How to Find Someone on Facebook by Phone Number: Best 3 Ways

To find someone on Facebook by phone number, there are 3 best ways: to do Facebook phone number search, to try syncing phone contacts with Facebook and to find someone’s account via a reverse lookup tool.

In fact, it’s rather difficult to find someone on Facebook due to the sheer large number of Facebook users. Besides, you will encounter hundreds of results if you’re searching for someone with a common name. Luckily, Facebook now has a new phone number search feature that allows you to search for a specific phone number and see if that number is associated with a Facebook account.

We’ll look at the three best ways to find someone on Facebook by phone number. If you’d rather not use different types of search, you can find someone with one click through a reverse lookup service. Just go straight to this part of the article.

Do a Facebook Phone Number Search

The Facebook phone number search feature is opt-in. This means a user must allow their phone number to be searchable. If someone’s phone number is searchable, you can easily find them using the Facebook app or website search bar.

Here’s how to search Facebook by phone number:

1. Open the Facebook app or facebook.com and log in.
2. Click on the search bar in the top-right corner if you’re on the FB website and the search icon if you use the Facebook app.
3. Add the phone number of the Facebook account you want to find and hit enter.
   
4. If the phone number is associated with a Facebook account, it will appear on top.

Sync Phone Contacts with Facebook

Facebook has an option where you can add all your phone contacts to your friends list. You can see their Facebook account on the list once you bring a person’s phone number to your friends list.

However, if the person you want to find has not used their real name or photos, you might not identify their FB account since Facebook only shows the list of people in your contacts with Facebook accounts.

Here’s how to sync phone contacts with Facebook:

1. Open Settings and Privacy of your Facebook account and then click on Settings.
2. Scroll down to Permissions and tap Upload Contacts.
3. On the Upload Contacts function, tap on the slider and click Continue.
   
4. You can then send an individual a friend request once you’ve synced your contacts.

Find Facebook Account by Reverse Phone Lookup

The third way of doing a Facebook number search is through reverse phone lookup. These are the best tools for finding out if someone is on Facebook and other social media accounts: TruthFinder, Intelius, Spokeo, etc. You choose the service, enter the phone number, and it finds any related profiles on social media platforms.

For example, Intelius proved to be a time saver. I only used the reverse phone number lookup tool and chose the background report option. The social media report gave me usernames and links to the person’s social media accounts. All I did was click on the Facebook link, and I was redirected to the target’s Facebook page.

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Use the Find Friends Feature

The Find Friends feature exists to help you find people on Facebook. Once you give it the phone number, it will scour through your potential friends’ list and see if it can match the number to a person. Click on Find Friends and enter the number in the Search for Friends section. After you hit enter, you’ll get results with the Facebook account belonging to that mobile number.

Conclusion

As you can see, searching Facebook with a phone number can be challenging. Using the Facebook search bar is the most obvious method, but it’s a long shot. Syncing contacts is a hit or miss, leaving you with reverse number lookup tools.

TruthFinder and Intelius are the most reliable methods of finding someone’s Facebook account with a phone number. Learn more about how to find someone on social media in this post.