How To Sync Contacts From Facebook - Connecting your contacts with Facebook can be helpful, but it can likewise be rather discouraging. Typically, you'll find that some didn't sync instantly, that you've now got duplicate contacts because the names don't quite match, or that your contacts book is overruning with the information of Facebook good friends you didn't know you had.
Luckily, there is a way to manually link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we reveal you how. (Likewise see: How to change off notifications in Facebook Messenger.).
How To Sync Contacts From Facebook
If in your contacts book you can't see any connected Facebook contacts, you'll first have to go to the phone app, tap contacts, and after that tap more. Now, click accounts, and if you've got the Facebook app installed on your smartphone and are logged in, you ought to see Facebook there as a choice.
Tap it, then inspect whether you have actually turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll wish to turn it on now. It'll take a minute to sync.
Now go back to your contacts book and you'll discover lots of new contacts, all which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have phone numbers but many will have email addresses at least, and they need to also have profile images.
You ought 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 desire to erase some of the contacts that are appearing, 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 manually link contacts with Facebook.
Aggravatingly, though, by hand merging and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been difficult since Android 4.0. It's not ideal, however the finest option we have actually found comes from a third-party app. There are a number of choices, but the finest one we have actually discovered up until now that's totally free and works well is Sync.Me.
Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts currently saved on your smartphone. It's less fussy than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you manually choose which contacts match with which Facebook profile.
If you discover that a contact is matched with the wrong profile you can just tap on it within the Sync.Me app, tap Incorrect 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. Simply tap the contact's name, and then tap the profile in the "Ideas" section that matches, or click Facebook to by hand browse your contacts and discover the best person. This generally uses to contacts in your telephone directory that you've kept with simply a given name.
When you've finished, tap Done and the app will sync all your contacts.
You might find that some contacts still haven't synced, especially if you've listed that contact in your telephone directory with a nickname, or maybe just 'Mum,' or 'Daddy,' for instance. Do repair that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the pertinent contact, and after that tap the plus icon underneath Facebook. You can now discover that individual's profile and by hand sync it.
Ways to erase all Facebook contacts.
If you have actually already synced from Facebook utilizing the technique described previously in this post, you may find that numerous Facebook contacts that you in fact do not desire on your phone will still be showing up.
How To Sync Contacts From Facebook, To delete them all at when 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 Remove account.
If you ever alter your mind you can constantly go back to this page, tap Add account and then select Facebook.