Sync Facebook Contacts with android

Sync Facebook Contacts With Android - Connecting your contacts with Facebook can be convenient, but it can likewise be quite aggravating. Typically, you'll find that some didn't sync automatically, that you have actually now got duplicate contacts since the names don't quite match, or that your contacts book is overflowing with the details of Facebook friends you didn't understand you had.

Thankfully, there is a method to by hand link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we reveal you how. (Likewise see: The best ways to turn off notifications in Facebook Messenger.).

 

Sync Facebook Contacts With Android

If in your contacts book you cannot see any connected Facebook contacts, you'll first have to go to the phone app, tap contacts, then tap more. Now, click accounts, and if you have actually got the Facebook app set up on your smartphone and are visited, you must see Facebook there as an alternative.

Tap it, and after that examine whether you have actually turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll wish to turn it on now. It'll take a moment to sync.

Now return to your contacts book and you'll discover great deals of new contacts, all which have been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have phone numbers but numerous will have email addresses a minimum of, and they ought to also have profile images.

You should 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 erase some of the contacts that are appearing, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hang on a contact you don't desire to see. Then tap erase.

Ways to by hand link contacts with Facebook.

Irritatingly, however, manually merging and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been difficult since Android 4.0. It's not perfect, but the best solution we have actually discovered originates from a third-party app. There are numerous options, but the 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 kept on your mobile phone. It's less choosy than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you manually pick 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 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, and then tap the profile in the "Ideas" section that matches, or click Facebook to by hand search your contacts and find the ideal person. This typically applies to contacts in your phonebook that you've stored with just a given name.

When you have actually finished, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You may discover that some contacts still haven't synced, especially if you have actually noted that contact in your telephone directory with a nickname, or maybe simply 'Mum,' or 'Dad,' for instance. Do fix that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the appropriate contact, then tap the plus icon beneath Facebook. You can now find that person's profile and by hand sync it.

Ways to delete all Facebook contacts.

If you have actually already synced from Facebook utilizing the approach explained previously in this post, you may discover that numerous Facebook contacts that you really don't want on your phone will still be showing up.

Sync Facebook Contacts With Android, To erase them all at once without getting rid of 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 Get rid of account.

If you ever change your mind you can always return to this page, tap Include account then pick Facebook.

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