How to Sync Contacts From Facebook to android Phone

How To Sync Contacts From Facebook To Android Phone - Connecting your contacts with Facebook can be convenient, however it can also be rather aggravating. Frequently, you'll discover that some didn't sync immediately, that you've now got duplicate contacts since the names don't quite match, or that your contacts book is overflowing with the details of Facebook good friends you didn't understand you had.

Thankfully, there is a way to by hand link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Likewise see: How to turn off notifications in Facebook Messenger.).

How To Sync Contacts From Facebook To Android Phone


If in your contacts book you can't see any connected Facebook contacts, you'll initially require 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 smartphone and are logged in, you must see Facebook there as a choice.

Tap it, then check whether you have actually turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll wish to turn it on now. It'll take a moment to sync.

Now return to your contacts book and you'll find lots of brand-new contacts, all which have been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have telephone number however numerous will have e-mail addresses a minimum of, and they ought to likewise have profile images.

You need to 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 just that you wish 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 want to see. Then tap delete.

Ways to by hand connect contacts with Facebook.

Aggravatingly, however, manually combining and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been hard because Android 4.0. It's not ideal, however the finest service we've found comes from a third-party app. There are numerous alternatives, but the best one we have actually discovered up until now that's complimentary and works well is Sync.Me.

Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts currently stored 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 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. Simply tap the contact's name, and after that tap the profile in the "Ideas" section that matches, or click Facebook to by hand browse your contacts and find the best person. This normally applies to contacts in your telephone directory that you have actually stored with simply a given name.

When you've finished, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You may find that some contacts still haven't synced, especially if you have actually noted 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 appropriate contact, then tap the plus icon beneath Facebook. You can now discover 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 method described earlier in this short article, you might find that hundreds of Facebook contacts that you really do not desire on your phone will still be showing up.

How To Sync Contacts From Facebook To Android Phone, To erase 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 then tap Remove account.

If you ever alter your mind you can always go back to this page, tap Add account then pick Facebook.