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 do these actions for manually created birthdays, but not for birthdays imported from Google Contacts:
  • Turn on notifications.
  • Delete them.
  • Add individual colors.
• You can hide all birthdays on your calendar. This hides both manually created birthdays and those imported from Google Contacts.

Add or edit birthdays in Google Contacts

Hide all birthdays on your calendar

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Calendar app .
2. At the top left, tap Menu .
3. To the left of “Birthdays,” tap the box.

Tip: Calendars with an empty box are already hidden from your calendar.

Turn off birthdays from one of your accounts

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

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Calendar app .
2. At the top left, tap Menu Settings.
3. Tap Birthdays.
4. To hide an account, turn off Sync from Contacts.

Change the color of birthdays on your calendar

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Calendar app .
2. At the top left, tap Menu Settings.
3. Tap Birthdays.
4. Select a new color.

Related resources

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