How do I sync facebook friends to my contacts using the IPhone 5?

If your friend has absolutely any contact information in their profile set to "Only Me", then none of the information from the whole profile is sent to the iOS Contacts. I changed my friend's settings to get rid of "Hide on Timeline" and "Only Me" and the information was properly sent. This was not the case prior to this past Friday so it is something that Facebook has accidentally done. However, I do not know if there is any way to contact Facebook for tech support.

So at this point there is nothing that we can do then right? There is nothing that we can change on our end to get these friends from Facebook transferred into our contacts? Do we have to wait for a Facebook fix for this?

Hi

I haven't my girlfriend contacts from facebook on my iphone. How can I change her privacy settings on facebook to put her contacts on my iphone? because every info of her contacts is visible for friends.

Thanks

Sadly no. Just contact Facebook or convince your friends to change their contact information privacy settings.

And Tomasz, something in your girlfriend's account is set to "Only Me" or "Hidden from Timeline" so that's what's causing the issue.

Why everyone heven't the same problem? or maby everyone:) becouse on twitter or facebook or every big webside like http://www.macworld.com, http://9to5mac.com or http://www.cnet.com doesn't write about it!!!???

To contact apply i clicked through the contact us information and got them to ring me at a time that i selected.

With facebook on the app on my phone you simply click the 3 lines in the top left corner and scroll down to 'Report a problem' and then fill out the form explaining the issue

I don't know. It's clear that the problem exists and is happening to all users (the two tech support staff I spoke with were seeing the same issue) but no one in the tech media has picked up on it. I wouldn't even know how to start contacting people to get this stuff out there.

The same thing is happening with me. I have more than 1200 friends on fb a couple of days back I felt some contacts missing. And now I am left with 270 odd. They are disappearing every minute ! What could be the reason ? It's quite irritating I must say, because since my phone doesn't think 900 odd people exist, naturally their bday's are also wiped from the calender :(

Here are some news. 9to5mac finally put an article about it :

http://9to5mac.com/2013/06/06/facebook-aims-to-declutter-the-ios-contacts-app-by -no-longer-syncing-friends-without-useful-contact-info/

"Rather than a bug, we reached out to Facebook about the problem who told us it’s actually Facebook’s new effort to remove “phone book entries that were not useful.”

In other words, Facebook is trying to remove some of the spam from your iOS Contacts app by no longer syncing friends that have no useful contact information. According to a Facebook spokesperson, friends that have no contact information on their profile other than an @facebook.com email address will no longer show up in your Contacts address book."

This is ridiculous.. Surely they should make an option to view contacts or not then, I personally only used the sync function to get the profile pictures for my contacts but now I can't do this. They say you can add them manually but you can't as you can't see your Facebook friends to start with! So how can you add them or atleast get profile pics back for all my contacts?

I agree, this is a crazy decision on the part of Facebook. I'm sure the majority only sync their Facebook contacts for the profile picture and NOT the contact details. If people were concerned about a cluttered address book then they could always turn sync off!! Is there any way that this decision by Facebook will be reversed?

I realise that we can just add people back manually HOWEVER, adding them manually still won't sync their facebook profile picture, correct? Thats ultimately what I want back. I personally don't care about what their email address might be, or their AIM screen name or anything. I just want my contacts to all have facebook pictures linked, and phone numbers if I have them. Why is this so difficult?

It's a bad news. The possibility to have pictures and birthdays for each contact was excellent and now, it's a complete regress to facebook on our device :/

Please, give back all contacts ... !

Can we write to facebook to express our opinion ?

Thanks;)

Is anyone starting to get their Facebook contacts back? Most of my Facebook friends, who have their numbers in their Facebook info, are now automatically syncing into my Contacts list.

Yesterday, I actually re-entered some of my friends (their exact same names on Facebook) and their phone numbers back into my Contacts. I went to the Settings App. Then Facebook. Then "Update All Contacts". A few hours later, I got their Facebook profile pictures back into my Contacts!

It will take some time to get the pictures back, but just keep "Update All Contacts" every so often and it should work.

I agree, my Facebook contacts are still not what they were before when I was able to link 500 friends. I have been complaining to Facebook through their feedback for days and still nothing. I believe alot of users would appreciate it if everybody complains or continues to if you already have:) it's a frusturating new "feature" Facbeook is doing!