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Facebook contacts not syncing

I have recently bought an iPhone 5. I synced my Facebook account from the settings menu to integrate my contact list.it had done so in the first place without any problems.but today while scrolling my contact list i realized that for few of my friends the sync had not taken place although they were in my friend list.thinking of it as a technical glitch i deleted my Facebook account from the settings menu and then signed in again and updated my contact list. But to my horror it failed to do so. The contacts were not synced. In the first place i was able to merge the contacts but now it is not happening.

iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.4

Posted on May 31, 2013 11:26 AM

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Jun 4, 2013 10:28 AM in response to Bhavya.anand

I'm also having this problem. Some Facebook friends are downloaded to my iOS Phonebook, some aren't.


For example: there's a person that I added today that shows up perfectly on my Phonebook. Her name is there, her picture is there, her phone number, all automatically.

But there are a LOT of friends that just DON'T show up. Not even if I create them locally on my iPhone with the exact same name, they're not update with Facebook info. I don't know what to do.


I tried deleting my Facebook account from iOS settings and re-setting it but it changed nothing. I have almost 300 Facebook friends but only 120 show up on my Phonebook.

Jun 6, 2013 8:22 AM in response to Bhavya.anand

Hi there.


I have the same problem. I noticed that most of the Contatacts that are successfully synced with Facebook have entered a Phone number. Also, if i want to Update the Profile Photos on my MacBook using Facebook, the following message appears:


Email addresses and phone numbers in the Contacts app will only be used to search Facebook to find profile photos for your contacts.


So maybe only Contacts with Phone numbers/Emails are Integrated to the Phonebook. Might be a Glitch or a new Facebook policy


Can someone confirm that? Thanks

Jun 7, 2013 6:27 AM in response to Bhavya.anand

This also happening to me. The first time it sync'ed only 23 out of 300, I deleted the account and started again this time I got 66 out 300. Not all of those 66 contacts have phone numbers but they all have email addresses which are not @facebook.com addresses so it may well be only contacts with either a phone number or an email address (which is not a facebook email address) gets added.

Jun 7, 2013 6:45 AM in response to Bhavya.anand

It's a new Facebook policy. There's no need to report to Apple or Facebook.


Facebook claimed they're not gonna sync contacts who don't have useful info, at least his/her email (not including the @facebook one), birthday, phone number, address, will not be synced to iOS phonebook.


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

Jun 8, 2013 1:42 AM in response to Cleberson

I read what you posted, it said I can add FB's's contacts manually. Do you know how do I do that?


In the same post I even read this from a user MalnarMario " There is another problem. Linking FB contacts to you own to join extra information very often changes the leading name of the joined card back into facebook dominant one, although you can specify otherwise. Why??? and there is unfortunately no cure."


The names and the pictures are getting messed up.


I know Apple has great s/w engineers who would rectify this overnight. Please Apple do something.

Facebook contacts not syncing

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