Facebook Contact Sync
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Pusahma satu
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Friday, July 20, 2018
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Thankfully, there is a way to manually link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Also see: The best ways to turn off notifications in Facebook Messenger.).
Facebook Contact Sync
If in your contacts book you can't see any connected Facebook contacts, you'll first have 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 mobile phone and are logged in, you should see Facebook there as an option.
Tap it, and then inspect 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 lots of new contacts, all of which have been imported from Facebook. Not all them will have telephone number but numerous will have e-mail addresses a minimum of, and they ought to likewise have profile images.
You ought 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 just that you wish to delete a few of the contacts that are showing up, 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 by hand link contacts with Facebook.
Aggravatingly, though, manually combining and linking your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been hard considering that Android 4.0. It's not ideal, but the best service we have actually discovered originates from a third-party app. There are numerous options, however the best one we've found so far that's totally 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 choose which contacts match with which Facebook profile.
If you discover that a contact is matched with the wrong profile you can simply 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 show on the Solve Matches page. Merely tap the contact's name, and after that tap the profile in the "Ideas" section that matches, or click Facebook to manually search your contacts and discover the ideal person. This usually applies to contacts in your phone book that you've stored with just a first name.
When you've finished, tap Done and the app will sync all of your contacts.
You might find that some contacts still haven't synced, especially if you have actually listed that contact in your telephone directory with a nickname, or perhaps just 'Mum,' or 'Daddy,' for instance. Do fix that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the pertinent contact, and then tap the plus icon beneath Facebook. You can now discover that person's profile and by hand sync it.
The best ways to delete all Facebook contacts.
If you've currently synced from Facebook using the approach described earlier in this article, you might discover that numerous Facebook contacts that you really don't want on your phone will still be showing up.
Facebook Contact Sync, To delete them at one time 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 then tap Get rid of account.
If you ever alter your mind you can constantly return to this page, tap Add account and then select Facebook.