How to Sync Facebook with Contacts
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Alfian Adi Saputra
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Wednesday, June 13, 2018
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The good news is, there is a method to manually connect or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we reveal you how. (Likewise see: The best ways to change off alerts in Facebook Messenger.).
How To Sync Facebook With Contacts
If in your contacts book you cannot see any connected Facebook contacts, you'll first need to go to the phone app, tap contacts, and after that tap more. Now, click accounts, and if you have actually got the Facebook app installed on your smartphone and are logged in, you should see Facebook there as an option.
Tap it, and then examine 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 find great deals of new contacts, all of which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have contact number however many will have email addresses a minimum of, and they must likewise have profile images.
You should 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 just that you wish to erase 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 wish to see. Then tap delete.
How to by hand link contacts with Facebook.
Annoyingly, however, by hand combining and linking your contacts with their Facebook profiles has actually been challenging since Android 4.0. It's not perfect, however the best solution we've found originates from a third-party app. There are several options, however the finest one we've found so far that's complimentary and works well is Sync.Me.
Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts already saved on your smart device. It's less choosy than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you by hand pick which contacts match with which Facebook profile.
If you discover 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 discover the one that matches.
Any contacts that Sync.Me isn't sure about will reveal on the Solve Matches page. Merely tap the contact's name, and after that tap the profile in the "Tips" section that matches, or click Facebook to manually browse your contacts and discover the ideal individual. This normally applies to contacts in your phonebook that you've saved with simply a given name.
When you've ended up, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You may find that some contacts still have not synced, especially if you have actually listed that contact in your telephone directory with a label, or perhaps just 'Mum,' or 'Daddy,' for instance. Do repair that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the pertinent contact, and after that tap the plus icon underneath Facebook. You can now discover that individual's profile and by hand sync it.
Ways to delete all Facebook contacts.
If you've already synced from Facebook utilizing the technique described previously in this post, you may discover that numerous Facebook contacts that you actually don't want on your phone will still be revealing up.
How To Sync Facebook With Contacts, To erase them all at once 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 and after that tap Get rid of account.
If you ever change your mind you can always go back to this page, tap Include account then choose Facebook.