSource = isVideo && typeof source === 'string' ? source : undefined;
+        updateCurrentURLAndReportID(videoSource, reportID);
+        if (videoSource && currentlyPlayingURL === videoSource) {
             playVideo();
         }
-    }, [file, isFocused, isInFocusedModal, isUsedInAttachmentModal, isVideo, reportID, source, updateCurrentURLAndReportID, playVideo]);
+    }, [file, isFocused, isInFocusedModal, isUsedInAttachmentModal, isVideo, reportID, source, updateCurrentURLAndReportID, playVideo, currentlyPlayingURL]);
 
     const [imageError, setImageError] = useState(false);
 
diff --git a/src/components/VideoPlayerContexts/PlaybackContext/index.tsx b/src/components/VideoPlayerContexts/PlaybackContext/index.tsx
index 78861142b6c9..0ce29dda869e 100644
--- a/src/components/VideoPlayerContexts/PlaybackContext/index.tsx
+++ b/src/components/VideoPlayerContexts/PlaybackContext/index.tsx
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ function PlaybackContextProvider({children}: ChildrenProps) {
 
             if (!url) {
                 if (currentlyPlayingURL) {
-                    video.stop();
+                    video.pause();
                 }
                 return;
             }