How To Remove Contacts’ Birthdays From Google Calendar?

Forgetting someone’s birthday makes you feel bad. The truth is that the celebrant not receiving a gift, card, phone call, social media message or even an SMS from you does not speak well of how you feel about the relationship you both share. And that could ruin things.

However, if you use Google Calendar and make sure your contacts are always up to date. Google Calendar is able to add all of your contacts’ birthdays to your calendar and keep you notified on their respective birthdays when the day arrives.

Therefore, with the Calendar helping with your forgetfulness, you no longer have to bother your head about the excuse you will give to that friend when you fail to remember his or her special day, Google Calendar can take care of things. And it gets the job done seamlessly.

However, too much of anything is bad. What if you have too many friends and the birthday notifications on your device start getting exessive? You can get fed up with the persistent reminders and make up your mind to do something about it. Fortunately for you, getting rid of somebody’s birthday from your calendar is not complicated. See How To Remove Contacts’ Birthdays From Your Google Calendar?:

How Can I Remove All Birthdays From My Google Calendar?

The simplest way to stop receiving Google Calendar birthday reminders is to turn every birthday off.

  1. Launch your Google Calendar on your Personal Computer or Mac and tap “My calendars.”
  2. Tap the box close to “Birthdays” to untick it and disable birthday reminders.

Remove Contacts' Birthdays From Google Calendar

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If you are bothered about not remembering other birthdays in the future, you can simply set a reminder to re-enable birthdays as soon as the date you did not really care about has passed.

How Can I Remove Individual Birthdays From My Google Calendar?

If you want to disable reminders for just one person’s birthday, you can either delete the contract completely or edit the contact’s info in Google Contacts.

  • Head to Google Contacts and locate the contact that you want to delete.
  • Tap the contact’s name, then tap the 3 dots and choose “Delete.”

Remove Contacts' Birthdays From Google Calendar

  • To just edit a contact’s info to no longer add their birthday, head to Google Contacts.
  • Tap on the contact’s name.
  • After that, tap the pencil icon and then “X” close to the user’s birthday in the pop-up window.

 

Remove Contacts' Birthdays From Google Calendar

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  • Tap “Save” in the bottom-right corner.

That is that.

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