Instagram videos now play automatically on Android
The videos is the trending content. Despite the fervor for selfies, moving images seem to be poised to be the next big content for mobile devices s. They've been doing it for a while now applications like Instagram and Vine , in very different formats, and Facebook has shown that the introduction of more videos on the walls of social networks generates more incomePerhaps for this reason, the aforementioned Instagram, owned by Facebook, has decided to include mandatory the autoreproducción of videos Something that users of Android might not like too much
Thus, a new update has been released for the platform Android , with a very brief list of news. In fact, only one new feature is listed: Videos now play automatically in the newsfeed Something that previously could be relatively controlled from the menu settings and that, now, forces the videos to be displayed when browsing the wall of this photography social network. Thus, it will no longer be necessary to click on a video for it to start showing.
To date, Instagram, as well as Facebook , has played around with this feature, allowing that in previous versions it could be configured to prevent loading videos you don't want to seeAnd this can mean a data saving compared to downloading and playing all the videos that appear on the wall of News However, in the same list of news, Instagram ensures that this new feature will not affect the volume of data handled by the application.Although it's kind of hard to believe.
In this way, the user can access the settings menu from the profile tab by clicking on the button with the three dots When accessing to the videos section it is only possible to choose the way to preload the videos. That is, download them so that they are available for reproduction through a WiFi connection, thus avoiding the consumption of the Internet rate, or from WiFi and data However, there is no option to prevent autoplayIn previous versions it did not exist either, but using the option only on WiFi allowed this application to avoid extra consumption.
With all this, from now on, Instagram begins to showshowing the videos being played Just by going through them Quite a convenience for users who like this content and don't mind consuming some data. But why does it change its operation now? If we follow the trail of what was seen on Facebook during the past year, when this tool was also applied, everything would point to a consumption more videos And, by the way, to the introduction of announcements At the moment it is only a theory, since the inInstagram has not yet reached the market Spanish, but it would make sense after Notable results in terms of income that Facebook has achieved by including more videos and autoreproducción of these on the walls.
At the moment it is only a measure that offers comfort to the user And, in theory, without consuming more data from your Internet rate. The new update of Instagram is now available for Android via Google Play totally free
