How To Sync Contacts From Facebook To Android Phone - Linking your contacts with Facebook can be handy, but it can also be quite aggravating. Often, you'll find that some didn't sync automatically, that you have actually now got duplicate contacts due to the fact that the names do not rather match, or that your contacts book is overflowing with the details of Facebook friends you didn't know you had.
Fortunately, there is a method to manually link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we reveal you how. (Also see: How to turn off alerts in Facebook Messenger.).
How To Sync Contacts From Facebook To Android Phone
If in your contacts book you cannot see any connected Facebook contacts, you'll initially have to go to the phone app, tap contacts, and after that tap more. Now, click accounts, and if you have actually got the Facebook app set up on your mobile phone and are visited, you need to see Facebook there as a choice.
Tap it, then inspect whether you've turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll want to turn it on now. It'll take a moment to sync.
Now return to your contacts book and you'll find great deals of brand-new contacts, all which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all them will have contact number but numerous will have email addresses at least, and they should likewise have profile images.
You must now tap Merge replicate contacts in the Phone app's Settings menu to clean your contacts book up a bit.
Still not working? If it's simply that you desire to erase a few of the contacts that are showing up, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hang on a contact you don't wish to see. Then tap delete.
The best ways to by hand connect contacts with Facebook.
Aggravatingly, though, by hand merging and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has actually been difficult because Android 4.0. It's not ideal, however the very best option we have actually found comes from a third-party app. There are a number of choices, but the very best one we have actually discovered up until now that's complimentary and works well is Sync.Me.
Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts already saved on your mobile phone. It's less choosy than the built-in Facebook sync tool, and lets you manually pick which contacts match with which Facebook profile.
If you discover that a contact is matched with the incorrect profile you can just tap on it within the Sync.Me app, tap Wrong Profile and search Facebook to find the one that matches.
Any contacts that Sync.Me isn't sure about will show on the Solve Matches page. Merely tap the contact's name, then tap the profile in the "Suggestions" section that matches, or click Facebook to manually browse your contacts and discover the ideal individual. This normally applies to contacts in your phone book that you've saved with simply a given name.
When you have actually completed, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You may discover that some contacts still have not synced, particularly if you have actually listed that contact in your phonebook with a nickname, or perhaps simply 'Mum,' or 'Father,' for instance. Do repair that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the pertinent contact, and after that tap the plus icon below Facebook. You can now discover that person's profile and by hand sync it.
How to delete all Facebook contacts.
If you've currently synced from Facebook using the approach explained earlier in this short article, you may discover that numerous Facebook contacts that you actually do not desire on your phone will still be appearing.
How To Sync Contacts From Facebook To Android Phone, To erase them all at as soon as without getting rid of the Sync.Me contacts and the contacts you've imported from other accounts, go to Contacts, tap Menu, then tap Accounts. There, tap on Facebook and then tap Remove account.
If you ever alter your mind you can constantly return to this page, tap Add account and after that choose Facebook.