How Do You Sync Contacts with Facebook

How Do You Sync Contacts With Facebook - Connecting your contacts with Facebook can be helpful, however it can also be rather frustrating. Frequently, you'll find that some didn't sync instantly, that you've now got duplicate contacts because the names do not quite match, or that your contacts book is overflowing with the information of Facebook pals you didn't understand you had.

Fortunately, there is a method to manually link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Likewise see: How to change off notices in Facebook Messenger.).

 

How Do You Sync Contacts With Facebook

If in your contacts book you can't 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've got the Facebook app set up on your smartphone and are visited, you must see Facebook there as an option.

Tap it, then examine whether you have actually turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll desire 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 which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have telephone number however lots of will have e-mail addresses a minimum of, and they need to 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 simply that you desire to delete some of the contacts that are appearing, 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 by hand link contacts with Facebook.

Irritatingly, however, manually merging and linking your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been difficult since Android 4.0. It's not perfect, however the very best option we have actually found comes from a third-party app. There are numerous choices, but the best one we have actually found so far that's free and works well is Sync.Me.

Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts already stored on your smartphone. It's less picky than the built-in 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 incorrect profile you can merely 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. Simply tap the contact's name, and after that tap the profile in the "Suggestions" area that matches, or click Facebook to manually search your contacts and discover the ideal person. This typically uses to contacts in your phonebook that you've stored with simply a given name.

When you have actually ended up, tap Done and the app will sync all your contacts.
You might find that some contacts still have not synced, especially if you have actually noted that contact in your phonebook with a nickname, or perhaps merely 'Mum,' or 'Daddy,' for instance. Do repair that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the appropriate contact, then tap the plus icon beneath Facebook. You can now find that individual's profile and manually sync it.

Ways to erase all Facebook contacts.

If you've already synced from Facebook using the technique described previously in this short article, you may find that numerous Facebook contacts that you actually don't desire on your phone will still be showing up.

How Do You Sync Contacts With Facebook, To erase 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 and after that tap Get rid of account.

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

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