WeChat was deleted without knowing it: This app is recommended for you to clear invalid friends with one click

A few days ago, I wanted to send a group message, only to find that the number of friends on WeChat had almost exceeded 300 without me noticing.

Although there are many people in the address book, there are many contacts that can be deleted. So it’s time to clean up the WeChat address book. Then let’s take a look at how to quickly clean up the address book and how to detect friends who have been deleted by the other party.

▲ Figure 1 More and more people

Contacts management in WeChat PC version

Without further ado, I started cleaning up my WeChat contacts. When cleaning up my contacts, I recommend using the WeChat PC version, which has a contact management tool that is much easier to use than on a mobile phone. Open WeChat PC version → Contacts → Contact Management.

▲ Figure 2 Address Book Management

In the address book management tool, you can filter friends based on friend permissions, tags, and recent groups. You can also see the friend's notes, tags, and friend permission information at a glance in the friend list details. The address book management tool supports batch operations, and you can delete friends in batches. In fact, adding notes and tags when adding friends is the best way, but sometimes you add friends in a hurry and forget about it. If you add too many friends, it will cause confusion in the address book.

Although the address book management tool has many filtering conditions, the editor still recommends that WeChat officials add a "how long no contact" filtering condition so that users can quickly find contacts who have been silent for a long time.

▲ Figure 3 Screening conditions

Find friends who have been deleted by the other party

Deleting friends in WeChat is not like deleting in both directions in QQ. Even if the other party deletes you in WeChat, he/she still exists in your address book. You will not know that the other party has deleted you until you send a message. Therefore, many netizens want to know which of their WeChat friends have deleted them.

Where there is demand, there is supply, so many tools for detecting friends' status have emerged, and a lot of malicious software has also been mixed in to steal user privacy, so you must be extremely cautious when using such apps.

Recently, developer @李跳跳, who launched the app that helps users skip the splash screen ads, launched a new app - "Real Friends", which is designed to help users detect friends in the address book who have been deleted by the other party.

▲ Figure 4 Real Friends App

The working principle of the Real Friends App is relatively simple, which is to use the barrier-free function of the Android system. Yes, the Real Friends App currently only supports the Android system. After giving the Real Friends App relevant permissions, it will simulate user operations and transfer money to friends one by one. When the other party has deleted or blocked you, the transfer will go wrong, and then make a judgment. Of course, it is not a real transfer operation, and no cents will be deducted.

▲ Figure 5 Granting accessibility permissions

The use of the Real Friends App is very simple. After installing the Real Friends App, you must first give it accessibility permissions, then click Start Detection on the main interface, and it will start a transfer test between friends one by one, and get the test results based on the transfer results. It takes a few seconds for each friend, so if you have many friends, you have to wait patiently.

After the detection is completed, the Real Friends App will give a detection report, which classifies the user's friends into "normal" and "abnormal". We can click on abnormal friends to see the status of related friends, including those who have been deleted, those in other situations, and those who have been blacklisted. After the detection, we can deal with these abnormal friends as needed.

▲ Figure 6 Abnormal friends

After the detection is completed, the Real Friends App can be retired.

Summarize

So, do you need to use the Real Friends App? Although it is relatively safe, if you value privacy, don't use it. In addition, even if you want to use it, please go to the author's official WeChat account to download it, and don't rely on searching to find apps that have been added to people's profiles.