Sony Removes PS4 Facebook Integration

The increased connection of social media to everything can be seen either as a pleasant or scary thought. With gaming becoming more centered on social media Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have made it easy to share your gaming activities find your friends on social media. But in a surprising announcement, Sony has cut off support between Facebook and the PS4.

Sony stated in an update:

Starting on October 7th, 2019 Facebook integration will no longer be supported on the PS4 system. This includes Facebook’s share features such as posting gameplay and trophy activity and using the friend finder feature. We apologize for any inconvenience.

PlayStation®4’s share features will remain the same, except Facebook will no longer be offered as a destination to share screenshots, videos, music, trophy details, or links to gameplay broadcasts.

Users will no longer have the ability to link their Facebook account to their PlayStation™Network account. This means Friends List features, such as adding friends from Facebook will be removed. 

Profile pictures imported from Facebook will no longer be used.  We recommend selecting a new picture for PlayStation® friends to identify you.  There are multiple options for changing your profile picture on PS4™ to an Avatar or image of your choosing. 

On PS4™, go to [Settings] > [Account Management] > [Account Information] > [Profile] > [Profile Picture]

Alternatively on PS4™, you can select your Profile from the Function area. Click on the [...] button to the right of [Set Online Status]. Then [Edit Profile] >  [Profile Picture]

You can also upload an image in the PlayStation® App from your mobile device 

This seems very sudden but it's likely that Sony is limiting access to their customer's information to Facebook. It could also be a deal that fell through and could reflect Sony's choices on what applications will be available on their next console.

Adam Siddiqui,
Senior Editor, NoobFeed
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