Show birthdays in Calendar

[major dickison]

I'd like to see my contacts' birthdays in my iPhone's calendar. Can someone please show me how to do this? Thanks much!

[lionheartednyhc]

Yeah, its easy but I just figured it out the other day and was amazed.

Ical - Preferances - Show birthdays

(this is on your comp, not phone)

Coupled with Fex (syncs contact info from facebook) its awesome

[GadgetGuru72]

The prior response assumes you have a Mac.

What are you sync'ing with? If you sync with Outlook, there is a setting that puts all your contacts birthdays on the calendar.

Bottom line, regarding of Mac or PC, you have to do this through the computer. There is no way on the iPhone to add birthdays to your calendar.

[major dickison]

Thanks for the response. My computer is a PC and I sync my iPhone with the contacts in my Outlook. Can you please show me how to do this or point me to a link that does? Thank you so much!

[Rich]

It should be as easy as entering the birth dates for all of your contacts. Outlook will automatically create an all-day event in your calendar on the day in question.

To add a birthday, open a contact and click on the Details tab at the top of the screen. You should see a Birthday field.

[major dickison]

The birthdays have already been added to my Outlook contacts. And when I synced my iTunes with my Outlook, the birthdays appear in my iPhone's contact. However, they are not showing up in my iPhone's calendar. Is there another step that I missed?

[GadgetGuru72]

Originally Posted by major dickison

The birthdays have already been added to my Outlook contacts. And when I synced my iTunes with my Outlook, the birthdays appear in my iPhone's contact. However, they are not showing up in my iPhone's calendar. Is there another step that I missed?

Did you enter the birthdays in Outlook, or did you enter them on your iPhone?

If you enter the birthday in Outlook, it should add the birthday to your calendar automatically.

I have noticed that if you enter the birthday on your iPhone and then sync with Outlook, it does not always automatically add the birthday to the calendar.

Try this: go into Outlook and pick a contact. Open the contact, click on the birthday field as if you were going to change it, close out, and see if it added the birthday to the calendar. If that works, you may have to go through all your contact manually like that.

Otherwise, if that doesn't work, I'm not really sure what else to suggest. I originally thought there was a setting in Outlook for this, but there is not. It's supposed to happen automatically.

[major dickison]

The birthdays were entered in my Outlook.

I'll do what you suggested. Thanks!