Disable Facebook birthday notifications

Open up your Calendar app and you'll see 'Birthdays' listed under subscriptions in the Calendar list. Delete this subscription completely to remove the notifications.

If you can't see the Calendar list, click View > Show Calendar List

Turning off the subscriptions stops birthdays in your Address Book from showing up. You can also go into Calendar options, and under alerts, you can turn off birthday alerts.

Open Calendar.

Choose Calendar->Preferences from the top menu (Command + ,).

Uncheck the 'Show Birthdays Calendar' option.

Voila!

I'm having the same problem too, except i've went through all the options that have been listed on here and they still pop up. I have went into preferences and disabled everything for birthdays, i unchecked every box i need to but they still show up.

I have been trying to solve this problem for months.

I have unticked 'Birthday Calendar' in my Calendar app.

There is an entry for 'Birthdays' in the Calendar app too but when I try to delete it it is greyed out and can't be deleted

I have set birthday alerts to 'none' in the main settings for mail, contacts, calendars

I'm guessing I need to remove the 'Birthdays' entry within the calendar app but as it won't let me delete it I don't know what to do.

Any ideas? It's getting incredibly annoying.

Thanks.

Hi Simon - I think I might have just figured it out. Go into settings, and notification center, and calendar. At the top, where it says 'alert style' click none.

I haven't tested this yet, I was actually googling to find an answer to this horridly annoying problem......I hope it works!

Heather

Hi all

I have tried everything above and I still keep getting notifications. It is very annoying. Help!!!

Thanks

Stacey

iOS Devices:

its this easy. i think it all applies to all birthday.

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/disabling-birthday-reminders- from-facebook-friends/

Hi - no, I've tried this but I still get notifications

hi StaceyD-78,

where do you get the birthday notifications, on both iOS and OSX?

for iOS, if you dont want any of the notifications, on notification center, you can disable it.

http://www.imore.com/how-customize-notification-center-alerts-your-iphone-and-ip ad

have you ever tried this one out, this is what i meant btw,

StaceyD-78?

I had the same issue on my macbook and just changed it to no longer pop up for every birthday the day prior. Open your calendar app and choose "Calendar" (top left in the upper menu bar) then "Preferences." A pop up box will come up and choose "Advanced." When there, you'll see an option to choose which calendar account you'd like to edit (i.e. iCloud, etc.) and you'll have the option to "none," "on day of event at 9am," etc. If you choose "none" it should stop all birthday notifications from popping up in the future.

Try the solution from AUSTraveler at this link:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3354795

I've been having the problem as well, which just a slight difference. I have turned off all notifications and alerts for Birthdays. I've unchecked the "birthday calendar", and even though it's not checked, I've changed the alerts to none. It seems to work for a few days, then all of a sudden the calendar has reverted back to being checked, and sending alerts. Is there a way to delete the "birthday" calendar from "my calendars." I don't need my phone to make noise and alert me when some person on facebook has a birthday.