How To Sync Your Facebook Friends To Your Contacts - Linking your contacts with Facebook can be helpful, but it can likewise be quite aggravating. Often, you'll discover that some didn't sync instantly, that you have actually now got replicate contacts due to the fact that the names don't rather match, or that your contacts book is overruning with the details of Facebook pals you didn't know you had.
Luckily, there is a way to by hand connect or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Likewise see: The best ways to turn off alerts in Facebook Messenger.).
How To Sync Your Facebook Friends To Your Contacts
If in your contacts book you can't see any linked Facebook contacts, you'll first need to go to the phone app, tap contacts, and then tap more. Now, click accounts, and if you've got the Facebook app set up on your smart device and are visited, you must see Facebook there as an alternative.
Tap it, then check 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 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 contact number but lots of will have e-mail 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 wish to delete a few of the contacts that are appearing, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hang on a contact you don't want to see. Then tap erase.
Ways to manually link contacts with Facebook.
Aggravatingly, however, manually merging and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been difficult considering that Android 4.0. It's not ideal, however the very best service we've discovered originates from a third-party app. There are several options, however the very best one we have actually discovered 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 smartphone. It's less choosy than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you manually choose which contacts match with which Facebook profile.
If you find that a contact is matched with the wrong profile you can simply tap on it within the Sync.Me app, tap Incorrect Profile and browse Facebook to discover the one that matches.
Any contacts that Sync.Me isn't really sure about will show on the Solve Matches page. Just tap the contact's name, and then tap the profile in the "Suggestions" area that matches, or click Facebook to manually browse your contacts and find the ideal person. This usually uses to contacts in your phonebook that you've stored with simply a very first name.
When you have actually finished, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You might discover that some contacts still haven't synced, especially if you have actually listed that contact in your phonebook with a label, or possibly simply 'Mum,' or 'Father,' for instance. Do fix 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 person's profile and by hand sync it.
Ways to erase all Facebook contacts.
If you've currently synced from Facebook using the method explained previously in this short article, you may discover that numerous Facebook contacts that you actually do not want on your phone will still be revealing up.
How To Sync Your Facebook Friends To Your Contacts, To delete them simultaneously 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 then tap Remove account.
If you ever alter your mind you can always return to this page, tap Add account and after that choose Facebook.