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Handy Hint 78 - Making sure you never forget birthdays - using the Contacts app!
Many people put the birthdays of friends and families into their calendars, setting up these calendar entries as all-day events with a yearly recurrence. This can be quite tedious and is the long-winded way of getting birthdays into your calendar.
Here is how to do it more quickly.
Here is how to do it more quickly.
Put birthday details into your Contacts app
In you Contacts app, there is a Birthdays field!
Just fill in the person's birthday here, and you will see their birthday magically appear in your calendar each year! Simple!
In you Contacts app, there is a Birthdays field!
Just fill in the person's birthday here, and you will see their birthday magically appear in your calendar each year! Simple!
Birthday reminders
It can also be handy to set a reminder for these birthdays - so that you get an alert a day or two before (in time to get a present!) or perhaps on the day (so that your remember to call!).
This is achieved in Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar.
It can also be handy to set a reminder for these birthdays - so that you get an alert a day or two before (in time to get a present!) or perhaps on the day (so that your remember to call!).
This is achieved in Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar.
Touch on Default Alert Times, then touch on Birthdays and choose your preferred alert time.
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"I have birthdays in my contacts by they don't appear in my Calendar!"
If you have set up birthdays in your contacts but still don't see these birthdays in you Calendar, it may be that the Birthdays calendar is not 'switched on'. This is easily fixed in the Calendar App.
If you have set up birthdays in your contacts but still don't see these birthdays in you Calendar, it may be that the Birthdays calendar is not 'switched on'. This is easily fixed in the Calendar App.
- In the Calendars App, touch on Calendars (middle bottom - see 1 below).
- Make sure the Birthdays calendar in the 'Other' section is ticked. (It is down the bottom of the list of calendars, so you might need to scroll down to it - see 2 below) .
- If it is not ticked, touch it to tick it.
- All birthdays that you have recorded in your Contacts should not appear in your Calendar.
