How To Sync Facebook Contacts On Android

How To Sync Facebook Contacts On Android - Connecting your contacts with Facebook can be useful, however it can likewise be quite discouraging. Typically, you'll discover that some didn't sync instantly, that you've now got duplicate contacts because the names do not rather match, or that your contacts book is overflowing with the information of Facebook good friends you didn't understand you had.

Thankfully, there is a method to manually connect 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 On Android

If in your contacts book you cannot 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 smartphone and are logged in, you should see Facebook there as an alternative.

Tap it, and then inspect whether you have actually turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll wish 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 been imported from Facebook. Not all them will have phone numbers however many will have e-mail addresses at least, and they need to 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 wish to erase a few of the contacts that are showing up, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hang on a contact you do not desire to see. Then tap erase.

The best ways to by hand connect contacts with Facebook.

Annoyingly, however, by hand merging and linking your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been tough since Android 4.0. It's not perfect, but the finest solution we have actually found comes from a third-party app. There are a number of alternatives, however the very best one we've found so far that's 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 choosy than the integrated Facebook sync tool, and lets you manually pick which contacts match with which Facebook profile.

If you find that a contact is matched with the incorrect profile you can merely tap on it within the Sync.Me app, tap Wrong Profile and browse Facebook to find 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" area that matches, or click Facebook to manually search your contacts and discover the right individual. This typically uses to contacts in your telephone directory that you have actually saved with just a given name.

When you've completed, tap Done and the app will sync all your contacts.
You may discover that some contacts still have not synced, especially if you've noted that contact in your phone book with a nickname, or maybe just 'Mum,' or 'Papa,' for instance. Do repair that, fo into the Sync.Me app, tap on the pertinent contact, and then tap the plus icon underneath Facebook. You can now find that person's profile and by hand sync it.

How to erase all Facebook contacts.

If you have actually currently synced from Facebook using the technique explained previously in this post, you may find that hundreds of Facebook contacts that you in fact do not desire on your phone will still be appearing.

How To Sync Facebook Contacts On Android, To delete them at one time without eliminating 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 then tap Remove account.

If you ever change your mind you can constantly return to this page, tap Include account then choose Facebook.