How to add birthdays on iPhone calendar

If you set up birthdays in Google Contacts, those birthdays are added to your Google Calendar automatically when you sync Google Calendar with Google Contacts. In this guide, we show you how to add birthdays to Google Calendar on a desktop browser, just as you would any other event.

How to Add the Birthdays Calendar in Google Calendar

Enabling the Birthdays calendar in Google Calendar is quick and painless.

1. Open Google Calendar.

   
   

2. In the upper-left corner, select the hamburger menu. If needed, select the My calendars drop-down arrow to expand this section.

   If the upper-left menu is already open, when you select the hamburger menu, it will close. If the menu closes, just click it again to reopen it.

   
   

3. Select Birthdays to enable it.

   
   

   If you don't see a Birthdays option, select Contacts.

4. Birthdays from your Google Contacts should now appear in Google Calendar.

   Unlike other calendars, the Birthdays calendar cannot be set up to send notifications. If you want birthday reminders in Google Calendar, copy the individual birthdays to a personal calendar, then configure notifications there.

FAQ

• How do I add a birthday to my Google Calendar?

  Add someone to your Google Contacts to automatically add their birthday to your calendar.

• How do I remove a birthday from my Google Calendar?

  You can remove a contact's birthday from your calendar by deleting the contact completely. But if you want to get rid of the birthday without removing the contact, go to your Google Contacts and select the Pencil icon next to their name followed by Show More. Select the X next to their Birthday (on the right) to remove it, then Save.

  Apple Calendar for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and iCloud.com doesn’t just keep track of all your events and appointments in one place but shows the birthdays of your friends and contacts as well. Here’s how to set up birthdays in the Calendar app on your Apple devices.

  

  Apple Calendar includes a birthday calendar that can display all birthdays that you have in iCloud Contacts. This special calendar also shows any birthdays for your Facebook friends and Google contacts, provided the app is set to use calendars from those accounts.

  Not only will people’s birthdays show up on your calendar, the Calendar app even tells you how old they are and notifies you about their birthday. Here’s how to set up and use Apple Calendar birthdays on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and iCloud.com.

  How to turn on Apple Calendar birthdays

  As the stock Calendar app is available on iOS across iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, as well as for your Mac and as a web app on iCloud.com, we’re going to cover each platform separately.

  iPhone and iPad

  To show or hide the Birthdays calendar on an iPhone or iPad, do the following:

  1) Open the Apple Calendar app.

  2) Tap Calendars at the bottom of the interface.

  3) Tick the checkbox next to Birthdays underneath the Other heading.

  

  4) Tap Done.

  Doing so will include birthdays from Contacts with your events. As you can see for yourself, additional calendars like US Holidays are easy to set up and great for staying organized.

  

  In order to hide people’s birthdays from your calendar, repeat the aforementioned step-by-step instructions, but untick the box next to Birthdays.

  Any contacts that have a birthday added to their contact card in the Contacts app show up on your calendar marked with a little icon denoting a birthday present.

  The Calendar app even tells you how old your friends are.

  To set when birthday notifications should fire off, tap Settings → Calendar → Default Alert Times → Birthdays and choose a value, or tap None to disable birthday alerts in your browser.

  

  Mac

  To show or hide the Birthdays calendar on your Mac, do the following:

  1) Open the Apple Calendar app on your Mac.

  2) In your calendar list, tick the box next to Birthdays underneath the Other heading.

  

  Tip: If you don’t see the calendar list, choose Show Calendar List from the View menu.

  You can hide people’s birthdays from your calendar at any time by unticking the box.

  To set when birthday alerts appear on your Mac, choose Preferences from the Calendar menu, click the Alerts tab, select the popup menu next to Birthdays, then make your selection.

  

  Optionally, tick the box next to “Use these default alerts on only this computer” if you’d like to have separate alert times for events, all-day events, and birthdays on each device.

  iCloud.com

  To show or hide the Birthdays calendar on iCloud.com, do the following:

  1) Log in with your Apple ID at iCloud.com using your desktop browser.

  2) Click the Calendar icon or visit the link icloud.com/calendar.

  

  3) Click the cog icon in the sidebar, then choose Preferences.

  

  4) In the General pane, tick the box next to Show Birthdays calendar.

  

  5) Click Save.

  6) Click Birthdays in the sidebar to show it.

  

  Tip: If you don’t see the sidebar, click the icon next to Day, Week, and Month at the bottom.

  Got a message saying it might take a few moments to load and show the Birthday calendar? Don’t panic; that’s normal behavior for the web app. Refresh the web page after a minute.

  

  To make the most out of the Birthday calendar, be sure that your friends have their birthday saved within their contact information in the Apple Contacts app, as outlined further below.

  Adding birthdays to contacts

  To add, remove, or update the birthday information of a contact:

  1) Open Contacts on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or via iCloud.com.

  2) Navigate to a contact whose birthday you’d like to add, and choose Edit.

  3) On iPhone and iPad, tap the field add birthday on the contact card. On iCloud Contacts, click the option Add Field at the bottom of the interface and choose Birthday from the popup menu. On your Mac, click the field Birthday.

  

  4) Add or update your friend’s birthday and choose Done to save the changes.

  All birthdays saved in the Contacts app will show up on your calendar. If you add Facebook and Google accounts to your iPhone or iPad, the birthdays of your Facebook friends and Google contacts will be displayed on your calendar airside birthdays for iCloud Contacts.

  Updated birthday information may not instantly show up on your calendar.

  

  That’s because it takes time to synchronize your changes through iCloud to all of your devices.

  If you don’t want to know when your friends’ birthdays are coming up, disable Apple Calendar birthdays. I love seeing these notifications because I always forget people’s birthdays.

  iCloud Calendar also informs you that any changes in Contacts will be reflected in the web app within one hour. In an old support document, however, Apple stated that changes made in iCloud Contacts are reflected in iCloud Calendar within a day.

  How do I put Birthdays on my iPhone Calendar?

  Calendar includes a special Birthdays calendar that can display all the birthdays you have saved in iCloud Contacts. in the bottom left-hand corner, then choose Settings. In the General pane, select “Show Birthdays calendar”, then click Save.

  Why are Birthdays not showing up on my iPhone Calendar?

  1) Open the Apple Calendar app. 2) Tap Calendars at the bottom of the interface. 3) Tick the checkbox next to Birthdays underneath the Other heading. 4) Tap Done.

  How do I put Birthdays on my Calendar?

  How to Add the Birthdays Calendar in Google Calendar.

  Open Google Calendar..

  In the upper-left corner, select the hamburger menu. If needed, select the My calendars drop-down arrow to expand this section. ... .

  Select Birthdays to enable it. ... .

  Birthdays from your Google Contacts should now appear in Google Calendar..

  How do I add Contacts Birthdays to Calendar?

  Click Add Calendar > Browse calendars of interest, and check the box called Your Contacts. The new calendar named Contacts/Birthdays will then be shown under "settings for my calendars".