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Facebook Contact Sync Problem

Hi, I never had the problem of syncing my Facebook contacts with my iPhone 5 and iPad 2 but recently I turned off my Facebook contact sync on my iphone 5 at Settings>Facebook>Contacts and turned it on later, and immediately I noticed only 41 out of 817 Facebook contacts were synced with my iPhone and I lost all the merge with my existing phone contacts.


I tried this on my brother's iPhone 5 and hitted the same problem, he has 747 Facebook contacts synced to his device prior to turning off the sync, and after turning off the sync and turning it on later, only 75 out of 747 contacts were synced to his iPhone 5.


I did not dare to further try this on my iPad 2 as I scare it will screw up the contacts I linked on my iPad.


Looks like there is a problem with Facebook contact sync on iOS.


Has anyone encountered this problem?


iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.4

Posted on Jun 1, 2013 2:30 AM

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Aug 29, 2013 11:44 AM in response to louistc

I went to apple today and got a new phone. they said it was a software corruption but when I uploaded everything back on from icloud then re installed facebook, the same thing is happening. No facebook contacts are being synched. Only 12 out of my 1800+ friends.


Apple said they have no knowledge of any problem such as this and I reported the problem to facebook... nothing. I'm so frusterated!!!!!

Oct 12, 2013 5:39 AM in response to IMike67

I'm so glad I'm not alone in this - it's been annoying me for ages. Although I can understand why Facebook don't want to clutter our contact lists, I used to link contacts together just to have their profile pictures. That was really fun and added a great visual element to what is otherwise a cold and impersonal experience. I wish they would allow us to do it again.

Nov 13, 2013 6:35 PM in response to louistc

I just got an iphone and had the same problems. in my case i got lucky. my galaxy III did however have all my facebook contacts. i exported these to the sd card. then i hooked it up to my computer found the file and imported it to my gmail (any email would work i assume) after the contacts appeared and i merged them to remove duplicates. then went to my iphone mail and updated it. then in my contacts i made sure my gmail was synced and wolla!!

if you dont have a android to use or another device there may be a way to possible do it from facebook? but idk

hope this hepls! best of luck with this terrible sytem 😁

Facebook Contact Sync Problem

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