Facebook Sync Contacts

Facebook Sync Contacts - Connecting your contacts with Facebook can be useful, but it can also be quite discouraging. Typically, you'll find that some didn't sync immediately, that you have actually now got replicate contacts due to the fact that the names do not quite match, or that your contacts book is overruning with the information of Facebook pals you didn't know you had.

The good news is, there is a way to manually link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we reveal you how. (Also see: The best ways to turn off notifications in Facebook Messenger.).

 

Facebook Sync Contacts

If in your contacts book you cannot 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've got the Facebook app set up on your mobile phone and are logged in, you ought to see Facebook there as an option.

Tap it, and then inspect whether you've turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll desire to turn it on now. It'll take a moment to sync.

Now return to your contacts book and you'll find great deals of new contacts, all which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all them will have phone numbers however numerous will have email addresses at least, and they ought to also have profile images.

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

How to by hand link contacts with Facebook.

Annoyingly, however, manually merging and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been hard because Android 4.0. It's not ideal, however the very best option we have actually found comes from a third-party app. There are several options, but the best one we have actually discovered up until now that's free and works well is Sync.Me.

Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts currently saved on your smart device. 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 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 search Facebook to find the one that matches.

Any contacts that Sync.Me isn't 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 by hand browse your contacts and discover the best person. This typically uses to contacts in your phone book that you have actually saved 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, particularly if you've listed that contact in your telephone directory with a label, or maybe just 'Mum,' or 'Papa,' for example. Do fix that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the appropriate contact, and then tap the plus icon beneath Facebook. You can now find that individual's profile and manually sync it.

How to delete all Facebook contacts.

If you have actually currently synced from Facebook utilizing the method described previously in this article, you may find that hundreds of Facebook contacts that you in fact don't want on your phone will still be appearing.

Facebook Sync Contacts, To erase them all at as soon as 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 and then tap Remove account.

If you ever alter your mind you can constantly return to this page, tap Include account and after that choose Facebook.

Tweet