How to Find Someone's Social Media by Phone Number

Have you ever wished you could reconnect with your childhood friends? Or maybe you once had a client you lost touch with, and now you're wondering how you might reconnect with them too?

Can you find social media accounts by phone number? Yes, you can sometimes find social media accounts by phone number, but it largely depends on the user's privacy settings and the platform's policies.

For this to work, the person must have linked their phone number to their account and explicitly allowed it to be discoverable by others. Due to increasing privacy concerns, many platforms now limit or disable this search feature by default.

Here are the common methods to find social media by phone number.

All Method at A Glance: Which One You Pick?

Methods	Free?	Accuracy	Success Rate	Ease of Use
Account Recovery		High	High	Moderate
Contacts Syncing		Moderate	Moderate	Easy
Moriarity Project		High	Moderate	Very difficult
Search Engines		Moderate	Low	Easy

How to Find Social Media by Phone Number

As you can see in the table, each method has its unique features. For the best results, I'd advise you to combine each method. Above all, ensure you use each method responsibly to avoid breaching someone's privacy. I wish you the best of luck in your search.

1Social Media Account Recovery

On platforms like Facebook and Instagram, you can attempt to recover an account using the phone number. After you input the target phone number in the recovery process, the social platform reveals the username to confirm the information. Then, you can use this information to look up the target social media account.

Here's how to search for social media by phone number: (Using Facebook as an example)

2Sync Your Contacts On Social Media

This is an easy way to start your social media lookup by phone number. Social media's recommendation algorithms are powerful.

When you sync your contacts on any social media platform, the social media platform will match the phone numbers in your contact list with the correct social profiles.

Surely, the prerequisite is the person you're looking for has linked their phone number to their account on this platform. Now, follow the steps below to find social media accounts linked to phone number: (Here we use Facebook as an instance)

3Install Moriarty Project

The Moriarty Project is a free, open-source web-based phone number investigation tool. It uses web scraping to gather data from various websites. In addition to finding the owner and social media accounts of the given phone number, it can even provide the phone number's country, time zone, and carrier.

However, installing and running the Moriarty Project isn't as easy as clicking a button. It requires tech and coding skills. But don't worry, I've streamlined the basic steps for you below:

4Search for Number on Search Engine

In some cases, search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo can be valuable tools in your search for someone's social media profiles. When you input a phone number into a search engine, it will search for any social media platforms where that number appears.

To get the best results, you can also try entering the number in quotes to search for that exact match.

FAQs about Social Media Search by Phone Number

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