How to Sync Contacts From Facebook
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Alfian Adi Saputra
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Sunday, June 10, 2018
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The good news is, there is a way to manually link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Likewise see: How to turn off notifications in Facebook Messenger.).
How To Sync Contacts From Facebook
If in your contacts book you can't see any linked Facebook contacts, you'll first require to go to the phone app, tap contacts, and after that tap more. Now, click accounts, and if you've got the Facebook app installed on your smart device and are visited, you ought to see Facebook there as an alternative.
Tap it, then inspect whether you have actually turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll want to turn it on now. It'll take a minute to sync.
Now go back to your contacts book and you'll discover great deals of new contacts, all which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have contact number however many will have e-mail addresses at least, and they need to 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 some of the contacts that are appearing, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hold on a contact you do not wish to see. Then tap delete.
The best ways to manually link contacts with Facebook.
Aggravatingly, though, manually merging and linking your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been hard because Android 4.0. It's not perfect, however the finest option we have actually found originates from a third-party app. There are several options, but the best one we have actually found 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 particular than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you manually choose which contacts match with which Facebook profile.
If you find 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. Just tap the contact's name, and after that tap the profile in the "Tips" area that matches, or click Facebook to by hand browse your contacts and find the ideal person. This generally uses to contacts in your phone book that you have actually stored with just a first name.
When you have actually ended up, tap Done and the app will sync all your contacts.
You might discover that some contacts still have not synced, particularly if you have actually listed that contact in your phonebook with a nickname, or perhaps simply 'Mum,' or 'Daddy,' for example. Do repair that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the pertinent contact, and after that tap the plus icon below Facebook. You can now find that individual's profile and manually sync it.
Ways to delete all Facebook contacts.
If you've currently synced from Facebook using the method explained earlier in this article, you may find that hundreds of Facebook contacts that you really do not desire on your phone will still be appearing.
How To Sync Contacts From Facebook, To delete them at one time 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 after that tap Remove account.
If you ever alter your mind you can always go back to this page, tap Include account then choose Facebook.