At the moment, birthdays that appear in Google Calendar are based on Google Contacts information, but manual creation is now coming.
Rat out my friends by telling Google their DOB? Will they also add a field for mothers’ maiden name? No thanks.
They already have your birthday (and maiden name) through your friends’ contacts.
Being able to add birtdays manually is definitely useful, altough I believe it’s better and more organized to add them through contacts. (Not that I actually use Google contacts/calendar.)
Remember the times when Google invented stuff that was not completely obvious? What happened to them?
Enshittification. They’re too big to care.
It took them years to finally add reminders for the birthdays (and similar special dates) in the contact app.
why is this news, though? before contacts integration was a thing i created yearly-repeat events for birthdays of family and close friends.
i now get reminded twice! once for my manually-created entry and once more for the contact integration.
… It never occurred to me to put birthdays in the contacts. I’ve only got recurring events!
Wow, are we in the future or something?? Jesus christ, Google. 💀
Oh uau. How would I have remembered birthdays until now since 15 years ago?
