How we disable Calendar Alerts for Birthday on Mac

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It is nice to call our friends, family or send them messages on the occasion of the birthday and wish them "Happy Birthday!". Macos alert and notification system este insa destul de stresant cand tine sa ne aduca aminte ca se apropie birthday of a contact from our agenda. Each time we start the system or when it returns from Screen Saver, the notification that tomorrow is the birthday of X. Disable Calendar BirthDays notifications.

Before we see how we can disable these alerts. Calendar application from Mac, iPhone or iPad.

Synchronization of birthdays (Birthdays) of contacts, in the calendar application on macos, iOS and iPados

How do we add the date of birth to the details of a contact on iPhone, Mac or iPad

When we add in icloud a new contact or we edit one already existing in the application Contacts, to the details, besides the contact information (phone number, e-mail address) we have the opportunity to add the day and year of birth. We can do this from both the contacts on Mac and the one on the iPhone or iPad.

Add Contact Birthday
Add Contact Birthday

Once added date of birth, if applications Contacts si Calendar I am synchronized at iCloud, this will appear in the calendar application.

Contact Birthday in Calendar
Contact Birthday in Calendar

If you have alerts at birthdays, activated in the Calendar application on Mac, you will receive alerts the day before the event every time you open Mac or these exits from Screen Saver. In fact, some very stressful alerts, but fortunately we can control or deactivate everything (Disable Calendar Birthday Notifications).

Disable Calendar birthdays notifications alert pe Mac

If we no longer want these notifications to stress us the day before the birthday of an agenda, we can change the notification hours or we can completely deactivate them.

We open the application ”Calendar"On Mac, then in"Preferences"We go to"Alerts“.

Calendar Alerts
Calendar Alerts

Here we can choose when to be alert for the birthday (Birthdays). The day before the event, two days before, a week, on the day of his event ... not at all. None.

Disable Calendar Birthdays Notifications
Disable Calendar Birthdays Notifications

Once selected "none", you will not receive notifications for the birthday of a contact. Disable Calendar BirthDays notifications.

Although the notification should only appear at 09:00 I have as it looks in the alert settings, it occurs throughout the day, if we do not set "Snooze (automatic)".

Snooze Calendar Notifications
Snooze Calendar Notifications

The best option, if you do not want the total deactivation of these notifications, is to set the alerts only on the day of the event. "On Day of Event".

I've been writing passionately since 2004 about Windows and Linux operating systems, and since 2010 I've become a fan of Apple University. I'm currently writing tutorials for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, and other Apple devices.

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