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Remove unwanted Facebook contacts from your Windows Phone 7

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I just got my Windows Phone 7 and added my Outlook, Windows Live, and Facebook accounts to the phone.  The phone automatically downloading and merging all my contacts from each source is GREAT! However, I quickly realized that I ended up with 800+ contacts in my People Hub making it a little overwhelming.  Especially since most of the contacts came from Facebook and a number of them are people who I don't regularly interact with or I don't need them to be in my phone's contacts list. 

So if you're like me and want to remove those unwanted Facebook contacts from your Peoples Hub, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to SETTINGS then swipe right to APPLICATIONS and then choose PEOPLE

  2. Then scroll down until you see a section that says “Include Facebook friends as contacts” and choose the “Only add Facebook info to existing contacts” radio button

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UPDATE FOR WINDOWS PHONE 7.5 (Mango)

This menu has changed slightly. To remove unwanted Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or even a particular e-mail account's contacts, do the following:

  1. Navigate to SETTINGS then swipe right to APPLICATIONS and then choose PEOPLE
  2. Then press the FILTER MY CONTACT LIST button where you'll see a list of which accounts to show contacts from.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    December 03, 2010
    I think another question many people are asking is how to remove my Windows Live contacts from the list.  I have a large number of messenger contacts that I don't use/don't want to show up in my phone book.  How can I prevent these from showing up?

  • Anonymous
    December 07, 2010
    Great tip!!! Thanks

  • Anonymous
    December 31, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2011
    Great tip.  I was starting to curse my Windows Phone.  

  • Anonymous
    January 11, 2011
    No problem...and hang in there...it's a new platform so things aren't yet perfect but it will definitely be getting better...

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2011
    If you want to completely remove facebook account from your windows 7 phone then follow the below steps, it took me a hwile to figure this out but it is possible. Go to Settings Select email & accounts Keep your finger pressed down on your facebook account (a pop up menu appears) and select delete

  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2011
    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!

  • Anonymous
    March 31, 2011
    When I try to do that on my HTC HD7,  Settings...there isnt anything that says "applications" or "people"... help!

  • Anonymous
    April 20, 2011
    thanks. when i added facebook and found them all in my contacts couldnt believe it , been looking for ages how to fix it.

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2011
    Thanks.. Nice tip

  • Anonymous
    June 12, 2011
    thank you soooooo much Darren i got my windows phone from a friend and she had her account synced to it plus everything else i had no idea how to get rid of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous
    June 24, 2011
    Thanks for the tip!  Very helpful.

  • Anonymous
    June 28, 2011
    Thank you sooooo much!!! This is an amazing tip!!!

  • Anonymous
    June 29, 2011
    Thank you so much - you have saved my sanity :)

  • Anonymous
    July 14, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    July 14, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    August 13, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    September 25, 2011
    I haven't added facebook for this reason. I went to where described and didn't yet have this choice. Do i have add facebook, get all the contacts added to my phone that I don't want just to have them removed when I do this?

  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2011
    John -- I guess that makes sense to not have that feature enabled if you haven't set up Facebook on your phone. So you know, this feature is a "filter" moreso than it removing the contacts. Those Facebook contacts that don't have matching contacts in your address book can be "removed" from the People Hub but they will still be viewable if you search their name.

  • Anonymous
    October 17, 2011
    Thank you for the post- Very helpful!!

  • Anonymous
    October 22, 2011
    If you still have contacts on your phone but are no longer friends on, say facebook, goto setting-down to people-down to accounts-hold on the account, facebook, and select sync. That will update your contacts. Thanks for helping me find this solution! :)

  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2011
    @Travis, thank you for the tip. I deleted some people who were too vulgar on facebook, and couldnt figure out how to get them off my phone. THANK YOU!

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2012
    @brian - I'm not exactly sure what your issue is. If you choose not to include facebook friends in your contacts list, then you won't see the 1500 people in the list.  Though one thing to point out is that you'll still be able to search for them.  If you could explain your issue more, I'd be happy to assist!

  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2012
    Thanks for this tip been looking for ages. Why does MS think that we are 14 years old and automatically want all our facebook garbage dumped into our mobile phone immediately we connect it to the internet? Common sense would deem that this and similar kiddy features be turned OFF by default.

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2012
    in my lumia 710 i dont find this option, but i can filter contacts... just go to settings, contacts and press the filter contacts, and just let the ones you want, in my case, the google account ones.

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2012
    I'd like to delete one person from my imported Facebook contacts.  I found his name after import - he's deceased.  I've since unfriended him, but that doesn't seem to help.

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2012
    Sorry to hear that, John!   Try this: Go to SETTINGS > E-MAIL+ACOUNTS and then tap and hold FACEBOOK until you get a context menu.  Then press SYNC.  That should refresh your Facebook list.

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2012
    @ Travis - thanks for the earlier posting regarding removing Facebook unfriends.  It solved my deceased contact problem AND taught me more about the phone.  Sorry I hadn't seen it sooner.

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2012
    thank you!

  • Anonymous
    August 04, 2012
    PLEASE PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM ANY PORTION OF FACEBOOK,A REAL INTRUSION IN MY LIFE!!

  • Anonymous
    August 05, 2012
    the option that you mention (Include Facebook friends as contacts) doesnt appear on my people menu, and I have already sync my contacts with my facebook contacs. The problem is that I want to use the information of my facebook contacts only in the contacts that have a number on my phone. HEEEEELP

  • Anonymous
    August 05, 2012
    @Sariana - Hi, please see the article above. I've updated it to include directions for the latest Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango).  It's slightly different of a screen but with greater functionality.

  • Anonymous
    August 29, 2012
    I need to delete Facebook account from my Phone...Can anyone Help me?

  • Anonymous
    August 30, 2012
    To delete your Facebook account from your phone, you can go to SETTINGS > EMAIL+ACCOUNTS and then PRESS+HOLD Facebook until you get the context menu.  In that menu you will see a DELETE menu

  • Anonymous
    November 24, 2012
    How to I delete them from even the search. I don't want them on my phone at all. Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2012
    If you don't want the Facebook contacts on your phone at all (not show up in search), then your only option is to remove the Facebook account all-together.  

  • Anonymous
    December 06, 2012
    why i can't found “Include Facebook friends as contacts” and choose the “Only add Facebook info to existing contacts” radio button at my nokia lumia 710 ? how to delete a facebook contact even i already deleted him from my facebook but my phone still have it ?

  • Anonymous
    December 07, 2012
    If you go to your accounts section, press and hold Facebook until you get a context menu. In there, there should be a SYNC button. That'll force Facebook to refresh on your phone.

  • Anonymous
    December 09, 2012
    I found this helpfull I've only had my phone 24 hours and this already annoyed me I find it all very messy plus the Facebook app itself isn't as good as android or IOS. that said this was helpful info maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel haha.

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2013
    @ Travis, this really helped me, i deleted all unwanted fb friends and couldnt figure out how to get them off my phone!! Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    March 31, 2013
    But even after filtering out facebook contacts, they show up when i search. Can we prevent that ?

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2013
    u r the man seriously get a beer for urself

  • Anonymous
    November 29, 2013
    you can do all those same steps with a windows 8 phone but you will need to Tap "filter my contact list" and select which list you want to filter, and then you can start deleting the contacts you want.

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2014
    Ive tried to delete all my facebook contacts from my phone by deleting the facebook account from email+accounts and it doesnt worked.. After I read some advices here Ive tried to delete them by going to SETTINGS -> APPLICATIONS -> PEOPLE, but I dont have a section "Include Facebook friends as contacts".. So I need help ! Pleasee !

  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2014
    Maya - which version of Windows Phone OS are you on?

  • Anonymous
    August 18, 2014
    I just got a Nokia Lumia 950 phone.  I put Facebook on the phone, so I could use it when I'm away from home.  Then I went to start adding in more phone numbers in my directory.  I was shocked when I went in there and found ALL 300+ facebook friends listed in my phone book!  How do I (1) have my phone book list just my phone contacts and (2) separately have a FB account on my phone without any of those people listed in my phone directory?  The three places they gave me to choice from to filter were my gmail, Facebook, and hotmail (I don't have a hotmail account).  I don't want ANY of my email or Facebook people in my phone directory (unless I choose them).  How do I maintain a phone directory and a FB account separately?  Or do I have a phone directory and then not have FB on my phone?

  • Anonymous
    August 18, 2014
    Nokia 920, I mean...

  • Anonymous
    September 23, 2014
    @  Darren 10 Feb 2011 7:45 AM # Thank you Thank you.... Thats exactly what i wanted to do!

  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2015
    Thank you so much.  I could not figure this out for weeks.  Your answer was just what I needed.  You're a saint!

  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2015
    Mine is Windows 8. i went in the settings> application> people. i tried to filter my contact but it gave me options like (show only from Hotmail) and in other case. I tried my settings, press in the set up accounts, emails, contacts etc. I sync my facebook account and later delete it but still my facebook contact appears. Why?

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2015
    I just got an HTC M8...is there a way to sync my facebook photos WITHOUT having to sync all the dang contacts into my address book?  I have tried everything...filtering doesn't do anything.  I've logged out and back in on my phone...un-installed and re-installed facebook - over the course of the day, it added all of them right back in.  I would like to have access to my facebook pictures, i just don't want all of the contacts inmy phone...

  • Anonymous
    July 10, 2015
    My Nolia Lumia has replaced my phone contacts with their facebook/google + info.  I can no longer find phone contact information.  Previous texts chains to these people says they are read only.

  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2015
    Am using a lumia  520 phone I want to delete numbers from my contact which was added from facebook , ve done all I can but nor is working.

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2016
    Go to settings, then email & accounts, delete yahoo.

  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2016
    How to deleet that contact of facebook permanently.yes what you said helped me a lot but the people s picture is still shown on the live tile of people hub.

  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2016
    How do I remove unwanted Facebook contacts from my Nokia Lumia 900 mobile phone

  • Anonymous
    March 31, 2016
    Finally fixed, thanks so much. I think my Windows Phone is the hardest, and least user friendly phone I've ever had.