Facebook iOS App - Video Auto-Play Interrupts Airplay Stream

Has anyone else noticed that since Facebook implemented video auto-play that if you are on wi-fi, have the FB app open, and are streaming over Airplay, that when the app encounters a video and plays, the Airplay stream drops, requiring you to restart Airplay manually?
I am guessing this was an unintended result of Facebook implementing this feature, but it's annoying. The only workarounds that I'm aware of are to change the FB app setting to only allow videos to play over wi-fi and then shutting off wi-fi on the phone, or just simply using one iDevice just for streaming and another for checking the app, but it is darned inconvenient. I reported this to FB as a bug, but I doubt that they will reverse their decision about it, unless Apple tells FB to change this.
Can Apple require Facebook to add the ability to turn off auto-play completely in the app, since the app's behavior is technically interfering with an Apple-specific system service (Airplay) in iOS?

Just as an addendum: the behavior of the FB app technically violates Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for managing audio interruptions:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/ mobilehig/Sound.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH44-SW1
Specifically, the app does not display audio controls when the video plays, nor does it resume the existing audio stream (the Airplay stream) when the video finishes: "If your app doesn’t display any media playback controls that people can use to play or pause audio, your app should always resume previously playing audio when an audio interruption ends, regardless of whether the Should Resume flag is present."
I'm surprised that Apple didn't enforce this guideline when FB submitted the app.

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