Facebook photos show up in gallery?!?!

**lyssadarling22** · 12-11-2012, 12:14 PM

You can go into your gallery settings. If there's an option for "view by" you can choose to only see the albums that are from your phone. I just wish I could see Facebook and the phone albums only. The picasa albums are driving me crazy. You can only select one.

**otroguero** · 12-15-2012, 06:32 AM

Originally Posted by vaca232

Go to Settings>Accounts and Sync>"Facebook (for syncing)" and uncheck "Sync Gallery"

I don't know if this will remove the facebook albums from the gallery, or just stop updating them.

This successfully stops updating them. It does NOT remove already synced photos. I do not believe that the FB albums can be deleted at this point in time. I found "Picasa Sync" files in (internal SD) Android/data/com.sec.android.gallery.3d/cache - and CAN delete those. I cannot find FB images, however. I like my device uploading to the cloud, but dl'ing tons of pics to expensive SD space is not preferable... Please share if anyone knows where these files live.

**Prem64** · 12-18-2012, 06:45 PM

Hi as suggested by you guys, I went through settings>Account>Facebook and disabled the sync. This reclaimed 4GB back. thanks for the tips guys. However the pictures in the gallery remain. Very strange! anyway it has freed 4GB of my valuable space

**Kneedeep248** · 12-22-2012, 10:31 PM

Hi,

I am hoping that someone knows how to have the Gallery Option of "Content on this Device" be the default setting. As mention, I can choose it, but the next time I go to Gallery, it is not select and Gallery loads "EVERYTHING" which I do not want it to do.

Thanks,

**Denis Howe** · 12-26-2012, 05:20 AM

The only way I found to unsync my Facebook photos from the gallery was to delete the Facebook account off the phone. Next time I launched the Facebook app I had to login in again, at which point it asked me what I wanted to sync.

**Lala96** · 01-09-2013, 11:10 AM

For me when i go to contacts , go to the menu i removed facebook account and the photos from facebook in my gallery disappeared!

Hope this helps?:X

**Sharon Smythe** · 02-22-2013, 09:45 AM

I have had my S III since beginning of January, my first every Samsung. I absolutely love this phone BUT am irritated I cannot delete photos in the gallery which have synced with Facebook! even those many of them have been deleted in Facebook, they still show on my phone. Not happy :-(

**Saadman Salahuddin** · 02-27-2013, 12:49 PM

Remove you Facebook account first from Settings>Accounts. Then go to settings>Application manager>All>Gallery and clear your gallery cache and data. Finally, go back to settings>accounts and add your Facebook back but make sure you un-check the sync photo option. Go to your gallery and be amazed now. Thanks.

**ybcthanerd** · 02-27-2013, 03:09 PM

Go to facebook>settings> and uncheck sync photos

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**Numan Ali** · 03-22-2013, 02:31 PM

bro how do i delet this sync folders from facebook on my phone..

**Numan Ali** · 03-22-2013, 02:35 PM

every one please please tel my im in big trouble i was purchaed s3 last week everynight i charged it full like 100% when i awake in moring my battery is remaning 50 to 40 prcent on stand by its take much batteery what can i doo...when i awake my phone is hot..

**Bhawana Limbu** · 03-24-2013, 11:32 AM

i font want fb oics on my gallery.

**Bes Chua** · 04-19-2013, 07:02 PM

My problem is different from the ones posted here. I'd like to sync my Facebook albums to my phone gallery, but the option to "view facebook" is not active. Help!

**Lindsay Yeo** · 04-26-2013, 09:26 AM

relax !!!
i had this problem too ...
this is how you do

Go to Gallery >setting >Accounts > your facebook name > remove account
Go back to Facebook relog in >press dont Sync

that it.. hope it help you good luck

**rajeesh mb** · 05-01-2013, 09:46 AM

go to GALLERY and setting - then disable ''' Sync on wifi''' + unsellect all

**laurasheps** · 05-11-2013, 12:13 PM

This is what I did... and it actually worked for me.
Go to your settings, then scroll down to "Accounts" heading. There you should see "Facebook" underneath that heading. Click on it. There you should see your facebook account at the top. Click on that. Then at the bottom of the screen you will have two options: sync now and remove account.
Then just click remove account and they albums should be gone!
Here is a screen shot of what the last step should look like (except I already removed my facebook so I will use my google account as an example)

**Carltoon** · 06-06-2013, 02:42 PM

Hi.

I did have access to all my facebook photo albums in my gallery on the samsung galaxy S3. However they now no longer appear. I am not sure why. I have done all the reccomended synching etc and now have all FB friends details on contact list and planner/organiser but still no photos.

So can anyone help me, how do I get my FB photos back accessible in my gallery?

Thanks Carl