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So, another complaint about Google Calendar: how do I remove contacts' birthdays from my calendar? I have hundreds of contacts -- almost all are coworkers and almost none of which I care that it's their birthday. Many of their birthdays show up on my Google Calendar. I don't want to remove the showing of birthdays. I want to remove the showing of individual peoples' birthdays.

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Even more so, I'm sorry to say I have contacts with friend(s) that died... I don't necessarily want to remove them from my contact list, but the (automated) birthday notification feels... unseemly... :-/

This would not be true of a manual one because it expresses the action intentionally, whereas an automated one is kinda like an awkward stranger being like hey it's their birthday today!

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Sorry to hear that, it's an eerie reminder of our mortality.

You can edit the contact, remove the birthday and add it as a note to keep the info but let it be handled in another way.

I just made a separate calendar for birthdays I do care about, since that's relatively few.

If the person appears in your Google Contacts, are you able to to clear the birthday field?

I don't want to clear the birthday field from the contact. I just neither want to be notified of it nor see it on my calendar.

So... You don't actually care but you're annoyed that Google calendar makes you choose between admitting to not caring and getting 3 birthday notifications every day that you won't do anything about and don't want to be reminded about?

Somebody's birthday is interesting info to keep.

That doesn't mean you should get a notification when it comes up.

If you have the Google Calendar app: tap on Settings in the side bar, scroll down to birthdays, tap on your email account and tick "Do not include birthdays"

That's all of them OP meant individual ones.

If you don't care about almost all of them, you should probably just make your own calendar with birthdays of people you do care about. Kinda blacklist/whitelist.

That's how I've got it - remove all birthdays, create a calendar just with people you actually care about

My GCal bday annoyance: my calendar marks 100+ birthdays on the one single day (many other birthday reminders are correct). Wonder where the data got funked along the line or if a default Birthdate got set somewhere

[snip: never mind... I read the last sentence completely backwards.]

No:

> I don't want to remove the showing of birthdays. I want to remove the showing of individual peoples' birthdays.

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