Add Phone Number to Facebook Account

Add Phone Number to Facebook Account: Including your mobile phone number to your Facebook profile provides additional advantage and functionality like text message updates and activity notifications. It also helps in situations when you forget your login details and you what to retrieve or reset it. 

You might have initially register a phone number with Facebook but the number is no longer available, now you wish to change your registered phone number with Facebook so you can receive notifications and also get to reset your password easily, here is the procedures to update your Facebook phone number to the new one.

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• On your browser, open Facebook.com.
• On the Facebook’s welcome screen that opens up, login using your details.
• On the homepage of your profile, click the settings button (it looks like a gear symbol) located on the notifications tab.
• Then click the Settings option.
• On the General Accounts Settings page that opens up, select Mobile from the categories present in the left pane.
• On the Mobile Settings page, under your phones section, click the Add another mobile phone number link.
• On the Please re-enter your password box that opens up, enter your password to confirm your actions, click Submit.
• On the Activate Facebook Texts window that appears, select your country/region and your mobile carrier from the respective fields.
• Click Next to continue.
• On the new window that opens up, input the confirmation code that you will receive on your new number

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Immediately after confirming by entering the confirmation code, then your mobile phone number will be change to the new one you entered.

I hope this was helpful? Kindly share with all your friends so they won’t have to remain stuck with one phone number on Facebook.