Facebook Contacts Sync

Facebook Contacts Sync - Linking your contacts with Facebook can be helpful, but it can likewise be quite discouraging. Often, you'll find that some didn't sync automatically, that you've now got replicate contacts because the names do not quite match, or that your contacts book is overruning with the information of Facebook pals you didn't understand you had.

Luckily, there is a way to manually connect or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Likewise see: How to change off notifications in Facebook Messenger.).

Facebook Contacts Sync


If in your contacts book you can't see any linked 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've got the Facebook app set up on your mobile phone and are visited, you need to see Facebook there as a choice.

Tap it, and after that 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 return to your contacts book and you'll find lots of new contacts, all which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have contact number but many will have email addresses a minimum of, and they should likewise have profile images.

You ought 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 simply that you want to erase some of the contacts that are revealing up, 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.

Irritatingly, though, manually merging and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been challenging considering that Android 4.0. It's not ideal, but the best service we have actually discovered originates from a third-party app. There are a number of options, however the best one we've discovered so far that's complimentary and works well is Sync.Me.

Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts already saved on your smart device. It's less fussy than the built-in 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 incorrect profile you can simply 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 reveal 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 search your contacts and find the right person. This usually applies to contacts in your phone book that you have actually saved with just a very first name.

When you have actually ended up, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You may discover that some contacts still have not synced, particularly if you've listed that contact in your phonebook with a nickname, or possibly just '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 below Facebook. You can now find that individual's profile and by hand sync it.

Ways to erase all Facebook contacts.

If you have actually already synced from Facebook utilizing the technique described earlier in this short article, you may find that hundreds of Facebook contacts that you really don't desire on your phone will still be appearing.

Facebook Contacts Sync, To erase them all at once 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 after that tap Eliminate account.

If you ever alter your mind you can constantly go back to this page, tap Add account and after that select Facebook.