Delete Your Smartphone Contacts Uploaded On Facebook

Nowadays, we’re getting used to being more and more familiar with a couple of data-leaked scandals. Facebook, the social network behemoth has boasted of millions of daily active accounts, now seems to be targeted for uploading or exposing data of hundreds of millions of users “accidentally”. It is facing immense heat not only from authorities but also from general users. Since the scandal of Cambridge Analytica, the US tech firm still hasn’t been stopping anything else similar to that. As a result, there’s an alert that notifies us to protect our private data before it was leaked and abused. Especially, several users are unaware of Facebook uploading the contact list from your phones on its website.

Remembering it or not, every user may have once granted Facebook permission to upload the contacts in the phone’s address book. We can simply do our part at least by deleting the data that Facebook has extracted from our phones on to its servers.

1. After logging in your Facebook account in the browser, enter the URL: fb.com/mobile/facebook/contacts/

2. The webpage will show you three tabs including Contacts, Calls, Invitations Sent and Text History.

3. Click on the ‘Delete All’ option under these three tabs.

4. Click “Delete” to confirm your decision.

Don’t automatically re-upload your contacts

If you’ve already turned on the setting that allows your device to automatically import your friends’ contact information to Facebook, deleting this information won’t work properly - it’ll just re-sync your contacts in the next time you use the app. All you need to do is turning off the "Automatically upload new and updated contacts" function.