How to Sync Facebook Contacts

How To Sync Facebook Contacts - Connecting your contacts with Facebook can be helpful, however it can likewise be quite aggravating. Often, you'll discover that some didn't sync immediately, that you've now got replicate contacts due to the fact that the names do not rather match, or that your contacts book is overflowing with the information of Facebook friends you didn't know you had.

Luckily, there is a method to by hand connect or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Also see: The best ways to switch off notifications in Facebook Messenger.).

 

How To Sync Facebook Contacts

If in your contacts book you cannot see any linked 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 installed on your smart device and are visited, you ought to see Facebook there as an alternative.

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 brand-new contacts, all of which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have telephone number however numerous will have e-mail addresses at least, and they must also have profile images.

You must 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 desire to delete some of the contacts that are revealing up, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hold on a contact you don't want to see. Then tap delete.

The best ways to manually link contacts with Facebook.

Annoyingly, however, by hand merging and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has actually been tough since Android 4.0. It's not ideal, but the best solution we've discovered originates from a third-party app. There are numerous options, however the very best one we have actually found up until now that's totally free and works well is Sync.Me.

Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts currently kept on your smart device. It's less picky than the built-in Facebook sync tool, and lets you by hand select 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 Wrong Profile and search Facebook to discover the one that matches.

Any contacts that Sync.Me isn't really sure about will show on the Solve Matches page. Simply tap the contact's name, then 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 phonebook that you've saved with simply a first name.

When you have actually ended up, 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 telephone directory with a nickname, or possibly merely 'Mum,' or 'Papa,' for example. Do repair that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the appropriate contact, and then tap the plus icon below Facebook. You can now find that person's profile and by hand sync it.

The best ways to delete all Facebook contacts.

If you've currently synced from Facebook utilizing the technique described earlier in this article, you might discover that hundreds of Facebook contacts that you really don't desire on your phone will still be appearing.

How To Sync Facebook Contacts, To delete them at one time without getting rid of 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 constantly return to this page, tap Add account and after that choose Facebook.

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