How to Sync Contacts with Facebook

How To Sync Contacts With Facebook - Linking your contacts with Facebook can be useful, but it can likewise be quite aggravating. Often, you'll find that some didn't sync automatically, that you have actually now got duplicate contacts because the names do not quite match, or that your contacts book is overflowing with the information of Facebook pals you didn't understand 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: Ways to switch off notifications in Facebook Messenger.).

How To Sync Contacts With Facebook


If in your contacts book you can't see any connected Facebook contacts, you'll first need to go to the phone app, tap contacts, and then tap more. Now, click accounts, and if you have actually got the Facebook app set up on your smart device 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 wish to turn it on now. It'll take a minute to sync.

Now return to your contacts book and you'll find lots of new contacts, all which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all them will have telephone number however lots of will have email addresses at least, and they should likewise have profile images.

You should 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 some of the contacts that are appearing, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hold on a contact you do not wish to see. Then tap delete.

The best ways to by hand connect contacts with Facebook.

Aggravatingly, though, manually merging and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been challenging because Android 4.0. It's not ideal, but the best service we've found originates from a third-party app. There are a number of alternatives, however the best one we've discovered so far that's totally 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 particular than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you by hand pick which contacts match with which Facebook profile.

If you find that a contact is matched with the wrong profile you can merely tap on it within the Sync.Me app, tap Wrong Profile and search Facebook to discover the one that matches.

Any contacts that Sync.Me isn't really sure about will reveal on the Solve Matches page. Merely tap the contact's name, then tap the profile in the "Recommendations" section that matches, or click Facebook to manually search your contacts and discover the right person. This usually applies to contacts in your phonebook that you have actually kept with simply a very first name.

When you have actually completed, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You may discover that some contacts still have not synced, especially if you have actually noted that contact in your phone book with a nickname, or maybe merely 'Mum,' or 'Dad,' for example. Do repair that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the relevant contact, then tap the plus icon below Facebook. You can now discover that individual's profile and manually sync it.

The best ways to delete all Facebook contacts.

If you've currently synced from Facebook using the approach explained previously in this article, you might discover that numerous Facebook contacts that you in fact do not desire on your phone will still be showing up.

How To Sync Contacts With Facebook, To delete 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 and after that tap Eliminate account.

If you ever alter your mind you can always return to this page, tap Add account then choose Facebook.