How To Sync Facebook Contacts With Android - Connecting your contacts with Facebook can be helpful, however it can also be quite frustrating. Typically, you'll discover that some didn't sync immediately, 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 overruning with the information of Facebook friends you didn't understand you had.
The good news is, there is a way to by hand connect or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Also see: How to turn off alerts in Facebook Messenger.).
How To Sync Facebook Contacts With Android
If in your contacts book you can't see any connected Facebook contacts, you'll initially require to go to the phone app, tap contacts, and after that tap more. Now, click accounts, and if you've got the Facebook app set up on your smartphone and are logged in, you ought to see Facebook there as an option.
Tap it, then inspect whether you've turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll wish to turn it on now. It'll take a minute to sync.
Now return to your contacts book and you'll discover lots of brand-new contacts, all of which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have telephone number however numerous will have email addresses a minimum of, and they should also have profile images.
You need to 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 just that you wish to erase some of the contacts that are appearing, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hang on a contact you do not wish to see. Then tap erase.
Ways to by hand connect contacts with Facebook.
Irritatingly, though, by hand merging and linking your contacts with their Facebook profiles has actually been difficult considering that Android 4.0. It's not ideal, but the best solution we have actually found comes from a third-party app. There are numerous options, however the very best one we have actually found so far that's totally free and works well is Sync.Me.
Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts currently saved on your mobile phone. It's less choosy than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you manually select which contacts match with which Facebook profile.
If you find that a contact is matched with the incorrect profile you can simply tap on it within the Sync.Me app, tap Wrong Profile and search Facebook to discover the one that matches.
Any contacts that Sync.Me isn't really sure about will reveal on the Solve Matches page. Simply tap the contact's name, and after that tap the profile in the "Recommendations" area that matches, or click Facebook to manually browse your contacts and find the right individual. This generally uses to contacts in your phone book that you have actually stored with simply a given name.
When you've ended up, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You may find that some contacts still have not synced, particularly if you have actually noted that contact in your telephone directory with a nickname, or perhaps merely 'Mum,' or 'Daddy,' for instance. Do fix that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the appropriate contact, then tap the plus icon below Facebook. You can now discover that individual's profile and manually sync it.
Ways to delete all Facebook contacts.
If you have actually currently synced from Facebook using the technique explained earlier in this article, you might find that numerous Facebook contacts that you actually do not desire on your phone will still be showing up.
How To Sync Facebook Contacts With Android, To erase them simultaneously without getting rid of the Sync.Me contacts and the contacts you have actually imported from other accounts, go to Contacts, tap Menu, then tap Accounts. There, tap on Facebook then tap Get rid of account.
If you ever alter your mind you can constantly return to this page, tap Add account and after that pick Facebook.