Contact's Birthday does not show up in Calendar!

jwhcowan · 08-14-2007, 12:46 PM

It seems strange that the Contacts field 'Birthday' does not show up in the Calendar - how nice would that have been!

Or at least a way to see all Birthday's in one view - like a Calendar list.

Kev1000000 · 08-14-2007, 01:13 PM

I completely agree.

Send this request to apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

jwhcowan · 08-14-2007, 01:20 PM

Thanks Kev1000000

I sent it on to apple feedback.

insocal · 08-14-2007, 02:45 PM

There's an OPTION in CONTACTS when in EDIT mode to ADD FIELD and BIRTHDAY is an OPTION.

Or you can add it in ADDRESS BOOK and it will SYNC over.

Those are the things I do and I've had no problem.

Good Luck!

jwhcowan · 08-14-2007, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by insocal

There's an OPTION in CONTACTS when in EDIT mode to ADD FIELD and BIRTHDAY is an OPTION.

Or you can add it in ADDRESS BOOK and it will SYNC over.

Those are the things I do and I've had no problem.

Good Luck!

I think you missed the point here. I have the information in the contacts BIRTHDAY field on the iPhone. What I would expect is that the information would then be shown in the Calendar application on that specified day!

How would you ever know it was somebody's birthday without opening up their contact details to check????

chartno3 · 08-14-2007, 04:16 PM

There is a way to get your contact's birthday's to show up in the calendar, but you have to do it through iCal on your Mac. Go to preferences in iCal, and under "General", check mark "Show Birthdays Calendar".

Not sure how this would work for those on Windows.

macgirl · 08-14-2007, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by chartno3

There is a way to get your contact's birthday's to show up in the calendar, but you have to do it through iCal on your Mac. Go to preferences in iCal, and under "General", check mark "Show Birthdays Calendar".

Not sure how this would work for those on Windows.

yep, this totally works. if i add a birthday to a contact on my iphone, it will show up in the calendar after i sync it to ical on my mac.

it's a shame it's not automatic on the iphone's calendar without the need to sync first...

Alexandre · 05-21-2008, 06:55 PM

Does anyone know how to do the same in Windows? I have all my contacts with the birthday field created, but they just don't show up in calendar...

kiawui · 06-11-2008, 02:33 PM

I was searching the forum for a way to make the calendar show my birthday field which i painstakingly keyed into my iPhone. I am using Outlook to sync my iPhone with my contacts. One way to do it is, dont do it on your iPhone. Key in all your birthdays in Outlook and sync it. It will then show in the Calendar in iPhone.

For those who already keyed into the iPhone, fret not. Just do it again in the Outlook and sync in iTunes. When you sync, it will warn that there is a conflict. Choose Outlook and click repeat this for all similar conflict and click sync now. Voila!

Regards
Dennis

Originally Posted by jwhcowan

It seems strange that the Contacts field 'Birthday' does not show up in the Calendar - how nice would that have been!

Or at least a way to see all Birthday's in one view - like a Calendar list.

derning · 07-25-2008, 11:17 PM

This might clear things up. It seems that for some reason, Outlook Calendar will not display birthdays for people when you sync. It works just fine when you enter a contact's birthday via Outlook directly.

The horribly stupid and cumbersome solution:
- Open each contact in Outlook.
- Delete their birthday, save.
- Put their birthday back in, save.
- Rinse and repeat for every damn contact with a birthday.

Now, the birthdays will automatically show up in your Calendar, as they should.

A slightly more elegant solution:
One lady in this thread suggests downloading an Outlook plugin called "Put Anniversary in Calendar." But it costs $10 USD. Yuck. I haven't tried this plugin, so let me know if it works.

Can anyone think of a better way to do this without paying for an Outlook plugin??