Can’t See Facebook Friends In iOS Contacts ? It’s A New Feature

Home 2013 June 7 Can’t See Facebook Friends In iOS Contacts ? It’s A New Feature
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When Apple first introduced iOS 6, you may have noticed iOS allows you to grant the Contacts app access to your Facebook account by going to Settings—-> Facebook. So what does this means ? Well using this feature creates a new ‘Facebook’ group in Contacts which contains entries for all of the people you’re friends with on Facebook. According to a thread over at Apple’s support forums, a number of people are experiencing an issue where some of the entries are dissapearing from the Facebook group in iOS Contacts.

But don’t worry, according to a new report from the folks at 9to5mac, it is just a new feature Facebook added to its list.. 

Jordan Kahn of 9to5Mac reached over to Facebook and was told it’s part of the social networking giant’s decluttering effort which was designed to remove “phone book entries that were not useful.”

In Facebook’s parlance, a useless contact item is one without any contact information on Facebook other than a @facebook.com email address (seriously, who’s using these anyway?).
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 a @facebook.com email address will not be synced to the Contacts address book going forward.

But do you know something ? This is a great and useful feature that I would love to use it on my iPhone, I regularly sync my Facebook and Twitter contacts with my iOS devices and these useless entries with no information apart from first and last name have been driving me crazy.

So right now, in case you want to know how Facebook sync contacts in iOS, go to Settings, then scroll down until you reach the Facebook section and sign into your Facebook account. From there, set the Contacts toggle in Settings > Facebook to on and you’re done.

So instead of replacing your existed contacts on your device, Facebook sync creates a new ‘Facebook’ group in the Contacts app. It’s a one-way sync: when your friends update their email address or phone number on Facebook, those changes will be reflected in your Contacts.

So what do you think about this new feature Facebook added ? 

iOS 6 can also update your existing contacts with their Facebook profile names and photos: go to Settings > Facebook, scroll down to the bottom and hit the ‘Update All Contacts’ button.

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