How to add your friends' birthdays to Google Calendar

Google Calendar is one of the tools that can help us the most to increase our productivity and have at hand everything we have to do at the end of the day or month. In it we can add pending appointments, events and special dates such as the birthday of our loved ones. One of the worst things that can happen to us is that we forget the birthday of a family member, friend, or even our partner. So that this does not happen to us again, we will tell you how to add this special day to your Google calendar.

Edit the contact with his birthday

To do this we must have the Google Contacts application downloaded and installed on our mobile. It is a free application that you can download from the Google Play Store and its size may vary depending on the device on which it is installed. Make sure you give it the required permissions or else you won't be able to use the app. Your system Contacts app should also have a field to fill in the birthday. In this case we are going to give you the tutorial for the Google application.

Now, we go to the contact whose birthday we want to remember. In 'Edit contact' (bottom of the screen') we will scroll until we reach 'more fields'. We unfold it and observe that, now, it appears to fill in the 'Date' and 'Birthday' fields.We complete it with the date of birth corresponding to the contact. We close the contact file, saving it conveniently.

Sync birthdays in Google Calendar

Now, we are going to open Google Calendar In order for the birthdays to appear correctly synchronized in our calendar we have to make sure that your box is checked. To do this, we slide the screen to the right, opening a configuration side menu. We scroll down until we reach the 'Birthday' box. We must ensure that it is checked so that birthdays appear. If not, this trick will be useless.

In this same section, in addition to the birthdays of our contacts, we can also request that the holidays of our country be synchronized. This way it will not happen to us like many, who get up to go to work on a holiday.

Now, another important step is to ask Google Calendar to notify you of birthdays, because there's no point writing them down if you're not going to remember to congratulate your friendsand loved ones. To set a birthday reminder, let's do the following.

Set a birthday reminder in Google Calendar

In the Calendar, we enter the birthday of the chosen person. We look at the '+' icon that appears at the bottom right of the screen. Three new icons will appear: click on 'Reminder'. Then click on 'Does not repeat' and check 'Every year'. We have to make sure that we keep the reminder right on the day that his birthday is celebrated. If necessary, we will have to manually search for it in the calendar that is displayed.

Above all, in 'Remind me' we must put a title to the reminder, something like 'XXX's Birthday'. To finish, click on 'Save'. From now on, every year, Google Calendar will remind you of the birthday of the person in question. That way you will never have any reason for them to be angry with you.