How to See Birthdays on Facebook on iPhone or iPad

Quickly find your friend's birthdays on Facebook on iPhone

Last Updated: May 30, 2022 Tested

This wikiHow teaches you how to see your Facebook friends' upcoming birthdays using an iPhone or iPad. Although birthdays used to appear on the Events calendar, you will now find them on a special page called Birthdays. And if you're worried you'll forget your friends' birthdays, you can customize your Facebook notifications so you'll always be notified of upcoming birthdays.

Method 1

Method 1 of 2:

Viewing Birthdays on Facebook

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Open the Facebook app on your iPhone or iPad. The Facebook icon looks like a white "f" in a blue square. You can find it on your Home screen or in your App Library.
2
Tap the magnifying glass. It's in the upper-right area of the screen. This opens the Search bar.

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3
Type birthdays. After you type the first several letters, you'll see "Birthdays" with a green-and-white cake icon appear at the top of the search results.
4
Tap Birthdays in the search results. This displays current, belated, recent, and upcoming birthdays on the same screen.

Method 2

Method 2 of 2:

Turning On Birthday Notifications

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Open the Facebook app on your iPhone or iPad. The Facebook icon looks like a white "f" in a blue square. You can find it on your Home screen or in your App Library. If you find yourself forgetting your friends' birthdays, you can customize birthday notifications on Facebook.
2
Tap the three-line menu ☰. It's at the bottom-right corner of Facebook.
3
Scroll down and tap Settings & Privacy. Additional options will expand.
4
Scroll down and tap Notification Settings. It's in the "Notifications" section, which is about halfway down the page between the "Ads" and "Shortcuts" sections.
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Tap Birthdays. A list of options for receiving birthday notifications will appear.
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Toggle the "Allow Notifications on Facebook" switch to the On position
. When the switch is blue, you'll receive notifications in Facebook for upcoming and/or belated birthdays.
- If this switch is already on (blue), there is no need to make any changes.
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Select where you want to receive notifications. In the "Where you receive these notifications" section, you can enable Push notifications (the kind that pop up in Facebook your iPhone or iPad), email notifications, and/or SMS text notifications from Facebook.
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Toggle the "Upcoming Birthdays" switch to the On position
. This option, under the "Receive notifications for" header, ensures that you'll be notified of birthdays before they happen.
- The "Belated birthdays" option is turned on by default. If you don't want to be notified of birthdays you've missed, you can tap the switch to turn it off.

Community Q&A

Question

My friend's birthdays are not on the list, why?

Community Answer

If your friends are in your address book, then their birthdays should automatically show on Facebook. If not, check to make sure they are in your address book.
Question

The birthdays no longer appear on my iPad.

Emmanuel Dikolelay

Community Answer

Click on Calendars at the top left of the application to make sure the Birthdays calendar is there and checked.
Question

My daily birthday reminders are not appearing in the right hand corner.

Ghuchison

Community Answer

Check that you have the feature turned on and that your people on daily reminders haven’t switched it off for others to see.