How to Sync My Facebook Friends to My Contacts

How To Sync My Facebook Friends To My Contacts - Linking your contacts with Facebook can be helpful, however it can also be quite discouraging. Frequently, you'll find that some didn't sync immediately, that you have actually now got replicate contacts because the names do not quite match, or that your contacts book is overflowing with the details of Facebook friends you didn't understand you had.

Luckily, there is a method to manually connect or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we reveal you how. (Also see: Ways to turn off alerts in Facebook Messenger.).

 

How To Sync My Facebook Friends To My Contacts


If in your contacts book you can't see any linked Facebook contacts, you'll initially 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 smart device and are logged in, you need to see Facebook there as an alternative.

Tap it, then check whether you've 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 brand-new contacts, all which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have phone numbers however lots of will have email addresses at least, and they need to likewise have profile images.

You ought to 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 delete a few 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 by hand connect contacts with Facebook.

Aggravatingly, however, by hand combining and connecting your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been challenging considering that Android 4.0. It's not perfect, however the very best service we have actually discovered originates from a third-party app. There are several alternatives, however the very best one we have actually found up until now that's totally free and works well is Sync.Me.

Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts already saved on your smart device. It's less particular than the built-in Facebook sync tool, and lets you manually pick which contacts match with which Facebook profile.

If you discover that a contact is matched with the incorrect profile you can merely tap on it within the Sync.Me app, tap Incorrect Profile and browse 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 "Suggestions" area that matches, or click Facebook to by hand search your contacts and discover the right person. This generally uses to contacts in your telephone directory that you've kept with simply a given name.

When you have actually completed, 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 phonebook with a nickname, or maybe merely 'Mum,' or 'Dad,' for example. Do repair that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the relevant contact, then tap the plus icon below Facebook. You can now find that individual's profile and by hand sync it.

Ways to delete all Facebook contacts.

If you've currently synced from Facebook utilizing the method described previously in this article, you might discover that numerous Facebook contacts that you really don't desire on your phone will still be appearing.

How To Sync My Facebook Friends To My Contacts, 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 then tap Eliminate account.

If you ever change your mind you can constantly go back to this page, tap Add account and after that choose Facebook.