How to Merge Facebook Accounts 2019
While Facebook does not supply a method to auto-merge all your friends, images, status updates, check-ins or other information, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and perseverance. Unfortunately, you will not be able to move or re-create every one of your Data.
How To Merge Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I suggest to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have described previously. This procedure can take a while and the archive will act as a marginal back-up, should you choose to shut down or erase your account. It will not be of great help in restoring any Data, though.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a web page where you could download your details and get a duplicate of exactly what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this first web page. Additionally find where it claims You can likewise Download a broadened archive ... and also click the corresponding link. This will direct you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently here is where you will certainly require patience. Relying on just how large your main as well as your increased archive are and also the amount of various other archives remain in the queue, this could take a while. And also with that said I imply a couple of hrs.
Note that you need to Download both archives, to get a full backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is available for download, this is just what the web page will certainly appear like.
Although your own photos are supposed to be consisted of in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this treatment an additional back-up, it is also a whole lot faster and also could offer you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As discussed above, you won't be able to Restore or migrate all your Data which includes your friends. You need to manually add friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a third party account then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
However, you could import calls from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with details of a lot of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a small faster way. Most likely to your new Facebook account and also import contacts from any kind of sustained third party account (CSV documents are additionally supported) through the Discover Friends web page.
While you could export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And also calls imported from Facebook will absolutely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I composed a separate article on how you can back up your Facebook get in touches with. Note that only get in touch with information of friends that have accepted have their email address consisted of in info downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the big letdown. There is no way to post or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you want to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) manually or make use of 3rd party devices. Today, the archive just serves as a personal backup, absolutely nothing even more.
So just what are your options? You can re-add your old friends as revealed above, re-upload pictures you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook applications, manually re-do all your individual Settings, including general account and also privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, include trusted calls, or conceal your personal Settings. I wish I had excellent news, however as I stated in the past, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will certainly lose a whole lot! Your whole Timeline as well as Information Feed history will certainly be gone, including posts or images you were identified in, locations you checked into, all the Likes you provided or got, or groups you belonged to, all your account and also privacy Settings, and other records you built up in time. Your images and friends are really all you could take with you, every little thing else needs to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to shut down or shut your old Facebook account, make certain to include your brand-new account as an admin to any type of Groups or Pages you handle. Or else you will certainly shed access to them.
As soon as you have actually looked after admin functions, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and make certain you want to entirely eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you wish to close, and see the Remove My Account web page to start the process. We have actually formerly explained Ways to Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in place to recover your Data, must the account obtain compromised. Facebook never intended to supply a recover attribute; instead they were legally forced to provide a method for users to download their Data. As a result, users are entrusted just half-baked services or uncomfortable workarounds, must they desire to merge or relocate accounts.
Exactly what would bother you most if you had to move to a new Facebook account?