Birthdays do not show up on iCloud.com/calendar. Anyone else?

I know, last week I wrote that the Apple helped me immediately. But now the issue occurs to me again.

Some birthdays are shown, some are not. Some are shown twice. Some birthdays of contacts, which I deleted, are shown, too. And so on and so on.

Just to make it clear, I never saw any birthday whatsover in my iCloud calendar. Ever.

I still have the issue in both my wife's and my iCloud accounts. We both are ussing different Macs, iPhones and iPads, and Birthdays calendar show in all 3 devises but not on iCloud.

Both accounts migrated to iCloud from their originals Macs.

I just tested creating a new contact in iCloud with its Birthday on october 27th, and it showed inmediatly on my iPhone, iPad and MacBook, but not on the iCloud calendar. And YES, "Show Birthdays Calendars" is CHECKED, and also refreshed Calendars several times.

Then I deleted the test Contact from within iCloud, and it disappeared from all devises.

In Conclusion, the issue is real and still has not been fixed by Apple.

My only difference with "k.alexander" is tha we both started from different Macs running Lion.

As in our iOS devices, the Macs see the Birthdays calendars just fine. Also changes made on iCloud.

For me if they made the birthday calander with write access instead of read only i could delete the calander events. I have the same birthday showing up twice even after I deleted the contact. Im sure they will fix this in an update but im still irked off...

Thanks,

Chris

From the iCloud calendar:

1. Click on the gear icon

2. Click on Preferences

3. Place a checkmark in the box "Show Birthdays calendar"

4. Click save

Wait 15 seconds, and all birthdays should appear.

Maybe sheilawholmes has not read all the experiences in this post. Her comment is the logical thing we have alredy done several times, with no Joy.

The first two pictures show my calendar on iCloud with "Show Birthdays Calendar" selected, and no Birthdays shown.

The last one is the same month on my Mac, with Birthdays shown. Same iCloud account by the way.

worked for me! Sorry!

No, it didn't work for me.

Been there done all that...BIRTHDAYS show on 2 iPhones, 2 iMacs, both Address Books, all syncing perfectly but no BIRTHDAYS showing up in iCloud Calendar after nearly a week. Now what Apple...Help us out here will you please?

This is exactly what I'm seeing. It's almost like the contacts were scanned once to populate the birthday calendar and not refreshed if there is already any sort of entry for that contact. There also does not appear to be any sort of scrubbing of the birthday calendar for contacts that have had their birthdate deleted from the contacts.

I wish people would read this entire thread before posting "just click on the iCloud gear, select preferences, and click Show Birthday's calendar". This is something I have done repeatedly on my own and with the Apple representative.

I used Mobile.me to sync my contacts and calendars on my iPhone 3GS to my iPad 2. I never used iTunes to sync my contacts/calendar. Birthdays, events, and contacts were working fine. When I received my iPhone 4S on 10/14, I went to the Apple store to activate it because I had read there were issues with migrating from Mobile.me to iCloud. I didn't want to risk losing my contacts since I wasn't backing it up through iTunes.

DAY 1 (10/14): Apple store migrated my Mobile.me account to iCloud. Duplicate calender events in the iPad (iPhone 4S was fine). No birthday's in my contacts or calendar on the iPad2 (again, iPhone 4S was fine).

DAY 4 (10/17): Spent over 2 hours with Apple phone support trying to resolve issue. Successfully removed duplicate calendar entries. Still birthday's appearing in iCloud or iPad2. Towards the end of the call, I WAS THE ONE who noticed the gear/preference birthday setting on iCloud. I checked the box, updated contacts, calendars, etc. Only some of the birthday's appeared on iCloud and iPad2. I've tried to manually add birthday's to the iPad2 contacts, only to discover they go to the calendar of the iPad2, but NOT iCloud. I finally had to end the conversation with Apple and go to work. We ended with the representative sending me an email with his direct contact information.

DAY 5 (10/18): Left voicemail and sent email for my "dedicated" Apple represenative. No response.

DAY 6 (10/19): Another voice mail and email. No response.

DAY 7 (10/20): Another email requesting status update. No response.

DAY 12 (10/25): Email expressing my disappointment that there has been no communication from my "dedicated" Apple representative or replacement.

So here I sit almost 2 weeks into my issue and it seems Apple could care less. Reading the other comments on this thread tells me I am not alone. I wish Apple would just acknowledge this issue and stop ignoring requests to fix it.

I am having the same problem. Show Birthday Calendars is checked, Birthdays show up in the calendar list and it's checked. I have clicked Refresh Calendars many, many times. Was at the Genius Bar last night after work, they did everything that I had tried, and still no birthdays show up on my iCloud calendar. They show up in iCal on my MacBood Pro, my iPod Touch, and my iPad. I sure wish Apple would at least acknowledge this issue and let us know if they're working on a solution. Haven't heard boo from them on this.

I had a similar issue, birthday events were duplicated at iCloud web interface. Everything was fine on my Macbooks. I tried any combination of deletion and recreation of contacts/calendars.

Now I meight have found a potential solution. Actually I cannot guarantee it works, at least my calendar is fine now:

1. Disable iCloud on all devices to disable sync

2. Delete addressbook and calendar contents at iCloud web interface

3. Disable birthdays at iCloud web interface

4. Delete directory [user]/Library/Calendars on your Macs

5. Enable iCloud

Please let me know if it worked for you as well or if it was just coincidence 🙂