How to Remove Birthdays from Your Google Calendar
Not necessary.
We may not have much use for paper calendars in 2015, but that doesn’t mean you can’t tidy up your digital ones. The first place to start is the automatically added birthdays on your Google Calendar.
How did they get there in the first place? It seems Google thought it’d be a good idea to automatically integrate the birthdays of every one of your Google+ acquaintances into your daily schedule. As a result, you see reminders about random people you probably don’t even remember following on your personal calendar. Yes, you can hide it from view. But here’s how to erase it from your world completely:
1. On the left-hand side of your calendar page, look for a section titled My calendars, and then click the arrow to its right.
2. Then click Settings.
3. You’ll arrive at a list of all the calendars you subscribe to. Skim past that until you see the title Other Calendars; then, on the right side of the page, click Browse interesting calendars.
4. You’ll arrive at a list of country-specific holiday calendars. Interesting indeed! But not helpful. At the top of the page, click the More tab.
5. Finally we have arrived at the Holy Grail of calendar settings: the place where you can click Unsubscribe and do away with those automatically added birthdays forever.
Your 2015 just got a little less cluttered.
Follow Alyssa Bereznak on Twitter or email her.
