I want iphone and ipad to NOT announce Happy Birthday on MY birthday.

I agree with Lynneeve - In order to use my iPhone contact list, and have it show the birthday of others in my list, I have the Bday calendar activated.

I neither need nor want my calendar to display MY birthday, but Apple displays it.

Getting snide about how she set up her tools without explaining how she could adjust them is unhelpful.

Lynneeve - l did this and I think it may solve your issue. Go to Contact list > Your contact. Edit>Delete your birthday, then save and close the contact list. If you had your calendar open, close>reopen it. Did your birthday go away?

When you tap on it you get haptic touches and balloons moving upwards. It is not from social networking it is from Apple as I have my birthdate in my contact card. If you remove it from there it does not appear.

Could you explain the context in a little more detail, as it would seme somebody else has your passcode?

Disabling viewing of the birthday calendar in the calendar settings makes the marked date go away.

If you have more than one birthday calendar, uncheck each.

For the notification: Settings > Calendar > Default Alert Times > Birthdays > None

You need to remove your birthday from your contact card. Just edit your own contact card, delete your birthday, and it won’t show. But also….I’d maybe ask people to respect my personal space because they have to be looking directly at your phone to see your birthday on it. Unless you are saying it is somehow announcing it out loud (as in Siri says “Happy Birthday” or something). I get that you for whatever reason don’t want anyone including anyone you are comfortable enough to let look intently at your phone while you are using it to know it’s your birthday but your iPhone is only displaying it in the calendar because you at some point added it to your contact card not realizing that it would show every year it’s your birthday just like it does for any other contact you have their birthday on. Unless I’m completely misunderstanding what’s happening with your phone this should fix your issue and put you back at ease.

What do you mean by it announced your birthday and wished you a happy birthday? All I got was a calendar entry that said it was my 72nd birthday, no well wishes or anything. My watch did say Happy Birthday, which I think is a nice touch, but nothing on my iPad or iPhone.

If you go to your “Me” contact card and remove your birthdate it should stop doing this.

You may not have created/edited a contact card for yourself, but when your phone was first set up, your account name, phone number and other info associated with your account with your CARRIER was preloaded. You can edit it! (Even add a profile picture, etc. if you choose. )

Your calendar app draws info from your contact list if you haven’t dis-enabled that in settings (default is ON I think.)

Is this the actual Apple Calendar you are using or a 3rd party one? My Apple calendar has never shown “Happy Birthday” for my date….it shows my name as it is on my contact card and that it’s my birthday exactly the same as it does for any other one. But 3rd party calendars like the Facebook one may show that.

As was pointed out above you should have a My Card contact entry. It would be created when you set up your iPhone.

If your iPhone is a managed device by either your employer or your school, or you have an Exchange work email account then your birthday is being picked up from there. It cannot be picked up from your account information with your Apple ID, that is blocked.

KaeBFly wrote:

Is this the actual Apple Calendar you are using or a 3rd party one? My Apple calendar has never shown “Happy Birthday” for my date….it shows my name as it is on my contact card and that it’s my birthday exactly the same as it does for any other one. But 3rd party calendars like the Facebook one may show that.

Really good point. I’ve never known any iPhone to announce anyone’s birthday, not even my own, but its the sort of thing many social networking apps are likely to do.

The date of birth in your Apple ID account is not used for anything other than to verify your identity and your age. It is not used to announce your birthday. If it is announcing your birthday that information is in your profile in Contacts.

Change your device passcode, reset and retriain or remove Touch ID or Face ID, and don’t offer further access to others.

As for the specific case, log feedback with Apple: Product Feedback - Apple

Should you go exploring to seek why a product you have set up yourself

continues to act exactly as you've set it up; then an answer would appear.

When you set up the device or computer, those dates are Private

unless otherwise chosen by you; an 'admin user' is you within iOS.

Advice to reset, or change deeper preferences or settings, is spot-on.

+ Thank MrHoffman.!