Facebook Expands Periscope-Like Live Video to All iPhone Users

Picket out, Periscope. Facebook is bringing the estrus with a major expansion of its live video feature.

Starting today, the feature, which lets you broadcast video from your phone to the social network in real time, is available to all iPhone users in the U.S.

If you live outside the U.Southward., don't feel left out. The social network plans to start rolling out live video for iPhone users in the rest of the world in "the coming weeks." It should too arrive on Android "presently," a Facebook spokesperson told PCMag.

To utilise the characteristic, simply tap Update Condition from the Facebook iPhone app and select the Live Video icon. You tin can write a quick clarification and choose an audition you want to share with before going alive. During the broadcast, you'll see the number of alive viewers, the names of friends who are tuning in, and a real-time stream of comments.

When you cease the circulate, it will be saved to your Facebook Timeline. You lot can opt to leave it there for friends to watch subsequently, or delete it if you said or did something embarrassing.

Meanwhile, live videos from your friends and people you lot follow will prove up right in your News Feed. While watching a live video, just tap the Subscribe button to be notified the adjacent time that person starts dissemination.

Facebook outset started experimenting with alive streaming this summer, but at the time limited the adequacy to celebrities with verified profiles. In Dec, the visitor started testing it with a "small percentage" of regular, not-famous U.Southward. users on iPhones. That same month, Facebook extended the feature to all verified pages (aka those with bluish checkmarks).

This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.

Nearly Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fettle and smart home products. Teaching yoga for virtually x years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fettle trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, force training machines, treadmills, and more than. Angela likewise tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, only to name a few.