How to use Facebook Profile Photos in your iOS Contacts

• Apple allows us to synchronize the friends of Facebook with the indispensable and necessary contacts on iOS.
• Contacts may have their corresponding profile photo of the social network.
• With this guide you will discover how you can achieve it in just a few simple steps.

How to use the profile photo of our Facebook friends in iOS contacts

We meet many people who like to have their iOS contacts with a photo to better know who that contact is or simply to put a face on them, but one is not always available. We have one of the alternatives that we can use is the photo they have on their Facebook profile, something that as we will show you today, is very fast and simple.

If you are one of the people who prefer to keep the face rather than the name, you will surely like this tutorial, in as much as you can have the profile picture of your friends as a contact image in iOS. What is the problem? Today many people use images of all kinds on Facebook: of themselves, of landscapes, of their pets, etc.

Here we show you in a few quick and easy steps how link your friends from Facebook with your iPhone or iPad contacts. Before starting, we have to clarify that until now there is no way to synchronize only the profiles of the social network to the existing contacts, but that all of them will be synchronized, whether or not we have them on our device.

Let's explain step by step how to use Facebook profile photos in our iOS contacts

Before we begin, we must have the official Facebook application installed on our iOS device. Once we have this, we go to the menu Settings of our iPhone and then we look for - Facebook, where several applications appear that you can allow to use your account.

 

1. If we are not logged in to Facebook We will have to put our username and password in their corresponding sections.
2. Once this is done, you have to activate the option "Contacts". With this simple movement, Facebook friends will automatically sync with iOS friends. This task may take a few minutes, depending on the number of friends you have on the social network.
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   Now When you open the Contacts application of your iPhone, iPad or iPod you will see how all the friends you had on Facebook will appear. But not only that, but they will also have their corresponding profile photo. In addition, additional information such as websites, email address or connection with Facebook Messenger will be added.

We have to stand out In the event that you already have an image placed on some friends or family, it will not be replaced by Facebook. In addition, we have to say that you will continue to be able to edit the information at all times, including the new information added through Facebook.

How to hide duplicate contacts or that we do not want to see

As we previously advised, This function synchronizes absolutely all contacts, regardless of whether they are only on the social network or not. On the other hand, it must also be said that we may come across some duplicate contacts. This is because the name we have on iOS is not the same as the one they have on their Facebook profile.

Currently we do not have a way to remove them from the iPhone only, but yes we can hide them quite easily. To do this you have to go to "Groups" within the Contacts application of our iPhone or iPad, where there are several options to choose from. In this case, we will have to remove the tick from the option that shows "all from Facebook". In this way, as the guys from iDownloadBlog, we will keep the names that were previously in iOS and all duplicates and those that are only on the social network, but not on the device, will be hidden.

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