How to Add Friends and Contacts on Facebook Messenger

This wikiHow teaches you how to add contacts to the Facebook Messenger app. You can do this by using a phone book contact, entering a specific phone number, or scanning another Facebook Messenger user’s “Add” code. This is available on iPhone and Android versions of Facebook Messenger.

Table of Contents

Add contact in phone book

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Open Facebook Messenger. Select the Messenger app icon with a lightning bolt in the conversation bubble.

When prompted, enter your phone number and Facebook password to log in before continuing.

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Select the Home tab. This house-shaped icon is located in the bottom left corner of the screen.

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Select the “Profile” icon. It is located in the top left corner of the screen (iPhone) or the top right corner of the screen (Android).

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Select People . This option is located at the bottom center of the page.

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Synchronize phone book. If contact syncing is disabled, you’ll see a white on/off button (iPhone) or “Off” under Sync preferences (Android). Select the on/off or Sync button to activate contact sync, which will add any Messenger users in your contact list to your Messenger.

If you see a green on/off button (on iPhone) or “On” under Sync (Android), your phone contacts are already synced with Messenger.
If you’re using an iPhone, you must first allow your contacts to access Messenger. To do so, open Settings , scroll down, select Messenger , and select the white Contacts toggle to turn it on.

Add phone number

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Open Facebook Messenger. Select the Messenger app icon with a lightning bolt in the conversation bubble.

When prompted, enter your phone number and Facebook password to log in before continuing.

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Select the “People” tab. It is a cluster of horizontal lines located in the lower left corner of the screen (iPhone) or near the upper right corner of the screen (Android).

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Select + . This button is located in the top right corner of the screen (iPhone) or the bottom right corner of the screen (Android). A window will appear.

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Select Enter Phone Number (Enter phone number). This option is on the screen. A text field will appear where you can enter the phone number.

Skip this step on Android.

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Enter a phone number. Click in the text field, then use the on-screen keyboard to enter a phone number.

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Select Save . This button is located in the top right corner of the window. This step searches for the Facebook username that matches the phone number.

On Android, simply select Add contact and skip to the next step.

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Add users. Select Add to send a friend request to the person whose phone number you entered. If they agree, you’ll be able to chat with them on Facebook Messenger.

You can also send this person a message, but they will have to accept the invitation to be able to see the message.
If the phone number you entered doesn’t match the Facebook profile, you can choose Invite to Messenger to send the person an invitation to use the app.

Scan code

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Open Facebook Messenger. Select the Messenger app icon with a lightning bolt in the conversation bubble.

When prompted, enter your phone number and Facebook password to log in before continuing.

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Select People . It is a cluster of horizontal lines located in the lower left corner of the screen.

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Select Scan Code (Scan Code on iPhone) or Scan Messenger Code (Scan Messenger Code on Android). This option is located near the top corner of the screen. The code scanning screen will appear.

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Ask a friend for their code. To do so, they’ll need to open the People tab, select Scan Code , and then select the My Code tab in the top corner of the screen.

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Point your phone’s camera at the code. This code will be in the center of the circle on the phone screen.

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Select ADD ON MESSENGER (ADD TO MESSENGER). You’ll see this button near the top of the screen. This step will add that person to your Messenger contact.

Advice

By default, the Messenger contact list includes your Facebook friends. You can make friends on Facebook to add them to your Messenger list automatically.
If you add a contact they haven’t agreed to befriend yet, you can “wave” to them by selecting the Wave button to let them know that you want to chat without sending a message.

Warning

Limit adding strangers on Facebook Messenger.

Steps

Add contact in phone book

Add phone number

Scan code

Advice

Warning

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