Unlike Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg's social network does not offer the functionality to manage two Facebook accounts from the same Android smartphone. Fortunately, we can easily get around this restriction. In this tutorial you will learn how to create copies of the same application in order to use multiple Facebook accounts on your phone..
Multi-account management on Facebook
Each month, Facebook enriches its social network with new more or less useful functions. Some are kept, others eliminated. But still nothing regarding multi-accounts. However, it has appeared on two other home products namely Instagram and Messenger.
Until now those who wanted to manage several Facebook accounts (pros or personal) had no other choice than to log out and re-enter the credentials each time to switch from one account to another. It works perfectly but must admit it is long and painful. Not easy when you want to manage multiple Facebook profiles on a smartphone ..
Clone Facebook application
To get around this restriction, the ideal solution would be to install two Facebook applications on the same phone. This is impossible on Android. But how we are going to see it right away is partly true.
Indeed, there are free software on the Play Store capable of virtually cloning an application installed on an Android device. This technique is also very effective when an application does not offer multi-user mode..
Make a copy of the Facebook app with App Cloner
We will now see how to create a copy of another application and then enter the identifiers of the second profile in order to access two different accounts from the same smartphone.
- Launch the Play Store on your mobile
- Find the App Cloner app or click on this link to download it
- During the first startup, a dialog box will appear and briefly remind you of the possibilities of the software
- Click on the tab Installed applications
- Select the application you want to duplicate from the list
- In our example we will choose Facebook
- Press the change icon color button to give the shortcut a new color
- This function is very useful for differentiating between the clone and the original.
- Then click on the blue icon to start copying your app
Now you just have to open the application drawer of your mobile and launch the new Facebook application that you have just duplicated. During the first start it will ask you to enter the identifiers of your account. Now you can now manage two Facebook accounts from the same phone.
Important detail, App Cloner is not able to duplicate all the applications installed on your mobile and in particular those using a Google account (Maps, Play Store, Chrome, YouTube etc.). You will find the list of applications that can be duplicated on its description sheet on the Play Store site.
The free version allows only one copy per application. The Premium version (3.99 euros) adds password protection, multi-window support, automatic cache cleaning, the possibility of installing the app on an SD card as well as various other options.