How to Sync Contacts From Facebook to android

How To Sync Contacts From Facebook To Android - Linking your contacts with Facebook can be helpful, however it can likewise be rather discouraging. Typically, you'll find that some didn't sync instantly, that you have actually now got duplicate contacts because the names don't quite match, or that your contacts book is overruning with the details of Facebook buddies you didn't know you had.

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

 

How To Sync Contacts From Facebook To 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've got the Facebook app set up on your smartphone and are visited, you must see Facebook there as an option.

Tap it, and then examine whether you've turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll wish to turn it on now. It'll take a minute to sync.

Now go back to your contacts book and you'll find great deals of new contacts, all which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have phone numbers however many will have email addresses at least, and they should likewise 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 want to delete a few of the contacts that are appearing, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hang on a contact you don't want to see. Then tap delete.

Ways to manually link contacts with Facebook.

Aggravatingly, however, by hand combining and linking your contacts with their Facebook profiles has actually been difficult since Android 4.0. It's not ideal, however the finest service we have actually discovered originates from a third-party app. There are several options, however the finest one we have actually discovered up until now that's 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 choose which contacts match with which Facebook profile.

If you discover that a contact is matched with the incorrect profile you can simply tap on it within the Sync.Me app, tap Wrong Profile and search 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 "Ideas" area that matches, or click Facebook to by hand browse your contacts and discover the ideal individual. This typically applies to contacts in your telephone directory that you've kept with simply a given name.

When you have actually ended up, tap Done and the app will sync all your contacts.
You may find that some contacts still haven't synced, particularly if you have actually noted that contact in your phone book with a nickname, or possibly merely 'Mum,' or 'Dad,' for example. 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.

How to delete all Facebook contacts.

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

How To Sync Contacts From Facebook To Android, To delete them all at when without getting rid of 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 then tap Remove account.

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

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