Michal Marek About two weeks ago, a new version of the operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, this time with the name iOS 6, reached ordinary users. This mobile system brought many innovations, some of which also had an impact on the operating system OS X for computers with the bite symbol apples. Recently, Apple has been trying to bring its two systems as close as possible, and iOS and OS X are getting more and more common characters, applications and synchronization options. One of the new features that OS X users have recently received is the integration of the world's most popular social network, Facebook.
This system-wide integration is available in both iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.2. In the following lines, we will show you how to set up the aforementioned integration correctly, where it manifests itself everywhere, and how we can use it to our advantage and facilitate "social" life.
Settings
First you need to launch System Preferences and then open the option Mail, contacts, calendars. In the left part of the window that appears, there is a list of accounts you use (iCloud, Gmail,...) and in the right part, on the contrary, a list of services and accounts that can be added and used. Facebook can now also be found in this list. To add an account, simply log in using the name and password you normally use to use this social service.
When you successfully sign in and add Facebook to your accounts, the Contacts checkbox will appear. If you check this option, your Facebook friends will also appear in your contacts list, and your calendar will also show you their birthdays. The downside is that you also get an e-mail with a domain added to each contact facebook.com which is practically of no use to you and only fills your contact list with unnecessary data. Fortunately, the function can be turned off in the settings both in Contacts and in Calendar.
Where Facebook integration comes into play:
In addition to accessing contacts from Facebook, the integration of this social network is of course manifested in other and more significant ways. Let's start with the notification bar. In Preferences, this time in the Notifications section, you can choose whether you want to have sharing buttons in your notification bar. If you decide to do so, you can very easily and quickly post one post after another on Facebook without having to turn on the web interface or any application. A sound signal will always confirm the successful sending of a post to Facebook.
In this notification center, which is also new to OS X Mountain Lion by the way, you can also set notifications for new messages. The way these notifications will work can be set individually again, which you can also see in the image below.
Perhaps the most essential element of social network integration is the ubiquitous possibility of sharing practically anything. A prime example is the Safari internet browser. Here, just press the share icon and then select Facebook.
Facebook chat in News
However, it is surprising that it is not possible to integrate, for example, Facebook chat into the message application just as easily. Instead, the absence must be bypassed via the Jabber protocol that Facebook chat uses. Open Preferences in the Messages app, select the Accounts tab and press the "+" button below the list on the left. Select Jabber from the services menu. Enter as username username@chat.facebook.com (You can find your username by looking at your Facebook profile address, for example facebook.com/username) and password will be your login password.
Next, fill in the server options. To the field Server & Hosting fill in chat.facebook.com and into the field Port (The Harbour District) 5222. Leave both check boxes unchecked. Press the button Done. Now your friends will appear in your contact list.
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Thanks for the tutorial with Facebook chat :)
Great thing, but iMessaging couldn't connect to FB. Everything according to the instructions, but the password or name is incorrect :(
Same problem as Dan
Unfortunately, I have exactly the same problem with the password :(
It must be as a login name for FB neco@chat.facebook.com, then it will work. See https://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php
Exactly, thanks, fixed.
I only have two problems with the Facebook integration on OS X: 1) Why can't the FB calendar be synced as well as the contacts? It's pointless, considering it works flawlessly on iOS6. 2) The system will not remember the name linking between FB and your contacts if the FB name is different from the real one. One then has to manually connect all contacts on all devices. In general, I like Apple's strategy "everything I have on my computer is automatically in the same form on my mobile, tablet,...", but they should finish these things.
I only have two problems with the Facebook integration on OS X: 1) Why can't the FB calendar be synced as well as the contacts? It's pointless, considering it works flawlessly on iOS6. 2) The system will not remember the name linking between FB and your contacts if the FB name is different from the real one. One then has to manually connect all contacts on all devices. In general, I like Apple's strategy "everything I have on my computer is automatically in the same form on my mobile, tablet,...", but they should finish these things.
I just have one question for the crowd. If I understood correctly, during the first Keynote where iOS6 was presented, it was said that Apple improved a kind of mutual "synchronization" of all iOS devices and MACs in the sense that if I receive an iMessage on an iPhone, it will also appear on, for example, an iPad (MAC), but after the responses are "lost" on other devices, the notification I thought that something similar would also work for applications such as Facebook. Unfortunately, I don't have such experience yet. Does anyone have any advice or similar experience?
Well, we'll have to hope that Apple will continue to work on Facebook integration and bring us native chat for iOS and OSX in future updates. I was actually kind of expecting it when Facebook still hasn't released Messanger for the iPad, but now I'm losing hope again since they've updated it, unfortunately without an iPad version.
ad interdependence, can it be set so that contact photos are somehow synced to the calendar?
I wanted to ask how should I create two accounts for Facebook on the iPad? Just go to Face so that it offers me two options, two profiles for logging in?