facebook integration
Keep in touch with your Facebook contacts
macOS Sierra makes it easy to share pics or web pages on social media sites
macOS Sierra integrates well with social networks, making it easy to share pictures or web pages via Flickr or Vimeo, post to Twitter and more.
Here we’ll focus on Facebook, but the principles are the same for the other supported social networks.
Once you have Facebook configured, you can send things to it from a range of apps. Your Facebook friends are added to Contacts, complete with profile photos. Any changes they make to their details on Facebook are updated automatically in the Contacts app.
Facebook notifications come straight to Notification Center. You can post to Facebook without needing to sign in through a browser, because you’re already signed in with your Mac’s OS. You can share photos, web pages and all kinds of other content directly from the Share button, which appears in a wide range of apps; simply select Facebook from the list, add a note, click Post and it’s done.
Once you sign into Facebook in macOS Sierra, you can connect and share with friends directly from your desktop. If Location Services is switched on on your Mac and you’ve given Facebook access to it, you can share your location with your Facebook posts by clicking the location indicator at the foot of the Facebook Share Sheet.
You can choose to share each post with a different group, rather than all your Friends, by selecting a group from the drop-down list at the top left of the Facebook Share Sheet.
If you opt to share a photo to Facebook, you can choose which album to put it in. This option appears as a drop-down list at the top right corner of the Facebook Share Sheet; or you can simply add it to your Timeline.
In these guides, we’ll explain how to link your Facebook account to macOS Sierra then show you some of the options this gives you in a range of different apps.