Sync contact birthdays to the Calendar?

Is there a way I can have the birthdates in all my contacts info, sync onto the calendar to display their birthdays?

Did you import the contacts? If you create the contact from scratch or add a b-day later, it should create the calendar item automatically. If you import contacts, this usually doesn't happen until you edit the contact. There is a utility at rsoutlook.com that will create the b-days following import.
See http://www.rsoutlook.com/us/prods/prod05.html
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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Problem synchronizing contact birthday into the ca...

Hi Nokia,
I have a problem synchronizing the contact birthday into the calendar
Need help Please.
//Abdou

I’ve had another look at this.
I was wrong about the birthday in the contact taking you to the most recent one; not sure what I did but it was finger trouble.
Unfortunately, it has just reiterated the original problem.
For example, there is a contact in my list with a birthdate of 3rd December, 1958.
The Birthday field in Google Contacts shows 3rd December 1958.
The Birthday field in N9 Contacts shows 4th December 1958.
When you open the Contact page to edit the individual fields and tap on the Birthday field, it takes you to December 1958 and highlights .... the 3rd!!
I clicked on the 3rd and then saved the changes to the Contact Birthday field in the N9 and it still showed the 4th.
I have had auto time update ‘ON’ and ‘OFF’ and I have changed the time zone in my phone from GMT+11 in increments to GMT-4 and nothing changes in the Birthday field.
It looks like the error lies in the birthday coding.
Nokia?????

Sync Contact's bdays with Calendar

I am not syncing my iPhone 3Gs with any calendar. I am using Hotmail for email. I would like to sync the Birthday information stored in my Contacts with the iPhone Calendar (so I can get reminders and view by month).
I can't figure out how to do this, any suggestions?

Set your Hotmail account up in Outlook and it will bring the calendars over (including the birthday calendar) which you can then sync with your iPhone via iTunes or MobileMe.
You will need to sync your contacts as well if you are just using iPhone contacts (or import them into Hotmail from whatever app you are syncing contacts with) so the birthday information goes into the Hotmail birthday calendar.

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Hi,
I'm using iPhone4 with iOS 4.3.3. I'm currently syncing my contacts with Google Contacts.
Time zone is GMT +8:00 Singapore.
What happens when I sync my contacts, the birthdays in Google will change the month to day & vice-versa.
iPhone contact = 1 July 1980
Google contact = 7 Jan 1980
Anyway to solve this?
Thanks.

It is possible to sync to multiple machines for different content. However, the content must be on different tabs.
example: You can sync calendars/contacts at work and music videos at home since they are on the Info and Music/Video tabs respectivly. You can not sync contacts at work and calendars at home since they are on the same tab (Info).
Here is the step by step to set up multiple machine syncing:
1. Select "Disable automatic syncing for all iPhones" under Edit / Preferences / iPhone in the iTunes menu.
2. Uncheck "Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected" in the Summary tab of iTunes.
3. Check "Only sync checked items" in the same tab.
4. On the computer you want to sync contacts and calendar, check the corresponding boxes in the Info tab. UNCHECK everything else in the MUSIC, PHOTOS, PODCASTS and VIDEO tabs.
5. Sync your iPhone with this computer FIRST.
6. On your other computer, follow the same steps above (1, 2 and 3). Then, UNCHECK everything in the INFO tab, and check everything else on the other tabs.
7. When you sync with this second computer, you may get a message that the iPhone has already been synced with another computer, and that the media library will be deleted. Fine. There should be NO media library on the iPhone since you unchecked all the media items on the first computer, right?
8. Sync. Then you can sync on both computers and each will sync what is checked and not overwrite the rest.

Can two users on the same Mac sync contacts by using the same Apple ID in the iCloud settings?

Can two users on the same Mac sync contacts by using the same Apple ID in the iCloud settings?

Hi Barney,
That's exactly what I want. I have a personal user and a business user on my MacBook Pro. I want both users to have the same contacts so if I add a contact while I'm logged into my personal user, it will show up when I'm logged into my business user. I want both contacts books to be exactly the same; like you said. So, I used my business user AppleID when I enabled iCloud for my personal user and I enabled iCloud for my business user with that Apple ID as well. For my personal user, I selected Contacts and Calendars to sync with iCloud. For my business user, I selected everything to sync with iCloud. The problem is... it didn't change anything. I restarted my computer to see if that would do anything but nothing happened. I'm not super savvy with Apple products, so maybe I'm completely confused.
Hi Xeni,
Thank you for your response, as well.
KEW

List problem of birthdays in the calendar application

Hi,
I have an iPhone4 and an iPad. When using the list view in the calendar aplication in the iPad, then all birthday dates are one day too early, but when opening for example the week view then the date is correct. In my iPhone4 the dates of the birthdays in the list view are correct.
I have synched the data in the iPad and the iPhone4 from exactly the same Outlook contacts/calender and I'm using IOS4.2 in both devices.
I have double checked the set date and time zone in the iPad, and they seem to be OK.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi, My birthdays were all a day early no matter what view, I did the following process which completely solved it for me.
Not sure if your problem is solved, if not try this which worked for me:
(1) If your iPad/phone is syncing contacts with iCloud, turn it off. In Settings on your iPad/phone, Mail,Contacts,Calendars, Accounts, iCloud, turn off Contacts.
(2) sync your iPad/phone to iTunes.
(3) now select the ‘Info’ tab in iTunes for your iPad/iPhone. Ensure that ‘Sync Address Book Contacts’ is ticked. (You can revert to syncing with iCloud later, after this process is complete.)
(4) scroll to the very bottom section of the Info tab. Where it says ‘Replace information on this iPad/iPhone’, select ‘Contacts’.
(5) Sync again.
Now check Calendars on iPad/iPhone, this process ‘fixes’ the information of birth dates and they should now appear correctly.

Did not sync contacts, but are the data being backup?

Lets say I did not sync contacts from my iPhone to Address Book or Outlook or anything. But I always do backup through iTunes. Then, lets say something gone wrong with my iPhone and I need to Restore all data from my backup. Will I get all my contacts back?

Yes they are in the backup that is made with each sync. However, you really should start to sync them with something.
If you don't want to use Outlook or computer's address book, I would suggest using gMails contacts. It will sync over the air for any changes and you will know at least your contacts are always someplace safe. Also, the backup file Apple makes while works, it is still one file that if gets messed up or lost, you are out of luck. With gMail you can at least get to it from any computer and export it out if you have to.
http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/

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SUPPORT TEAM – PLEASE SEE THIS – Complete explanation of cause and correction steps.
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Google Contacts' birthdays not showing up in Apple Contacts or Calendars

As a primarily Gmail-using guy, all of my calendars and contact information is stored with Google. All my Google Contacts are exactly the way I like them, with various information such as nicknames, birthdays, important dates (my anniversary), etc. I just bought an iPad Air 2 and proceeded to sync my Google information as described here: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/2753077?hl=en
All my contacts were successfully added. However, for all of my contacts that did not have a Google+ account, their birthdays, which I entered manually into my Google Contacts, were not synced. None of my contacts on my iPad have their birthdays, either in their contact card or the calendar, even though I explicitly have their birthdays in my Google Contacts on Gmail.
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I think I found the culprit: birthdays in my Google Contacts that did not have a birth year did not sync, while those with years synced properly.
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currently have all bdays on recurring calendar entries. i am considering adding them instead, to the contact list for each person. can someone tell me what difference there would be between the two? does it affect syncing w outlook 2007? does it tell you the age of the person on either way? that is what i would like to happen the most. would be nice not to have to do the math, lol
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Looking at my birthday's added in the contact...it adds the birthday to the calendar as a "whole day event" and sets reminder to 15min before by default. It hasn't synchronized it with Outlook, but doesn't affect other entries or the sychronization process. It doesn't give the age either way unfortunately
Kijana
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I can't see the option for yahoo in the sync contacts section of i tunes

when I go into i tunes (with my iphone 4S contected to my pc - and click on the info tab - I can see the 'sync contacts with' option - the drop down box to the right of this offers me the options to sync with - outlook, google contacts & windows contacts. it does not offer me the option to sync with yahoo - which is my email account - how can i add yahoo to this drop down box of options?

Hi GillAH12
I have observed the same as you have where I no longer see the option to sync with Yahoo contacts when I access itunes via my PC. I currently have an iPhon4s with latest iOS 6.0.1.
I know for a fact prior to what I see now, I never saw a choice of "Google contacts" to sync but the other choices of "Outlook" and Windows Address Book" may have always been in the drop down list. The only thing I could thing of as to why the choice of Google contacts appears there is because I logged onto Google with a shared account (created by someone else) that I use with my other colleagues for a Tech volunteer org I belong too that may have a small list of contacts from our group.
As you mentioned in your initial post on 11/27/12 (at 4:53 pm), I too only have Yahoo as my main email contact where I maintain my contacts on my PC and other than iCloud (turned off for contacts and mail) in my iPhone setting, I only have Yahoo listed as my other account (and ALL settings are turned ON for Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders and Notes)
Chris,
You mention to GillAH12 (in your reply on Nov 27, 2012 5:11 PM) that
" Computer contacts sync to Yahoo. Phone contacts sync to Yahoo. You don't sync yahoo contacts on phone to computer or vice-versa. "
But the last time I had syncing issues between my iPhone contacts to my Yahoo contacts (that I troubleshooted with a Genius tech at an Apple Store) unless he was wrong, he said once you add your Yahoo account in your iPhone settings, and turn on your Contacts, he said your iPhone should now display your yahoo contacts (which they did) and I'm almost sure (but not 100%) that he said all subsequent updates/additions to my contacts on your iPhone should be synced and reflected in my Yahoo contact list on my PC and vice-versa from my Yahoo contacts on my PC to my iPhone. Not lately, but I have seen my Yahoo contacts get updated after I added a new or updated an existing contact on my iPhone
You are saying that's not the case and if not, whom (i.e with Apple support or some other Apple user) did you confirm that info with?
Before I even visited the Apple Store, since I bought my iPhone at Verizon, i intially spent several hours with a Verizon tech to try and resolve (but they were unsuccessful) my Yahoo contact sync issues, before they suggested I go to an Apple Store. As myself and GillAH12 (and I'm sure others have observed), it's very frustrating to get mixed answers from different Apple techs and it's sad us Apple users have to rely on our testing and troubleshooting skills to help each other.
Thanks

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Copied from my previous post.
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