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Title: Twitter and Facebook are no longer integrated in iOS 11
Post by: HCK on September 21, 2017, 04:05:18 pm
Twitter and Facebook are no longer integrated in iOS 11

Previous versions of Apple's iPhone and iPad operating system integrated single sign-on Facebook and Twitter into the system. In iOS 11, they're back to being extensions.

With the iOS 11 update on iPhone and iPad, social network services, like Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, and Flickr, which used to have single sign-on for systemwide integration have been removed. Instead, these services are treated the same as other apps. You'll have to give permission within apps using the standard extensions that other apps use.

In iOS 10 and older (back to iOS 8), users could sign into Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, and Flickr from the Settings app on iPhone and iPad. This would make it easier to add additional content, like contacts, events, and more, directly to Apple's built-in apps, like Contacts, Calendar, Photos, and others. Additionally, apps that requested access to those social services could integrate with just a quick permission from you.

In iOS 11, Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, and Flickr are tr...

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