How to Sync Facebook Contacts On android
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Thursday, June 7, 2018
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Luckily, there is a way to by hand link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Likewise see: Ways to turn off notifications in Facebook Messenger.).
How To Sync Facebook Contacts On Android
If in your contacts book you cannot see any linked Facebook contacts, you'll first need to go to the phone app, tap contacts, and then tap more. Now, click accounts, and if you've got the Facebook app set up on your smart device and are visited, you should see Facebook there as a choice.
Tap it, and after that inspect whether you've turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll want to turn it on now. It'll take a moment to sync.
Now return to your contacts book and you'll find lots of new contacts, all which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have telephone number however lots of will have email addresses at least, and they must 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 just that you want to delete some of the contacts that are revealing up, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hold on a contact you don't desire to see. Then tap delete.
The best ways to by hand link contacts with Facebook.
Annoyingly, though, manually combining and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been tough since Android 4.0. It's not perfect, but the very best option we've discovered comes from a third-party app. There are numerous alternatives, however the finest one we have actually found so far that's totally free and works well is Sync.Me.
Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts currently saved on your smartphone. It's less picky than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you manually select which contacts match with which Facebook profile.
If you find that a contact is matched with the incorrect profile you can simply tap on it within the Sync.Me app, tap Incorrect Profile and browse Facebook to find the one that matches.
Any contacts that Sync.Me isn't really sure about will reveal on the Solve Matches page. Merely tap the contact's name, then tap the profile in the "Suggestions" area that matches, or click Facebook to by hand search your contacts and find the right person. This typically uses to contacts in your phonebook that you have actually stored with simply a given name.
When you've completed, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You may discover that some contacts still haven't synced, especially if you've listed that contact in your phonebook with a label, or maybe simply 'Mum,' or 'Daddy,' for example. Do fix that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the appropriate contact, and then tap the plus icon beneath 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 technique described previously in this article, you may find that numerous Facebook contacts that you actually don't desire on your phone will still be revealing up.
How To Sync Facebook Contacts On Android, To erase them simultaneously without eliminating 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 Get rid of account.
If you ever change your mind you can always return to this page, tap Add account and after that select Facebook.