How to Sync Facebook to Contacts
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Alfian Adi Saputra
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Friday, May 4, 2018
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Thankfully, there is a method to manually connect or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we reveal you how. (Likewise see: The best ways to turn off alerts in Facebook Messenger.).
How To Sync Facebook To Contacts
If in your contacts book you cannot see any connected Facebook contacts, you'll initially have to go to the phone app, tap contacts, then tap more. Now, click accounts, and if you have actually got the Facebook app installed on your mobile phone and are visited, you ought to see Facebook there as an alternative.
Tap it, and then inspect whether you have actually turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll want to turn it on now. It'll take a minute to sync.
Now go back to your contacts book and you'll find lots of brand-new contacts, all which have been imported from Facebook. Not all them will have contact number but many will have email addresses at least, and they need to 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 wish to delete a few of the contacts that are appearing, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hold on a contact you don't want to see. Then tap erase.
Ways to by hand link contacts with Facebook.
Irritatingly, though, by hand combining and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been difficult since Android 4.0. It's not ideal, but the finest solution we've discovered comes from a third-party app. There are several choices, but the very best one we've found so far that's totally free and works well is Sync.Me.
Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts currently stored on your smart device. It's less fussy than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you by hand select which contacts match with which Facebook profile.
If you find 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 find 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, and then tap the profile in the "Ideas" section that matches, or click Facebook to by hand browse your contacts and find the ideal person. This usually uses to contacts in your telephone directory that you've stored with just a very first name.
When you have actually ended up, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You might discover that some contacts still have not synced, particularly if you've noted that contact in your phonebook with a label, or perhaps just 'Mum,' or 'Daddy,' for example. Do fix that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the relevant contact, and then tap the plus icon below Facebook. You can now discover that individual's profile and by hand sync it.
Ways to erase all Facebook contacts.
If you have actually currently synced from Facebook using the method described previously in this article, you might find that numerous Facebook contacts that you actually don't want on your phone will still be appearing.
How To Sync Facebook To 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 go back to this page, tap Include account then choose Facebook.