How to manually link contacts with Facebook on Android

Find out how to manually link your smartphone's contacts with your friends' Facebook profiles.

Tap it, and then check whether you've turned Sync Contacts on. If not, you'll want to turn it on now. It'll take a moment to sync.
Now go back to your contacts book and you'll find lots of new contacts, all of which have been imported from Facebook. Not all of them will have phone numbers but many will have email addresses at least, and they should also 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 want to delete some of the contacts that are showing up, you can go through your contacts book and tap and hold on a contact you don't want to see. Then tap delete.

How to manually link contacts with Facebook

Annoyingly, though, manually merging and linking your contacts with their Facebook profiles has been difficult since Android 4.0. It's not ideal, but the best solution we've found comes from a third-party app. There are several options, but the 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 stored on your smartphone. It's less picky than the built-in Facebook sync tool, and lets you manually choose which contacts match with which Facebook profile

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