Do you notice a birthday in your iPhone Calendar that you’d like to remove? Is your calendar cluttered with birthdays you don’t care about or want to see? Are you trying to delete these events from your iPhone or iPad Calendar and confused as to why there's no clear way to do it? Wondering why you can't manually delete birthdays from the Calendar app? Don’t worry, we’ll show you how to clean up your calendar by removing unwanted birthdays on your iPhone or iPad. Any changes made will also apply to your Mac.

The way the Calendar app handles birthdays on iPhone, iPad, and Mac is a bit unusual. Birthdays are added through the Contacts app. That’s right — the Contacts app determines which birthdays appear in your Calendar across all devices. Therefore, if you want to eliminate a birthday from the Calendar app, you must go into the Contacts app and edit the contact to remove the birthday. The Calendar app only allows you to toggle all birthdays on or off, meaning any birthday linked to a contact will display in your Calendar. This includes birthdays from colleagues or random contacts who shared their card — even if you have no interest in those dates. Let’s get rid of them.

How to Delete Birthdays from Calendar on iPhone & iPad

Want to know how to remove a birthday event from your Calendar? Wondering why you can’t just delete them directly from the Calendar app? Here’s what to do:

1. Open the Contacts app on your iPhone or iPad (yes, you need to open Contacts to manage birthdays in Calendar)

2. Find the contact whose birthday appears in your Calendar and tap on it

3. Tap “Edit”

4. Scroll down until you find ‘birthday’, then tap the red (-) minus icon to delete it. Confirm deletion by tapping Delete

5. Repeat for other contacts whose birthdays you want removed

6. Go back to the Calendar app and check that the birthdays no longer appear

Your Calendar should now be free of unwanted birthdays.

At this time, there is no option to keep a birthday in a contact but prevent it from showing in the Calendar app.

How to Hide All Birthdays from Calendar on iPhone, iPad

Another alternative is to hide all birthdays from appearing in the Calendar app. However, you can’t hide specific birthdays — it's an all-or-nothing setting.

1. Open the Calendar app
2. Tap on “Calendars”
3. Scroll down and uncheck the box next to “Birthdays” to hide all birthdays from view

This method doesn’t delete the birthdays — it simply hides them. If you re-enable the Birthdays calendar later, all birthdays stored in your contacts will reappear.

This setup is similar to how holiday calendars work on iPhone and iPad — you can either show all or hide all, but not customize individual entries.

It's unclear why Apple chose such a restrictive approach, but for now, this is how the Calendar app works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Future updates may allow users to hide specific birthdays (and holidays) without removing them entirely from Contacts, but until then, use the two methods described above.

Feel free to share your thoughts or experiences with hiding or deleting birthdays from your iPhone or iPad Calendar in the comments below.

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