How to Sync Facebook Contacts to android

How To Sync Facebook Contacts To Android - Connecting your contacts with Facebook can be useful, however it can also be quite frustrating. Typically, you'll discover that some didn't sync instantly, that you've now got duplicate contacts due to the fact that the names do not quite match, or that your contacts book is overruning with the information of Facebook pals you didn't know you had.

Thankfully, there is a way to manually link or unlink contacts with Facebook on Android, and here we show you how. (Also see: How to turn off notifications in Facebook Messenger.).

 

How To Sync Facebook Contacts To Android

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 have actually got the Facebook app set up on your smart device and are visited, you ought to see Facebook there as an alternative.

Tap it, and then examine 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 new contacts, all which have actually been imported from Facebook. Not all them will have phone numbers but many will have email addresses at least, and they ought to also have profile images.

You need 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 simply that you wish to delete some of the contacts that are appearing, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hang on a contact you do not want to see. Then tap delete.

Ways to by hand link contacts with Facebook.

Aggravatingly, however, manually merging and linking your contacts with their Facebook profiles has actually been tough since Android 4.0. It's not perfect, but the best service we have actually found originates from a third-party app. There are a number of options, but the best one we have actually discovered so far that's totally free and works well is Sync.Me.

Sync.Me lets you match Facebook contacts with contacts already kept on your smartphone. It's less choosy than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you by hand choose which contacts match with which Facebook profile.

If you find that a contact is matched with the wrong profile you can merely 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 sure about will reveal on the Solve Matches page. Simply tap the contact's name, and then tap the profile in the "Ideas" section that matches, or click Facebook to manually browse your contacts and find the ideal individual. This generally applies to contacts in your phonebook that you have actually saved with just a given name.

When you've finished, tap Done and the app will sync all 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 perhaps simply 'Mum,' or 'Dad,' 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 person's profile and manually sync it.

How to erase all Facebook contacts.

If you have actually already synced from Facebook using the technique described earlier in this short article, you might discover that numerous Facebook contacts that you in fact do not desire on your phone will still be appearing.

How To Sync Facebook Contacts To Android, To delete them at one time 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 then tap Eliminate account.

If you ever alter your mind you can constantly return to this page, tap Add account then select Facebook.

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