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

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

Important: This setting changes the color of all birthdays from Google Contacts. Manually created birthdays can be individually changed to different colors.

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.

Related resources

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