Birthdays hide from calendar

[MGBeadz]

Being able to hide birthdays from a calendar view would be very useful. I've got so many contacts I don't really "care" when their birthday is except when it's in a birthday view.

I've tried deleting the birthday calendar event but it keeps coming back

[ulsklyc]

This is in v2.28.0.

Birthdays are now a layer, not a pile of deletable entries - the same shape the public and school holiday layers have had for a while. There is a toggle in the calendar toolbar; switch it off and the birthdays disappear from month, week, day and agenda alike. The choice is remembered per device.

That framing is the actual fix for what you described. Deleting the individual events could never work: they are generated from the contacts, so the next sync recreated them, which is exactly the "it keeps coming back" you ran into. A layer has no such problem - nothing is deleted, it is simply not drawn.

Two details worth knowing:

• Only real birthday entries are affected. The switch keys off the birthday link the event carries, not its title, so an appointment of your own called "Anna's birthday party" stays where it is.
• The toggle only appears when it can do something - while birthdays are in the range you are looking at, or while the layer is off. It cannot vanish and strand you with no way to switch them back on.

Your birthday overview is untouched, so the dates are still there when you want them - just not spread across the calendar.