How to Sync Facebook Contacts to Galaxy S3
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Friday, May 25, 2018
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Fortunately, there is a way to manually connect or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Also see: How to change off notifications in Facebook Messenger.).
How To Sync Facebook Contacts To Galaxy S3
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've got the Facebook app set up on your smartphone and are visited, you must see Facebook there as an option.
Tap it, then check whether you've turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll desire to turn it on now. It'll take a minute to sync.
Now go back to your contacts book and you'll discover lots of brand-new contacts, all which have been imported from Facebook. Not all them will have telephone number however many will have email addresses a minimum of, and they should likewise have profile images.
You need 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 wish 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 delete.
The best ways to by hand connect contacts with Facebook.
Aggravatingly, however, manually merging and linking your contacts with their Facebook profiles has actually been difficult considering that Android 4.0. It's not perfect, but the very best service we've discovered comes from a third-party app. There are numerous choices, however the best one we've found up until now that's free and works well is Sync.Me.
Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts currently stored on your smartphone. It's less picky than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you by hand choose 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 Incorrect 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. Just tap the contact's name, then tap the profile in the "Tips" section that matches, or click Facebook to manually search your contacts and find the ideal individual. This generally applies to contacts in your phonebook that you've stored with simply a given name.
When you have actually finished, tap Done and the app will sync all your contacts.
You might discover that some contacts still have not synced, particularly if you have actually noted that contact in your phone book with a nickname, or perhaps simply 'Mum,' or 'Father,' for instance. Do fix that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the appropriate contact, and then tap the plus icon underneath Facebook. You can now discover that person's profile and by hand sync it.
Ways to erase all Facebook contacts.
If you've currently synced from Facebook utilizing the technique described earlier in this short article, you might discover that hundreds of Facebook contacts that you in fact do not desire on your phone will still be appearing.
How To Sync Facebook Contacts To Galaxy S3, To delete them all at as soon as 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 Get rid of account.
If you ever change your mind you can constantly return to this page, tap Include account and then choose Facebook.