Get rid of Facebook birthdays from calendar iOS 8.1

@phil1992

Open settings and then choose 'Facebook'.

Then under "Allow These Apps to Use Your Account" turn Calendar off. Birthdays will be gone but so will your events.

Alternative:

Just disable both Calender and Contacts

1: Settings

2:Notifications

3:scroll down to Facebook

4:Turn Badge App Icon switch to 'Off'

Go into the Calendar app. At the bottom center, touch where it says "Calendars." There may be TWO different settings for Birthdays. See screenshot below. Try unchecking each one and see if you get the desired outcome.

Basic Troubleshooting Steps when all else fails

- Quit the App by opening multi-tasking bar, and swiping the App upward to make it disappear. (For iOS 6 older, hold down the icon for the App for about 3-5 seconds, and then tap the red circle with the white minus sign.)

- Relaunch the App and try again.

- Restart the device. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430

- Reset the device. (Same article as above.)

- Reset All Settings (Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings)

- Restore from backup. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766 (If you don't have a backup, make one now, then skip to the next step.)

- Restore as new device. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4137
For this step, do not re-download ANYTHING, and do not sign into your Apple ID.

- Test the issue after each step. If the last one does not resolve the issue, it is likely a hardware problem.

Unchecking "Birthdays" doesn't delete them, it just hides them. You will still get notifications for FB birthdays.

This was helpful! I selected my Facebook account, which led me to iCloud settings for mail, contacts, calendar, etc. There I unchecked the boxes of those apps I did not want Facebook communicating with any longer, and it worked!

Go to Calendar > Calendars, and disable Facebook Birthdays.