how to disable LinkedIn birthdays in calendar

I figured it out!

On your Mac, go to System Preferences. Select "Internet Accounts" - LinkedIn. At the bottom is a checked box that says enable this account. Uncheck it and Voila! No more random LinkedIn birthdays in your calendar. I also suggest in LinkedIn revoking application access to LinkedIn from your Mac OS System. To do that go to Privacy & Settings - Groups, Companies & Applications - View Your Applications - deselect your operating system.

If you do not want the LinkedIn birthdays in your calendar, disable LinkedIn in your Contacts "Preferences > Accounts". That is the only way I could prevent them from showing in my Calendar.

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I don't think there's a solution. It's either LinkedIn contacts and birthday's deactivated in calendar. Or no LinkedIn contacts and birthdays activated. The option to disable calendar syncing, as featured under Facebook for example, doesn't exist with LinkedIn in the Accounts pane of System Preferences. Also, Facebook has a dedicated section within calendars that allows to (de)activate Events and Birthdays. LinkedIn is just thrown in with "Others" and "Birthdays". Very shortsighted of Apple. But then again, the whole company isn't living up to the standards these days that we got under Steve (those around long enough should remember how he fixed Amelio's OS).

Thanks this worked perfectly for me. I just basically removed LinkedIn from my internet accounts this way it's not associated with my contacts at all.

There is an option to just turn off contacts.

1. On your mac

2. System preferences. (Press cmd and spacebar to bring up spotlight and type "Internet Accounts")

3. Find LinkedIn, then you can pick and choose what to allow.

Your personal contact birthdays won't be affected. Or at least not.

There's a "Birthdays" calendar under the "Other" category in Apple Calendar, uncheck or delete that one, that's the one LinkedIn uses.

Sorry, this is NOT a solution as it also disables LinkedIn updates in Contacts. Myself, and the poster above, want to keep LinkedIn updates and addresses in Contacts but not see birthday updates in Calendar. For Facebook there's a separate calendar for Events and Birthdays and you can disable them independently from Contacts. Not so for LinkedIn. This is an issue Apple must address.... but alas hasn't for quite a while now.

I believe unchecking this box under "Other" in iCal will also disable notification of birthdays from Facebook friends as well as a side effect.

Hi all,

I want to keep my family and friends birthday notifications in my iCal calendar, but I don't want to see all birthday notifications from my 500+ contacts in LinkedIn.

Same time I would like to keep my AddressBook/LinkedIn connection to update my contacts.

I have use time on figuring this out, but can't find the solution... please help.

Thanks, Pablo

Hi there. I was just researching this exact same (annoying) issue and came across your post. Did you ever figure out a solution?

Thanks!

Thanks so much, this worked and I was able to keep my original birthday reminders for family and friends.

Did anyone ever find a solution to this that would remove LinkedIn birthday notifications only, without disabling the LinkedIn account altogether?

I can't see any reference to LinkedIn at all in my copy of Calendar but you're right of course 😟 And yes, I do remember the return of His Steveness in the late 1990s 😎