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MNA Science & Tech Desk: Facebook announced a suite of new changes to its video platform today, including a new setting that will auto play videos with the sound turned on by default.
This change means that, if your phone is not set to silent and you haven’t disabled the feature in Facebook’s mobile settings panel, every video in the News Feed will have audio fading in as you scroll past it.
In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook said that as people had begun watching more video on phones, they expected sound when the volume on their devices was turned on.
‘After testing sound on News Feed and hearing positive feedback, we’re slowly bringing it to more people. With this update, sound fades in and out as you scroll through videos in News Feed, bringing those videos to life,’ Facebook said.
However, if the phone is on silent mode, videos will not play with sound. Users can also disable the feature of auto play in Settings.
Earlier on Facebook, you could either scroll through your News Feed or watch a video. But in its latest update, users can now scroll through News Feed and watch a video by minimizing that to a picture-in-picture view that would keep the video playing in any corner of the screen.
