Facebook Contact Sync for android
By
pusahma dua
—
Monday, June 4, 2018
—
Sync Contact
The good news is, there is a method to by hand connect or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we reveal you how. (Also see: How to turn off alerts in Facebook Messenger.).
Facebook Contact Sync For Android
If in your contacts book you cannot see any connected Facebook contacts, you'll first need 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 logged in, you must see Facebook there as a choice.
Tap it, then check 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 brand-new contacts, all of which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all them will have phone numbers but numerous will have e-mail addresses a minimum of, and they ought to also 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 simply that you want to erase a few of the contacts that are showing up, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hold on a contact you do not want to see. Then tap delete.
The best ways to manually connect contacts with Facebook.
Annoyingly, however, manually merging and linking your contacts with their Facebook profiles has actually been tough considering that Android 4.0. It's not ideal, however the best solution we've found originates from a third-party app. There are a number of choices, but the finest 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 already stored on your smart device. It's less picky than the built-in 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 wrong profile you can simply tap on it within the Sync.Me app, tap Wrong Profile and browse 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, and after that tap the profile in the "Ideas" section that matches, or click Facebook to manually browse your contacts and find the best person. This generally uses to contacts in your phonebook that you have actually stored with simply a first name.
When you have actually ended up, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You might find that some contacts still haven't synced, particularly if you have actually noted that contact in your phonebook with a label, or perhaps just 'Mum,' or 'Dad,' for example. Do fix that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the relevant contact, then tap the plus icon below Facebook. You can now find that person's profile and manually sync it.
Ways to delete all Facebook contacts.
If you have actually currently synced from Facebook utilizing the method explained previously in this article, you might find that numerous Facebook contacts that you really do not desire on your phone will still be showing up.
Facebook Contact Sync For Android, To erase them simultaneously 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 then tap Get rid of account.
If you ever alter your mind you can always go back to this page, tap Add account and after that select Facebook.