On: Google Calendar should prevent spam by default

[inetknght]

So, another complaint about Google Calendar: how do I remove contacts' birthdays from my calendar? I have hundreds of contacts -- almost all are coworkers and almost none of which I care that it's their birthday. Many of their birthdays show up on my Google Calendar. I don't want to remove the showing of birthdays. I want to remove the showing of individual peoples' birthdays.

[jadedhacker → inetknght]

Even more so, I'm sorry to say I have contacts with friend(s) that died... I don't necessarily want to remove them from my contact list, but the (automated) birthday notification feels... unseemly... :-/

This would not be true of a manual one because it expresses the action intentionally, whereas an automated one is kinda like an awkward stranger being like hey it's their birthday today!

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[robinwassen → jadedhacker]

Sorry to hear that, it's an eerie reminder of our mortality.

You can edit the contact, remove the birthday and add it as a note to keep the info but let it be handled in another way.

[Jemmeh → inetknght]

I just made a separate calendar for birthdays I do care about, since that's relatively few.

[cosmotron → inetknght]

If the person appears in your Google Contacts, are you able to to clear the birthday field?

[inetknght → cosmotron]

I don't want to clear the birthday field from the contact. I just neither want to be notified of it nor see it on my calendar.

[haimez → inetknght]

So... You don't actually care but you're annoyed that Google calendar makes you choose between admitting to not caring and getting 3 birthday notifications every day that you won't do anything about and don't want to be reminded about?

[bartl → haimez]

Somebody's birthday is interesting info to keep.

That doesn't mean you should get a notification when it comes up.

[rozenmd → inetknght]

If you have the Google Calendar app: tap on Settings in the side bar, scroll down to birthdays, tap on your email account and tick "Do not include birthdays"

[giancarlostoro → rozenmd]

That's all of them OP meant individual ones.

[stefan_ → giancarlostoro]

If you don't care about almost all of them, you should probably just make your own calendar with birthdays of people you do care about. Kinda blacklist/whitelist.

[rozenmd → stefan_]

That's how I've got it - remove all birthdays, create a calendar just with people you actually care about

[dillondoyle → inetknght]

My GCal bday annoyance: my calendar marks 100+ birthdays on the one single day (many other birthday reminders are correct). Wonder where the data got funked along the line or if a default Birthdate got set somewhere

[dataflow → inetknght]

[snip: never mind... I read the last sentence completely backwards.]

[mort96 → dataflow]

No:

> I don't want to remove the showing of birthdays. I want to remove the showing of individual peoples' birthdays.