{"id":57373,"date":"2013-12-12T21:49:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T19:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=57373"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:58:40","slug":"facebook-for-ios-now-auto-plays-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-for-ios-now-auto-plays-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook for iOS now auto-plays videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We already knew <a title=\"Facebook news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/facebook-tags\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> was planning to make videos auto-play in its mobile apps and now it does for <a title=\"iOS news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/ios\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> users. The latest update to Facebook for iOS brings auto-playing videos and bug fixes. While videos will auto-play while you&#8217;re scrolling through your news feed, audio is disabled by default until you tap on the video.<\/p>\n<p>For Facebook users who have bandwidth caps, the company has included the option to only auto-play videos while on Wi-Fi, though \u00a0there&#8217;s no way to disable auto-playing videos entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Auto-playing videos on iOS are a sign of what&#8217;s to come, namely <a title=\"Facebook bringing video ads to News Feed for $2.5 million each\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-bringing-video-ads-to-news-feed-for-2-5-million-each\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video advertising<\/a> on Facebook&#8217;s website. The rumored video ads were rumored to debut sometime <a title=\"Auto-playing video ads are coming to your Facebook news feed\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/auto-playing-video-ads-are-coming-to-your-facebook-news-feed\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this summer<\/a> but they still haven&#8217;t arrived.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download <a title=\"Facebook for iOS review and download\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook for iOS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/instagram-direct-launched-send-photos-and-videos-direct-to-friends\">Instagram Direct launched. Send photos and videos direct to friends.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/check-out-your-worldwide-and-personal-facebook-year-in-review\">Check out your worldwide and personal Facebook Year in Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-testing-a-save-for-later-function\">Facebook testing a &#8216;save for later&#8217; function<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Facebook for iOS download\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/facebook\/id284882215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook for iOS (iTunes)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We already knew Facebook was planning to make videos auto-play in its mobile apps and now it does for iOS users. The latest update to Facebook for iOS brings auto-playing videos and bug fixes. While videos will auto-play while you&#8217;re scrolling through your news feed, audio is disabled by default until you tap on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-for-ios-now-auto-plays-videos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook for iOS now auto-plays videos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-57373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331645,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57373\/revisions\/331645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57373"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=57373"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=57373"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=57373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}