Saturday, August 13, 2011

Unsync and Remove iPhone Contacts From Facebook

See your "Facebook phonebook" here: https://www.facebook.com/friends/edit/?sk=phonebook. This will include contacts that you have synced from your iPhone (if you chose to switch that feature on.)
[Note: The iPhone app will only have synced your iPhone contacts to Facebook if you actually chose to switch that feature ON. You may not remember doing this though. I think when they introduced it they did it in a kind of sneaky way, where you hardly noticed. I think it's a pop-up when you first install the app on your iPhone]

First click on the link above and read the expanation in the right-hand column!
It says something like this.

Facebook Phonebook displays contacts you have imported from your phone, as well as your Facebook friends.

If you would like to remove your mobile contacts from Facebook, you need to disable the feature on your mobile phone and visit this page.


Where it says "this page." that is a link you can click on with further instructions (I also provide the link, but if it doesn't work, make sure you go to the actual Facebook page and try to click the link there).

So anyway, click on that link and follow the instructions. You will find instructions there to do both these things.
a) stop syncing your iPhone contacts to Facebook
b) remove your iPhone contacts from Facebook.

Note: Your friends that are already on Facebook and have chosen to share their phone number with you will NOT be removed.

This is what Facebook says about the whole syncing contacts from iPhone to Facebook thing.

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