How to Add Birthdays to an iPhone Calendar

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This wikiHow teaches you how to see your contacts’ birthdays in the iPhone Calendar app.

Adding Birthdays to Calendar (iPhone)

  1. Open your iPhone’s Contacts app.
  2. Tap a contact and tap Edit on their page.
  3. Tap + add birthday .
  4. Select the person’s birthday and tap Done .
  5. Open your iPhone’s Calendar app.
  6. Tap Calendars at the bottom of the screen.
  7. Add a checkmark next to Birthdays and tap Done .
1

Open the Contacts app.

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  1. Start by tapping the gray address book icon with multicolored tabs. You’ll usually find it on the home screen.
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2

Select a contact.

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  1. This opens the contact’s details.
    • If the person is not one of your phone contacts, you’ll have to add them first.
3

Tap "Edit" on the contact.

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  1. Now you can edit all details of the contact.
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4

Tap "+ add birthday."

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  1. The date scroll will appear at the bottom of the screen.
5

Enter the person's birthdate.

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  1. Swipe down on the day, month, and year until the correct date appears in black at the center of the scroll.
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6

Tap "Done" to save your changes.

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  1. This saves this contact’s birthday.
7

Open your calendar.

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  1. It’s the white icon with the current date inside.
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8

Enable the Birthdays calendar.

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  1. To enable the calendar:
    • Tap Calendars at the bottom.
    • Add a checkmark next to "Birthdays." If there’s a check mark in its radio button, that means your contacts’ birthdays are set to appear in the calendar. If not, tap the radio button to add one.
9

Tap "Done."

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  1. The contact’s birthday now appears on the calendar. You can verify by going to the date in the calendar—there will be a little present icon to indicate that it’s the person’s birthday.
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      1. Open Contacts .
      2. Tap a Contact .
      3. Tap Edit .
      4. Tap + add birthday .
      5. Enter the date and tap Done .
      6. Open the Calendar .
      7. Tap Calendars .
      8. Select Birthdays and tap Done .

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