How to share Birthdays from My Calendar that come from My Contacts with others.

I want to share birthdays of people in my contacts list with my spouse and show them in our mutual calendars. I primarily use Contacts on the Mac, but Contacts replicates via iCloud to my iPad and iPhone. This is an aggravating concern, as I keep the Grandchildren's and other important Birthdays on my Mac Calendar and she cannot see these dates.

Posted on Oct 3, 2023 1:14 AM

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Unfortunately the options are limited. Birthdays is a special calendar in the Other section that draws its content from Contacts and it cannot be shared.


One option I see is to export its content (from File menu), then create a new Calendar in the iCloud section, import the content you just saved, and share that calendar. You can hide that calendar so you don't see duplicates.


The disadvantage of course is that it's not updated automatically as you add or remove birthdays in Contacts, so you'd have to do a periodic manual refresh.

Posted on Oct 3, 2023 9:10 AM

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Oct 3, 2023 9:10 AM in response to Tom_Earnest

Unfortunately the options are limited. Birthdays is a special calendar in the Other section that draws its content from Contacts and it cannot be shared.


One option I see is to export its content (from File menu), then create a new Calendar in the iCloud section, import the content you just saved, and share that calendar. You can hide that calendar so you don't see duplicates.


The disadvantage of course is that it's not updated automatically as you add or remove birthdays in Contacts, so you'd have to do a periodic manual refresh.

How to share Birthdays from My Calendar that come from My Contacts with others.

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