Sync Contacts with Facebook

Sync Contacts With Facebook - Linking your contacts with Facebook can be helpful, but it can likewise be rather discouraging. Frequently, you'll find that some didn't sync automatically, that you have actually now got duplicate contacts since the names don't rather match, or that your contacts book is overruning with the details of Facebook good friends you didn't understand you had.

Thankfully, there is a way to manually link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Likewise see: How to switch off alerts in Facebook Messenger.).

 

Sync Contacts With Facebook

If in your contacts book you cannot see any connected Facebook contacts, you'll first need to go to the phone app, tap contacts, and after that tap more. Now, click accounts, and if you have actually got the Facebook app installed on your smartphone and are logged in, you need to see Facebook there as a choice.

Tap it, then inspect whether you have actually 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 find great deals of brand-new contacts, all of which have been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have contact number but numerous will have e-mail addresses a minimum of, and they ought to 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 wish to delete a few of the contacts that are revealing up, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hold on a contact you don't desire to see. Then tap delete.

How to manually link contacts with Facebook.

Irritatingly, however, by hand combining and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been hard considering that Android 4.0. It's not perfect, however the very best service we've found comes from a third-party app. There are numerous alternatives, 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 currently saved on your smart device. It's less particular 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 wrong profile you can merely tap on it within the Sync.Me app, tap Incorrect Profile and browse Facebook to find the one that matches.

Any contacts that Sync.Me isn't sure about will show on the Solve Matches page. Merely tap the contact's name, then tap the profile in the "Tips" area that matches, or click Facebook to by hand search your contacts and discover the right person. This generally uses to contacts in your phonebook that you've stored with simply a given name.

When you have actually completed, tap Done and the app will sync all your contacts.
You might find that some contacts still haven't synced, especially if you have actually listed that contact in your phone book with a label, or possibly merely 'Mum,' or 'Dad,' for example. Do fix that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the pertinent contact, and then tap the plus icon underneath Facebook. You can now discover that person's profile and manually sync it.

How to delete all Facebook contacts.

If you've already synced from Facebook utilizing the method explained earlier in this short article, you may find that numerous Facebook contacts that you actually do not desire on your phone will still be appearing.

Sync Contacts With Facebook, 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 after that tap Remove account.

If you ever alter your mind you can constantly go back to this page, tap Include account and after that pick Facebook.

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