How To Sync Facebook Contacts - Connecting your contacts with Facebook can be handy, but it can also be quite frustrating. Typically, you'll discover that some didn't sync instantly, that you have actually now got duplicate contacts due to the fact that the names do not quite match, or that your contacts book is overruning with the information of Facebook good friends you didn't understand you had.
Luckily, there is a method to manually connect or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we reveal you how. (Likewise see: How to turn off notifications in Facebook Messenger.).
How To Sync Facebook Contacts
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 have actually got the Facebook app set up on your smart device and are visited, you ought to see Facebook there as an alternative.
Tap it, and after that 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 return to your contacts book and you'll find great deals of brand-new contacts, all of which have been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have phone numbers however lots of will have email addresses a minimum of, and they should likewise have profile images.
You must now tap Merge duplicate 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 delete a few of the contacts that are appearing, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hold on a contact you don't wish to see. Then tap delete.
Ways to by hand link contacts with Facebook.
Aggravatingly, however, manually merging and linking your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been challenging since Android 4.0. It's not ideal, but the very best solution we've found comes from a third-party app. There are numerous choices, but the very best one we have actually found so far that's complimentary and works well is Sync.Me.
Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts currently kept on your smartphone. It's less particular than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you manually pick 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 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. Merely tap the contact's name, and then tap the profile in the "Ideas" section that matches, or click Facebook to manually browse your contacts and find the ideal individual. This normally applies to contacts in your telephone directory that you have actually saved with just a first name.
When you've ended up, tap Done and the app will sync all your contacts.
You may find that some contacts still have not synced, especially if you've listed that contact in your phonebook with a nickname, or perhaps simply 'Mum,' or 'Father,' for example. Do repair that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the pertinent contact, and then tap the plus icon beneath Facebook. You can now discover that individual's profile and by hand sync it.
How to erase all Facebook contacts.
If you have actually already synced from Facebook utilizing the technique described previously in this post, you might find that numerous Facebook contacts that you actually don't want on your phone will still be showing up.
How To Sync Facebook Contacts, To delete 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 and then tap Remove account.
If you ever alter your mind you can always return to this page, tap Include account then pick Facebook.