I am running iOS 6, when I logged into my account it began syncing all my friends birthdays to my calendar. This is not a big deal, as i can simply hide that calendar so they will not show up. However hiding the calendar will not remove the birthdays from the notification center. Having them there is very annoying and I would love to find out how to remove, only the events that came with Facebook, from notification center. Any help would be great!
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Birthdays in Notification Center
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Under Settings, go to Facebook settings. There you can toggle on/off whether Facebook integrates with calendar and contacts. You'll want to disable calendar integration there.
I have that turned off, still stays in the calendar. I think that is just stopping it from adding any new events.
Well it may be contacts then? All I know is I had both enabled at first and it added all my FB friends' birthdays to my calendar and NC. After disabling both, this problem has been no more. Hopefully that will work for you, otherwise maybe you need to reinstall?
I had this problem also, especially annoying if you have a lot of Facebook friends - It seems that Facebook adds a Birthday to each of your contacts where it can. Toggling off 'Contacts' under Settings > General > Facebook as mentioned should fix this.
it will be reading from your contacts from iCloud, or on the phone
not Facebook
iv got my uncles birthday in notification center, i think its a nice touch, a handy reminder
not Facebook
iv got my uncles birthday in notification center, i think its a nice touch, a handy reminder
I agree that it is nice, but there needs to be a limit. I don't like seeing 3 birthdays a day of people I only know a little bit and do not really care about.
Correct. I'm running iOS 5.x (which has no Facebook integration), and I have the same issue: unwanted birthdays in Notification Center.
While FB integration may in fact increase the number of birthdays that are available for display, that's not really the issue, here. The issue is that there seems to be no way to completely disable the display of birthdays in Notification Center.
Frustrating.
All you need to do is go into the calendar app, click on the calendar button (top left corner) and deselect the one at the bottom called birthdays!! 
All you need to do is go into the calendar app, click on the calendar button (top left corner) and deselect the one at the bottom called birthdays!!
Please reread and understand the issue being discussed. We're talking about Notification Center.
All you need to do is go into the calendar app, click on the calendar button (top left corner) and deselect the one at the bottom called birthdays!!
That doesn't work.
I'm having the issue as well. I made the mistake of syncing my FB friends and noticed how crazy it went. I then turned FB syncing off for contacts and calendars. I then turned off the birthday calendar in the calendar section. They are still appearing in NC.
Hopefully GM will fix this, or there will be a lot of pissed off people when iOS 6 drops.
All you need to do is go into the calendar app, click on the calendar button (top left corner) and deselect the one at the bottom called birthdays!!
Worked for me.
Got it! Go to the Facebook app. Tap Account Settings. Then tap Notifications and uncheck Events.
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Ok. Maybe not.
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Ok. Maybe not.
Ok. Think I finally got it. In the iPhone's settings go to Facebook. Then run off calendar and contacts. Then go into the Facebook app and do what I said above. You can then turn on contacts and calendars again under the iPhone Settings menu.
This worked for a couple minutes and then refreshed and had refilled Notification Center with birthdays.
I have the same problem but I just let go, it fills my notification center, and I get to be notified from certain people's birthday.
Same problem here. I think i'm just going to not use Facebook contact syncing as this is just silly.
Thank you! This worked for me as well.
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Thank you! This is what worked for me as well.
This is what I did and it worked for me:
Go to: Settings > Facebook > uncheck 'Calendar', 'Contacts'
Then go to: Calandar > Calendars > uncheck ' Facebook birthdays'
Then go to Settings > Notifications > Calendar > uncheck to off
Then go to Settings > Facebook > 'Update Contacts'
Then, finally: go to Settings > Notifcations > Calendar > check to on
Be sure to leave 'Calendars' AND 'Contacts' unchecked.
Go to: Settings > Facebook > uncheck 'Calendar', 'Contacts'
Then go to: Calandar > Calendars > uncheck ' Facebook birthdays'
Then go to Settings > Notifications > Calendar > uncheck to off
Then go to Settings > Facebook > 'Update Contacts'
Then, finally: go to Settings > Notifcations > Calendar > check to on
Be sure to leave 'Calendars' AND 'Contacts' unchecked.
This worked great for me. I managed to recheck contacts and it didn't come back, although we'll wait and see for whoever has a birthday next.