Music stops playing whenever I open Facebook.

All the answers here are wrong.

The only reason turning off the camera or mic works is because that causes the app to restart, which fixes the issue, until you play another video and you're back to square one.

You don't need to restart - you just need to force-quit the Facebook app. It will be fine until you play any media within the fb app again.

Facebook needs to fix this, not Apple.

I went into my iPhone settings, then to Facebook settings and turned off access to my camera. Now I can scroll Facebook and listen to music at the same time. If I watch a video the music pauses but starts again once the video has finished.

Me too. The app continues to pause my music even after doing this. Also, not for nothing but Facebook robot moderators have been non stop banning me from activity for no specified reason. Tired of this app

I’m already did all what you was saying but the problem not fixed yet, The sound stopped whenever I open the Facebook application

It’s blatantly obvious why the music your playing stops and no you can’t stop this from happening by messing with Facebook settings it doesn’t work following those futile instructions . Apple could make there settings work as they should do but there not going to that as that would mean you had control of your own apple device and that would never do ,just received an email from them which contained a file for me to open and view ( but my £600 apple device isn’t compatible, this file was sent from apple to an apple device) so I couldn’t read it . it beggars belief the Controlling arrogance My £600 ipad is absolutely fabulous shame though I’d like to control it how I want I’m sure someone else must think the same !!!!!!!

Thanks for reply

I checked the Facebook settings and the access to the camera and other settings are already off, the problem is still not solved yet I don’t know why!! 😞

Thanks for all the folks here trying to help by toggling various settings, and exploring different menus. I followed along with a few, and some didn’t work, some worked for a few app switches and then stopped working. None seem to be a permanent fix so far for the issue. iPhone 12 Pro Max iOS 15.1

Opened my iPhone settings, went to Facebook and turned off Bluetooth. Turned off Camera and Microphone.

Tested. It worked. Turned Microphone and Camera back on. Music still worked.

Seems to be an issue with Bluetooth and in my instance Apple CarPlay.

After reading several replies, I turned off FB access to photos in settings, tested, and music was working again while using the FB app. So I went back into settings and turned access to all photos back on, and the music continued to play! Turning photo access on and off seemed to be a solution, at least for me. Weird.

I’ve been looking for SOOOOO many solutions. Tried so many things. This is the only one that worked. As soon as I turned my camera access off for FB I went to the app without closing it out before or restarting my phone. And it worked instantly!!

It still does it. Just opening Facebook triggers it.

On my iPad the Facebook “never autoplay video” radio button is already selected. In fact, I couldn’t de-select it. The problem of music turning off when I open FB has just started, I didn’t change any settings but it started happening. Previously music only stopped if I played a video or other sound source from within FB.

go to your settings in facebook, scroll down to preferences and click “media”. there should be a selection that says “never autoplay videos”. restart the app and it should fix the problem.

This has never worked for me unfortunately. It’s frustrating