How to Sync Contacts to Facebook

How To Sync Contacts To Facebook - Linking your contacts with Facebook can be convenient, but it can likewise be rather aggravating. Typically, you'll discover that some didn't sync instantly, that you've now got duplicate contacts since the names don't rather match, or that your contacts book is overflowing with the information of Facebook friends you didn't know you had.

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

 

How To Sync Contacts To Facebook

If in your contacts book you cannot see any connected Facebook contacts, you'll first have to go to the phone app, tap contacts, then tap more. Now, click accounts, and if you have actually 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 after that inspect whether you've turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll wish to turn it on now. It'll take a moment to sync.

Now go back to your contacts book and you'll find lots of new contacts, all of which have been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have contact number but numerous will have email addresses a minimum of, and they must also 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 just that you desire to delete some of the contacts that are appearing, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hang on a contact you don't wish to see. Then tap erase.

Ways to manually link contacts with Facebook.

Irritatingly, however, by hand combining and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been tough because Android 4.0. It's not ideal, however the very best option we've discovered originates from a third-party app. There are numerous alternatives, but the best one we've found so far that's complimentary and works well is Sync.Me.

Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts already kept on your smart device. It's less fussy than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you manually choose which contacts match with which Facebook profile.

If you discover that a contact is matched with the wrong profile you can just tap on it within the Sync.Me app, tap Incorrect Profile and search Facebook to discover 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, and after that tap the profile in the "Recommendations" area that matches, or click Facebook to by hand search your contacts and find the right individual. This typically uses to contacts in your telephone directory that you have actually stored with simply a very first name.

When you have actually completed, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You may find that some contacts still have not synced, especially if you've listed that contact in your phonebook with a nickname, or maybe just 'Mum,' or 'Daddy,' for example. Do fix that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the pertinent contact, then tap the plus icon beneath Facebook. You can now discover that individual's profile and manually sync it.

How to erase all Facebook contacts.

If you've already synced from Facebook using the technique described previously in this article, you may discover that hundreds of Facebook contacts that you actually don't desire on your phone will still be appearing.

How To Sync Contacts To Facebook, To delete them simultaneously 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 then tap Remove account.

If you ever alter your mind you can always return to this page, tap Add account and after that pick Facebook.

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