Facebook is the most used social network worldwide. It has become crucial in our day-to-day lives because it helps so many people 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 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 “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 picture below) -> Click Export
Step 3:
After Clicking Export, a new dialog box will pop up Like in the below picture, > now right Click “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 picture.
Step 5:
Now in Google Calendar: >Select “Other Calendar” in the drop-down Choose “Add By URL.”
Step 6:
Now a dialog box will pop up; in that, paste the URL that you copied in “Step 3.”
Step 7:
That’s it. Now your Facebook friends birthdays will be imported to your Google calendar. Look at the pictures 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
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I’m still new at Facebook and posts like these are very helpful.
Couldn’t find the export option as there is no TODAY option. help!!
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.
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
Worked great! Thanks for tip to get my FB to sync w my google calendar!
Thanks for the comment and I am glad it helped you mate.
thank u so much..
Hi Maniraj , You’re Welcome mate
Thank you very much.
But for every new friend in my facebook I have to repeat the process, right?
Hi Ansaf ,
If it is one or two friends you can add manually in Google calender and then sync in Mobile .
Thanks a lot for new fb details..
You ‘re Welcome
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.
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
thnc bhai….it worked 🙂
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
i could not get sir can u help
Where exactly you re getting issue/error??
Awesome !!! Thanks a million for this tutorial. solved a big problem for me.
cheers mate ….
i can’t syncronise the birthday and events with google calender app in Mi4i. but able to syncronise with google
its an old option. In new fb there is no more setting option
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Not able to sync. tried every step. the step 7 mentioned does not appear. tried pasting url and everything else. pls help.
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?
This not works in my phone ,google calendar not show birthdays and events please help
Thanks. It helped.
Now its not working
The Facebook information is not correct for the current version of FB copyright 2016
very simple and helpful video.. thanx a lot.. 😀
Wonderful work bro
Thanks mate
Please can you help me with options through android mobile.
There are no options to copy a URL from????
Veryyyyyyy nice… thankssssssssxxxxxx
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.
I followed all the steps. But at last an error occurs saying “couldn’t fatch data !”
Now what should i do ?
I am not able to find any option of export after clicking on birthdays. Is t still valid in 2018?
Currently facebook removed this feature. Kindly please update in a banner at the top of the page