Manage birthdays on your calendar

You can keep track of upcoming birthdays using Google Calendar. You can create, hide, or change the color of birthdays on your calendar.

• The birthday information syncs with your calendar when you add a person and include their birthday in Google Contacts.
• You can edit or remove birthday information about the person in the Contacts app for Android or Google Contacts.
• If you want notifications about a specific birthday, you can create a birthday event on your calendar.
• You can hide all birthdays on your calendar. This hides both manually created birthdays and those imported from Google Contacts.
• If you use Calendar on an Android device, iPhone, or iPad: You can edit birthdays that are linked to Google Contacts.
  • If you edit a birthday in Calendar, the same edits are applied in Google Contacts.
• When you delete a birthday from Calendar, it doesn’t affect the information stored in Google Contacts.
• If you turn off “Sync from Contacts” in calendar settings it deletes all synced events in Calendar which includes:
  • Birthdays
  • Important dates
  • Any changes made to these events

Add or edit birthdays in Google Contacts

Hide all birthdays on your calendar

You can hide all birthdays on your calendar. This hides both manually created birthdays and those imported from Google Contacts.

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. On the left, find "My calendars."
   • To expand it, click My calendars.
3. Hover your mouse over "Birthdays."
4. Uncheck the box.

Change the color of birthdays on your calendar

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. On the left, find "My calendars."
   • To expand it, click My calendars.
3. Hover your mouse over "Birthdays."
4. Click Options .
5. Select a new color.

Turn off Birthdays from one of your accounts

If you have multiple Google Accounts, you can hide birthdays imported from Contacts associated with one of your accounts.

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. At the top right, click Settings  Settings.
3. Under "Settings for my Calendars," click Birthdays.
4. Under "Sync from Contacts," next to the Google Accounts you want to hide, uncheck the boxes.

Tip: By default, sync is on for the Google Accounts on your calendar. If you uncheck any of the Google Accounts, birthdays imported from Contacts are removed from your Calendar but remain in Contacts.

Related resources

• Save & edit significant dates in Google Contacts
• Change your Calendar settings
• Use color labels to track calendar entries