Duplicate Birthday Calendars

My iphone duplicates the birthday entries on the calendar. The iPhone info tab in iTunes seems to have the option to synch Birthdays from the calendar even after i deselect all options to synch birthdays. *Is there a way to delete the Birthdays option from the iTunes:iPhone:info tab?* If I select the synch Birthdays tab, it puts the Birthdays Calendar on my iphone, but not on my iCal. If I choose to synch Birthdays in iCal I have it on iCal and on the iPhone. There are then two "Birthdays" options to select from the iTunes:iPhone:info tab.

That solution didn't solve the problem for me. I too had Birthdays showing up twice in the "Sync... Selected Calendars" list. What worked for me was disabling syncing of all info in iTunes and .Mac sync, quitting all applications and deleting the following folders:
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/
~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/
The tilde character (~) signifies your user account's home folder. Once I did that, I attempted to resync the info with the iPhone, but I found the contacts, calendars and Mail accounts lists empty as though there was nothing to sync with. So I opened Address Book and tried to sync again and suddenly all the contact groups appeared in the list. Launched iCal and tried to sync again and suddenly all the calendars appeared. Same thing with the mail accounts. Not sure if launching the seperate apps was necessary, iTunes may just have needed a bit of time to rebuild the links to the application data. Everything is working fine again and this time, I don't have duplicate Birthday calendars.
Just as a side note, those folders I deleted I believe contain cached information related to synchronization, and I believe the problem stemmed from corrupt or duplicate information which was resolved by deleting them and forcing iTunes/.mac/Sync Services to rebuild them. There is no important data stored in either folder that won't get recreated by the apps in question, although it's probably a good idea that you do a complete sync of both .mac and your iPods/iPhone before deleting them. In my case, the Mac I was using contained the 'master' databases for all apps, so I didn't hesitate to tell .mac to replace it's contents with the information on my Mac. Proceed with caution if you have multiple Macs that may not be in sync with each other.

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Why not post in the iCal forum area?
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I have the STRANGEST things happening with birthdays on both my iPhone (5, 32GB, white, iOS 6) and iPad (32GB, iOS 6, white).
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I figured it out! (Or at least, it's been fixed for a day on both my iPad and iPhone.)
By the way, I discovered more oddities, but I'm not going to even bother with describing them.)
I am assuming everyone here has been syncing their birthday calendar off of Google/Gmail (whether CalDAV or Exchange, it doesn't matter).
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A) Tgara was on to something: syncing the Google birthday calendar in your Google sync settings -- even though it does not show up in your calendar list on the iphone/ipad -- is the culprit.
B) BUT, simply un-syncing will not make them go away unless you completely un-sync all your Google calendars. Once the repetitions get into your phone/iPad via they are kind of "stuck" there, and you've got to go back to the beginning to un-stick them for good.
C) Thus, it may require some trial and error because I had to repeat this a couple times. I may no have the right order of operations, but this is my best recreation/guess.
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1) I'm debating whether you have to do this step (I think I did it on my iPhone, but not my iPad, and yet both worked), but it doesn't take long, so you could just to be safe: on your iOS device, Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars -- delete your Google calendar account.
2) On your iOS device, go to the proper Google sync page to choose what calendars are available for syncing.
For Exchange, go to: https://m.google.com/sync/settings/iconfig/device
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For Google Apps CalDAV (although it worked for me on the normal page above), go to: https://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/yourhosteddomain.com/iphoneselect
If you're not sure which method you use, do both of them.
3) Sign in and choose the device in question (if prompted) and then uncheck ALL the calendars. Save/apply.
4) Go to calendar app. You should have an On my iPhone or On my iPad calendar and the iOS birthday calendar. Ensure that no repetitions are seen when you check mark each calendar idividually and also collectively to be visible. If there are, repeat the steps above.
5) Once the repetitions are gone, go to your iOS settings and add the calendar account back in if you removed it in step one.
6) Go back to the calendar app. Again, you will have two calendars -- one default Google calendar and one ios birthday calendar. Turn on each one at a time and also together to make sure the repetitions are gone. If they are not, repeat the above again.
7) Once they are gone, go back to the Google sync page(s) and add all the calendars you want back, BUT DO NOT SELECT YOUR BIRTHDAY CALENDAR. Save/apply.
8) Go to the calendar app. Open up the calendar list. Wait for it to refresh. Now you should be able to turn on all your calendars you wish to see, wait for it to propagate, and confirm there are no copies. If there are copies, repeat all the steps!
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Thanks for the question. I understand you are having issues with your Birthday calendar in iCloud, specifically duplicate events. The following article addresses Birthday calendar troubleshooting, and steps to resolve any duplicate entries:
iCloud: Advanced Calendar and iCal troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4337
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1. If you already have the Birthdays Calendar enabled, deselect it in the Calendars list in Calendar (or iCal).
2. Search Calendar (or iCal) by entering "birthday" (without the quotes) in the Search dialog in the top-right corner of the Calendar (or iCal) window.
3. Sort the Search results by title, so they are easier to analyze.
4. Locate any birthdays that are returned in the Search results that are not contained in a Holidays Calendar (such as John F. Kennedy's Birthday, Lincoln's Birthday, and so on).
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6. After verifying that the birthday is entered in Contacts (or Address Book), remove any birthday events not stored in the Birthdays or Holidays calendars by selecting them and choosing Delete from the Edit menu.
Note: You can select consecutive items by holding down the Shift key while selecting them. You can select non-consecutive items by holding down the Command key while selecting them.
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Thanks,
Matt M.

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After the most recent update, my calendar app began showing duplicate entries for all of my calendars (google, birthday and US Holidays). I deleted all of the google calendars from my phone and then added each calendar back to the phone one at a time. After doing this, there were no more duplicate entries for the google calendars. However, I have been unable to fix the duplicate entries for the Apple birthday calendar or the Apple US Holidays subscribed calendar. I tried restoring the iPhone, but that didn't work. I then tried to delete the birth date from various phone contacts, but even though I had removed the contact's birthday, the duplicate birthday entries on the calendar remained. I tried changing the contacts' birth date (i.e. altering the month or year), but that didn't update on the calendar either. I'm using an iPhone 5, ios 7.1.1. I do not sync any calendars with iCloud and when I show the birthdays calendar in iCloud, there are not any duplicate entries. Any suggestions?

Literally, no. You will not find a single identical application for all. Apps that are written for the iPhone and iPad have optimizations specific to those platforms, while computer programs will be at least slightly different as they will have optimized features specific to them.
You could look throught the APp store for something you like for the iOS devices, then check the developer's site to see if they also make something equivalent or near so for desktop and laptop computers.
The best you can find is separate applications (albeit maybe from one developer and designed to work as companion apps) that share data seemlessly somehow, but none will be without glitches at times - just the nature of anything that tries to syncronize multiple devices frequently over the internet.
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That's just my setup, but no single app or program exists that I could use for all that (or even just for the Apple machine's alone).

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You probably don't need to invoke Einstein, but you probably do need to post in the iPhone forum:
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This forum is for questions about the Communities themselves and so is not the most likely place for you to get help with your problem.
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