If you’ve ever tried to find someone on Facebook, you know that it can be a challenge.
With billions of users, you rarely run into a name with just one search result.
And if you’re looking for someone with a common name, you could face hundreds of results. Spotting the person you want could take hours!
But if you have a phone number, then you might have a shortcut.
Let’s see how to find a Facebook account with a phone number – followed by some workarounds to try if you run into obstacles.
The process for finding a business on Facebook if you have their phone number is a simple one.
In this case, I planned to visit a restaurant and wanted to see if their daily specials were posted on Facebook.
Unfortunately, at this time it appears that people, or what Facebook calls personal profiles, are no longer returned in the search results. It’s worth a try though, since Facebook changes all the time!
If you can’t find a person by phone number, I have a couple tricks for you to use that number to narrow down your search, so keep reading.
Let’s look at the basic process on a browser first.
It works the same on computer, tablet, or phone browsers:
Head to facebook.com and log in, if you aren’t already.
Click the search bar at the top of the screen.
Add the phone number of the account you’re searching for and hit return.
Be sure to include the area code to increase your chances of success. But don’t worry about formatting. You can just type the whole number without any dashes.
If the phone number is associated with a Facebook account, you should see the correct result showing at the top of the page. In my search, Karen’s Cafe & Catering came out at the top of the All tab, as well as the Pages and Places tabs.
You can then click the search result and check out the Facebook Page.
The process on a mobile app is a little different, but works the same on both the Google and iOS app versions.
Open the Facebook app.
Tap the looking glass search icon in the top right corner.
Add the phone number as a series of digits with no breaks or formatting, and include the area code.
Hit search, and you should get the result you wanted at the top of the page.
You can then follow the search result to find the business’s Facebook Page. You can see below that I got the exact same results in the FB app as I did in a browser.
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