How do I get rid of random Birthdays on my iPhone Calendar?

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This wikiHow teaches you how to see your contacts’ birthdays in the iPhone Calendar app.

Steps

1. You can add new birthdays to your calendar in your iPhone's Contacts app. Start by tapping the gray address book icon with multicolored tabs. You’ll usually find it on the home screen.

1. Tap the contact whose birthday you want to add. This opens the contact’s details.

   • If the person is not one of your phone contacts, you’ll have to add them first.

1. You'll see Edit at the top-right corner. Now you can edit all details of the contact.

1. You might have to scroll down a little bit to see this option. The date scroll will appear at the bottom of the screen.

1. Select the person’s birth date from the scrolls. Swipe down on the day, month, and year until the correct date appears in black at the center of the scroll.

1. Tap Done at the top-right corner. The contact’s birthday now appears on the calendar. You can verify by going to the date in the calendar—there will be a little present icon to indicate that it’s the person’s birthday.

   Birthdays and holidays are automatically added to your calendar so you never miss an opportunity to celebrate. You can also add other calendars, such as phases of the moon and sports team schedules.

   Birthdays

   Hide birthdays from your calendar

   Turn off birthdays from one of your accounts

   If you have multiple accounts, you can also choose to hide birthdays associated with one of your accounts.

   1. Open the Google Calendar app
      
      .
   2. At the top left, tap Menu
      
       
      
       Settings.
   3. Under "More," tap Birthdays.
   4. Turn off Contacts for the account you want to hide.

   Hide all birthdays

   1. Open the Google Calendar app
      
      .
   2. At the top left, tap Menu .
   3. Tap Birthdays. Calendars with an empty box next to them are hidden.
   Edit or remove individual birthdays

   Birthdays come from details in your Google Contacts.

   Tip: If the person is in your Google Contacts, you can edit or remove the person's birthday from the People or Contacts app on your phone, or from google.com/contacts.

   There’s nothing worse than forgetting the birthday of someone you care about. To ensure that you see those important days, you can add birthdays to Google Calendar. If you decide to hide them or remove one later, it’s just as simple.

   Note: Per Google, you currently can’t add birthdays from Facebook to Google Calendar.

   Table of Contents

   Add Birthdays to Google Contacts
   Add Birthdays to Google Calendar
   Hide Birthdays from Google Calendar
   Remove Birthdays from Google Calendar
   

   Add Birthdays to Google Contacts

   The birthdays that you see in Google Calendar are for your Google Contacts. So to begin, make sure that the contacts you want to show up on your calendar are in your Google Contacts with birthdays.

   Head to Google Contacts and add a new contact by clicking “Create Contact” at the top left. To edit an existing contact, click the pencil icon to the right of their name in the list.

   

   Below the basic information for your contact, click “Show More.”

   

   Then, enter their date of birth in the Birthday field.

   

   Click “Save” at the top right of the contact card.

   RELATED: How to Add Birthdays to Contacts on iPhone

   Add Birthdays to Google Calendar

   When you’re ready to display your contacts’ birthdays, visit Google Calendar and sign in. Expand “My Calendars” on the left side and check the box for Contacts. You should then see the birthdays for your Google Contacts display along with a birthday cake icon.

   

   To add birthdays to the Google Calendar app on your mobile device, open the app. Then, tap the menu icon at the top left and check the box for Birthdays.

   

   Hide Birthdays from Google Calendar

   To hide birthdays from your Google Calendar, do the reverse of the above. In Google Calendar on the web, expand My Calendars on the left side and uncheck the box for Contacts. You should see the birthdays disappear from view.

   

   On your mobile device, tap the menu icon at the top left and uncheck the box for Birthdays. Your contacts’ birthdays should vanish.

   

   Remove Birthdays from Google Calendar

   You might have certain contacts whose birthdays you don’t want to see on your Google Calendar. As previously mentioned, this detail comes from the person’s contact card in Google Contacts. So, to remove their birthday from your calendar, you must remove it from their contact card.

   Visit Google Contacts, click the pencil icon to edit the contact, and click “Show More” on their card. Click the X to the right of their date of birth in the Birthday field and click “Save” at the top right.

   

   To make sure that you remember those birthdays, learn how to get birthday reminders from Google Assistant.

   Why are people's birthdays in my calendar?

   Birthdays come from details in your Google Contacts. Tip: If the person is in your Google Contacts, you can edit or remove the person's birthday from the People or Contacts app on your phone, or from google.com/contacts. Settings.

   How do I delete duplicate birthdays on my calendar?

   Click the Subject column heading to arrange all the calendar items by subject. Hold down CTRL while you click each duplicate calendar item in the list. When you have selected all of the duplicate calendar items, press DELETE.

   How do I remove synced birthdays from Apple calendar?

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   Select the gear icon in Google Calendar..

   Choose Settings..

   Go to Calendar..

   Unsubscribe from “Friends' Birthdays.”.

   Select the gear icon again and choose Sync with mobile device so synchronize the changes..