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iOS 6 to feature system-wide Facebook integration, including ‘Liking’ App Store apps

“We heard many weeks ago that Apple and Facebook engineers were working in collaboration on implementing some sort of integration of Facebook into iOS 6,” Mark Gurman reports for 9to5Mac. “Simultaneously, Apple and Facebook executives were discussing the terms of the deal and exactly how Facebook would be integrated into iOS 6.”

“According to sources familiar with the Facebook integration into iOS 6, the integration will be very similar to Twitter’s integration that launched with iOS 5,” Gurman reports. “The integration’s biggest presence will be in the iOS Photos application. Like you are able to send photos to Twitter from the Photos application, you will be able to post photos to Facebook.”

Gurman reports, “Besides content sharing, Apple is also relying on Facebook for a big new social change for the built-in App Store: a feature called ‘App Liking.'”

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