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This wikiHow teaches you how to see your contacts’ birthdays in the iPhone Calendar app.
Steps
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1Open the Contacts app. It’s the gray address book icon with multicolored tabs. You’ll usually find it on the home screen.
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2Tap a contact whose birthday you want to add. This opens the contact’s details.
- If the person is not one of your phone contacts, you’ll have to add them first.
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3Tap Edit. It’s at the top-right corner of the screen.
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4Scroll down and tap + add birthday. The date scroll will appear at the bottom of the screen.
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5Select the person’s birth date. Swipe down on the day, month, and year until the correct date appears in black at the center of the scroll.
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6Tap Done. It’s at the top-right corner of the screen. This saves this contact’s birthday.
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7Return to the home screen and open the Calendar. It’s the white icon with the current date inside.
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8Tap the Calendars tab. It’s at the bottom-center part of the screen. A list of calendars will appear.
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9Make sure ″Birthdays″ is selected. It’s under the ″Other″ header. If there’s a check mark in its radio button, that means your contacts’ birthdays are set to appear in the calendar. If not, tap the radio button to add one.
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10Tap Done. It’s at the top-right corner of the screen. The contact’s birthday now appears on the calendar. You can verify by going to the date in the calendar—there will be a little present icon to indicate that it’s the person’s birthday.
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Nicole Levine, MFA
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This article was written by Nicole Levine, MFA. Nicole Levine is a Technology Writer and Editor for wikiHow. She has more than 20 years of experience creating technical documentation and leading support teams at major web hosting and software companies. Nicole also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University and teaches composition, fiction-writing, and zine-making at various institutions. This article has been viewed 21,021 times.
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Updated: April 13, 2021
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Article SummaryX
1. Open Contacts.
2. Tap a Contact.
3. Tap Edit.
4. Tap + add birthday.
5. Enter the date and tap Done.
6. Open the Calendar.
7. Tap Calendars.
8. Select Birthdays and tap Done.
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