Facebook is the most used Social network worldwide. It has become very important in our day-to-day life because it helps so many people to earn money and helps many in marketing their products. There are so many important and useful features available on Facebook, One among them is the Birthday alert. Facebook will alert you about your friend’s birthdays without fail. Well, What if you are not a regular Facebook user? What if I use my Facebook once in a month or so? In that case, Syncing your Facebook Friends’ birthdays to your Google calendar is the best option, Once if you synced your Facebook birthdays in your Google calendar, Your Android Phone will alert you about your friend’s birthdays So that you can face your friends later without any fear or embarrassment. Let’s see How to do that
See the video tutorial below
(OR) Follow the below Steps
Step 1:
Log-in to your Facebook account – > Click on the “Events” on the Left-hand side menu below Messages
Step 2:
Now it will take you to the Events page – > in Events page select the Settings icon which is on the Right-hand Side next to “Today”(See the pic below) -> Click Export
Step 3:
After Clicking Export a new dialog box will pop up Like in the below pic – > now right Click the “export your friends birthdays” and Click “Copy Link location
Step 4 :
Now in the New tab -> Log-in to your Gmail account (the Google account in which you want your friends birthday to sync ) -> Select Google Calendar Like in the below pic
Step 5:
Now in Google Calendar – >Select “Other Calendar” Dropdown Menu -> Choose “Add By URL”
Step 6:
Now a Dialog box will Pop-Up, in that paste the URL which you copied in “Step 3”
Step 7:
That’s it, Now your Facebook friends Birthdays will be Imported to your Google calender, Look at the pics below for reference
Step 8 :
Now that we have synced your Facebook friends Birthdays, let’s Go to the next step which is How to get a Birthday Notification alert on your Android Phone
Now in Your Android Phone Go to Settings -> Accounts and Sync -> Choose Google – >Select the Gmail Account (in which you’ve synced Calendar) ->Tap and Open -> Now you can see Menu(3 dotted ) -> Click Menu -> Choose Sync Now
Refer to the screenshots below
Veronika Seamans says
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I’m still new at Facebook and posts like these are very helpful.
Dolly Hussain says
Couldn’t find the export option as there is no TODAY option. help!!
Prakash Yuvaraj says
Hi Dolly Hussain ,
Thanks for leaving a comment , Don’t worry there is still option available to export the calender . New Facebook update just changed the option . instead of “today” option you gotta select “birthdays” options which is at the bottom right corner of “Events” tab.
Select – > Events -> Here you can see ” Events for you ” below , now if you take a look beside right corner of this “Events for you ” you can see “upcoming events & birthdays ” now right click the birthdays and select copy link location and follow the above tutorial for the rest . Soon i will write a post explaining this in detail.
Rajeev Chaturvedi says
Not Working, Tried For Several Times, There Is Some Format Problem As I Understand From The Error Message, Please Help.
https://www.facebook.com/events/birthdays
Robert says
Worked great! Thanks for tip to get my FB to sync w my google calendar!
Prakash Yuvaraj says
Thanks for the comment and I am glad it helped you mate.
Maniraj says
thank u so much..
Prakash Yuvaraj says
Hi Maniraj , You’re Welcome mate
Ansaf Mohammedali says
Thank you very much.
But for every new friend in my facebook I have to repeat the process, right?
Prakash Yuvaraj says
Hi Ansaf ,
If it is one or two friends you can add manually in Google calender and then sync in Mobile .
charmi says
Thanks a lot for new fb details..
Prakash Yuvaraj says
You ‘re Welcome
subin thomas says
awesum .. really helpful stuff thanks a lot… sync to fb option was not working on my s3 after recently resetting it.
reply to dolly is the one which helped me cos as fb has upgraded, cudnt find the option mentioned in the explanation.
Prakash Yuvaraj says
Hi Subin ,
please find the screen shot attached here, it is still there goto events -> lower right hand corner yo will find , events and birthdays right click on that and select copy link and then follow rest of the steps
amit dubey says
thnc bhai….it worked 🙂
mayank says
thanks it worked but however have one wish that
can we import birthday along with friends profile pic so that it could be easily identified ???
thanks in advance
harsha says
i could not get sir can u help
Prakash Yuvaraj says
Where exactly you re getting issue/error??
Andru says
Awesome !!! Thanks a million for this tutorial. solved a big problem for me.
cheers mate ….
sibendu says
i can’t syncronise the birthday and events with google calender app in Mi4i. but able to syncronise with google
Vivekananda Rath says
its an old option. In new fb there is no more setting option
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PRATIK says
Not able to sync. tried every step. the step 7 mentioned does not appear. tried pasting url and everything else. pls help.
Albert says
Hi,
I have followed all your steps and all my fb birthdays are synced to my phone now.
But I don’t get notifications. When I go into my calendar I can see all the birthdays but I never get notifications.
I can’t seem to edit these birthdays either. Any tips?
vivek says
This not works in my phone ,google calendar not show birthdays and events please help
Josh says
Thanks. It helped.
Ashik says
Now its not working
matt says
The Facebook information is not correct for the current version of FB copyright 2016
Sourav Jalan says
very simple and helpful video.. thanx a lot.. 😀
sandeep says
Wonderful work bro
Prakash Yuvaraj says
Thanks mate
Doris says
Please can you help me with options through android mobile.
There are no options to copy a URL from????
alok nama says
Veryyyyyyy nice… thankssssssssxxxxxx
tushar says
broo in my facebook account export option is not showing . then how to i copy that url link in my google calander. plss help me out.
Sid says
I followed all the steps. But at last an error occurs saying “couldn’t fatch data !”
Now what should i do ?
Shubham Sharma says
I am not able to find any option of export after clicking on birthdays. Is t still valid in 2018?
Vignesh says
Currently facebook removed this feature. Kindly please update in a banner at the top of the page