Facebook has announced this week the launch of a new video player that is inspired by the famous interface of TikTok. With this change, all videos posted on Facebook will be displayed by default in the vertical format that was popularized by the short video app.
“When you tap on a video anywhere in the Facebook app, you will always see a full-screen, vertically oriented video,” Facebook says in a blog post. “Previously, depending on the video’s duration or where you were watching it, you could see horizontal videos or videos that played in a player similar to the Feed.”
With this new design, Reels, Facebook Live, and long-duration videos will default to a full-screen vertical video format. The appearance of the Facebook video player will also change: a slider at the bottom of the player will allow users to jump to different parts of the video, and we will also be able to pause and rewind with the new controls it includes.
The new video player from Facebook will debut on iOS and Android in the United States and Canada in the coming weeks, before being launched worldwide in the next few months.
