Manage birthdays on your calendar

Create a birthday event on your calendar

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Calendar app .
2. At the bottom right, tap Create   Event.
3. At the top, swipe to and select Birthday.
4. Add a name and birth date.
   • Tip: You receive a reminder notification one week before, and on the day of the birthday.
     • To remove an existing notification, next to it, tap Remove .
     • To add other notifications, tap Add notification.
5. At the top right, tap Save.

Hide all birthdays on your calendar

1. On your Android phone or tablet, 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 Android phone or tablet, 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

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 Android phone or tablet, open the Google Calendar app .
2. At the top left, tap Menu Settings.
3. Tap Birthdays.
4. Select a new color.