How To Sync Facebook With Contacts - Linking your contacts with Facebook can be convenient, however it can likewise be rather frustrating. Frequently, you'll find that some didn't sync immediately, that you have actually now got duplicate contacts since the names do not rather match, or that your contacts book is overflowing with the information of Facebook good friends you didn't understand you had.
Luckily, there is a way to manually link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we reveal you how. (Also see: How to change off alerts in Facebook Messenger.).
How To Sync Facebook With Contacts
If in your contacts book you cannot see any linked Facebook contacts, you'll initially 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 installed on your smartphone and are visited, you ought to see Facebook there as an option.
Tap it, and after that check whether you've 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 great deals of brand-new contacts, all of which have been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have telephone number however many will have email addresses a minimum of, and they ought to likewise have profile images.
You must 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 simply that you desire to erase some of the contacts that are showing up, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hang on a contact you don't desire to see. Then tap erase.
Ways to by hand connect contacts with Facebook.
Annoyingly, though, by hand combining and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been tough because Android 4.0. It's not ideal, but the very best option we have actually found comes from a third-party app. There are a number of alternatives, however the finest one we have actually found up until now that's free and works well is Sync.Me.
Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts already stored on your smartphone. It's less picky than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you manually pick which contacts match with which Facebook profile.
If you discover that a contact is matched with the incorrect profile you can merely tap on it within the Sync.Me app, tap Wrong 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. Simply tap the contact's name, then tap the profile in the "Ideas" section that matches, or click Facebook to by hand search your contacts and find the best person. This generally uses to contacts in your phone book that you have actually saved with just a first 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 haven't synced, particularly if you've noted that contact in your telephone directory with a label, or possibly simply 'Mum,' or 'Daddy,' for example. Do fix 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 manually sync it.
How to delete all Facebook contacts.
If you've already synced from Facebook using the approach described earlier in this post, you might discover that numerous Facebook contacts that you really don't desire on your phone will still be appearing.
How To Sync Facebook With Contacts, To erase them simultaneously without eliminating 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 Include account and then select Facebook.