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Sharing to Facebook Reels From iOS
You can integrate sharing into your iOS app so that users can share video content to Facebook Reels. To create a new app, see Getting Started with the Facebook SDK for iOS.
Facebook Reel Layers
The Facebook Reels composer has a background video layer and an optional sticker layer.
- Background Video Layer – A video fills the screen.
- Sticker Layer – An optional sticker can appear in front of the video.
Currently, you can't send sticker data to Facebook Reels from your iOS app.
Download the Sharing Icon
For a consistent user experience across apps, download the standard sharing icon and use it in your app. The sharing icon looks like the following:
Implement Sharing
You use a custom URL scheme to launch the Facebook app and send it content for Reels. The Facebook app receives the content, loads it in the Reels composer, and the user can edit and publish the content to their Facebook Reels.
In general, your sharing flow does the following:
- Verify that your app can resolve Facebook's custom URL scheme.
- Attach content to the pasteboard that you want to share.
- Resolve the custom URL scheme if your app is able to.
Remove any temporary files that you create on the user's device.
Configure Your App for Sharing
Before you can implement sharing in your app, add your app ID and register Facebook's custom URL scheme in the Info.plist file for your app. Add facebook-reels to the LSApplicationQueriesSchemes key. For details, see Configure Your Project.
Data
You send the following data to the Facebook app.
| Data | Type | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
Facebook App ID | Your Facebook App ID. | Yes | |
Background Video | The URL for a video. Videos can be 1080p and should be between 3 and 60 seconds in duration. Acceptable video formats are H.264, H.265, and WebM. Under 50 MB is recommended. | Yes |
Example
The following code example sends a video to Facebook so the user can edit and publish it to their Facebook Reels.
- (void)shareBackgroundVideo
{
// Identify your App ID
NSString *const appIDString = @"1234567890";
// Identify your video content
NSURL *const backgroundVideoURL = [[NSBundle bundleForClass:[self class]]URLForResource:@"your-video-url-goes-here" withExtension:@"mp4"];
NSData *const backgroundVideoData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:backgroundVideoURL];
// Call method to share video
[self backgroundVideo: backgroundVideoData appIDString];
}
// Method to share video
- (void)backgroundVideo:(NSData *)backgroundVideo
appID:(NSString *)appID
{
NSURL *urlScheme = [NSURL URLWithString:@"facebook-reels://share"];
if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:urlScheme])
{
// Add background video to pasteboard items
NSArray *pasteboardItems = @[@{@"com.facebook.sharedSticker.backgroundVideo" : backgroundVideo,
@"com.facebook.sharedSticker.appID" : appID}];
// Set pasteboard options
NSDictionary *pasteboardOptions = @{UIPasteboardOptionExpirationDate : [[NSDate date] dateByAddingTimeInterval:60 * 5]};
// Attach the pasteboard items
// This call is iOS 10+, can use 'setItems' depending on what versions you support
[[UIPasteboard generalPasteboard] setItems:pasteboardItems options:pasteboardOptions];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:urlScheme options:@{} completionHandler:nil];
}
else
{
// Handle error cases
}
}
