How to Find Contacts on Instagram? Sync Contacts to Instagram

With Instagram’s “Contact Syncing” feature, you can find contacts on Instagram without knowing their usernames. Yes, you don’t need to have usernames to look for someone.

Say you have an old friend you lost touch with. Now, you want to find them on Instagram but you are unable to locate them through username search. This is where Instagram’s “Contact Syncing” comes in.

Let’s get into the details right away. 

How to See Contacts on Instagram? A Complete Tutorial

Here are three ways to find your contacts on Instagram:

1. Discover People: By manually browsing through the options, you are likely to see people you may know in the list.
2. Sync Contacts: Instagram allows you to sync your contacts from your phonebook to Instagram. This will show you profiles of people in your contacts.
3. Connect through Facebook: By connecting your connections on Facebook to Instagram, you can discover their Instagram profiles.

Let’s explore these options one by one.

1-Discover People:

In this option, you can browse through your “Discover people” section to pick and choose who you wish to follow. Alternatively, you can look for your contacts in “Suggested for you”.

How to Discover People on Instagram?

• To access the “Discover People” option, go to your profile.
• On your profile page, you will see three options under your profile icon and bio. These options would be “Edit Profile”, “Share Profile” and an icon (a person with a +). Click on the icon to access “Discover People”.
• Browse and see who you can find.

How to Find “Suggested for You” on Instagram?

• Go to your notifications. (Go to your feed, and click on the heart icon in the top right corner next to the messenger)
• Click on Follow Requests. Scroll down to see “Suggested for you”.
• Alternatively, you can find these suggestions on top of the “Discover People” list when you choose “See all”. 

2- Sync Phone Contacts on Instagram:

When you sync your phone contacts with Instagram, Instagram will use the user information of your contacts to match their profiles. Through this, it will show you their user profiles without having to search them through usernames.

Here’s how to add contacts on Instagram based on your device:

For Android:

• Go to your profile page.
• Click on the discover people icon. Click on “See all”. A notification message will appear asking you to sync your contacts. Click on “allow” to sync contacts.
• If the notification message does not appear, you can still see the option to sync contacts. 

For iOS:

• Go to your profile page.
• Click on the three lines in the top corner.
• Select “Discover People”.
• Give access to Instagram to connect to your contacts by choosing “allow access”. 

3-Sync Your Instagram With Facebook

Another way to find your contacts is through Facebook. The steps are fairly simple.

• Go to your profile page.
• Click on the “Discover People” option.
• Choose “See all”.
• Choose “Sync your profile info”.

This will sync your information with Facebook, finding your connections from there.

Conclusion

In this article, you will learn how to find contacts on Instagram. Instagram app is a connected app that gives you access to people you may know in different ways. You can find people you know in the option “Suggested for you” or “Discover People”. Additionally, you can sync your contact book and Facebook profile with Instagram to find more people. If you are a social butterfly who loves to connect to people on social media, this is for you!