How to Sync Your Facebook Friends to Your Contacts
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Alfian Adi Saputra
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
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Thankfully, there is a way to manually link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Also see: How to turn off notices in Facebook Messenger.).
How To Sync Your Facebook Friends To Your Contacts
If in your contacts book you cannot see any linked 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 smart device and are logged in, you need to see Facebook there as a choice.
Tap it, then inspect 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 discover lots of brand-new contacts, all which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have phone numbers however lots of will have email addresses a minimum of, and they should 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 erase 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.
How to by hand connect contacts with Facebook.
Irritatingly, though, by hand combining and linking your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been challenging given that Android 4.0. It's not ideal, however the very best solution we have actually discovered comes from a third-party app. There are a number of choices, however the very best one we've discovered up until now that's free and works well is Sync.Me.
Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts already saved on your mobile phone. It's less picky than the built-in Facebook sync tool, and lets you by hand 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 Incorrect 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. Just tap the contact's name, and then tap the profile in the "Tips" section that matches, or click Facebook to manually browse your contacts and find the ideal individual. This normally applies to contacts in your telephone directory that you've kept with just a given name.
When you have actually finished, tap Done and the app will sync all your contacts.
You may find that some contacts still haven't synced, especially if you've noted that contact in your telephone directory with a label, or perhaps simply 'Mum,' or 'Daddy,' for instance. Do repair that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the appropriate contact, then tap the plus icon beneath Facebook. You can now discover that person's profile and by hand sync it.
The best ways to erase all Facebook contacts.
If you've currently synced from Facebook utilizing the method explained previously in this post, you may discover that hundreds of Facebook contacts that you actually don't desire on your phone will still be showing up.
How To Sync Your Facebook Friends To Your Contacts, To erase them simultaneously 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 change your mind you can always return to this page, tap Add account and after that choose Facebook.