How To Sync Contacts With Facebook - Linking your contacts with Facebook can be helpful, but it can likewise be rather discouraging. Typically, 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 buddies you didn't understand you had.
The good news is, there is a method to manually link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Likewise see: How to switch off alerts in Facebook Messenger.).
How To Sync Contacts With Facebook
If in your contacts book you cannot see any linked 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 have actually got the Facebook app set up on your mobile phone and are logged in, you need to see Facebook there as a choice.
Tap it, and after that examine whether you have actually turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll want to turn it on now. It'll take a moment to sync.
Now go back to your contacts book and you'll find lots of new contacts, all of which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have phone numbers however numerous will have e-mail addresses at least, and they must 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 delete some of the contacts that are revealing up, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hold on a contact you do not want to see. Then tap delete.
How to by hand link contacts with Facebook.
Aggravatingly, however, manually combining and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been challenging because Android 4.0. It's not perfect, but the best option we've discovered comes from a third-party app. There are a number of alternatives, however the finest one we've discovered so far that's free and works well is Sync.Me.
Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts already stored on your mobile phone. It's less fussy than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you by hand pick 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 browse Facebook to find the one that matches.
Any contacts that Sync.Me isn't sure about will show on the Solve Matches page. Just tap the contact's name, then tap the profile in the "Ideas" section that matches, or click Facebook to manually browse your contacts and discover the ideal individual. This normally applies to contacts in your phonebook that you have actually stored with just a given name.
When you have actually ended up, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You might find that some contacts still have not synced, particularly if you've listed that contact in your phone book with a nickname, or possibly simply 'Mum,' or 'Papa,' for example. Do fix that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the appropriate contact, then tap the plus icon beneath Facebook. You can now discover that person's profile and manually sync it.
Ways to delete all Facebook contacts.
If you have actually currently synced from Facebook using the method described earlier in this short article, you might discover that hundreds of Facebook contacts that you really do not want on your phone will still be showing up.
How To Sync Contacts With Facebook, To erase them at one time without eliminating 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 then tap Eliminate account.
If you ever change your mind you can always go back to this page, tap Include account and then choose Facebook.