iPhone Users when
upgraded to iOS 10 are facing a issue with iCal that birthday entries have
duplicated multiple times, calendar app has duplicated the birthdays calendar
hundreds of times - both on the Facebook calendar group and my default home
calendar group. It has also duplicated my default calendar hundreds of times.
it's not only the Facebook calendars. It's also duplicating the Birthday
calendars under the calendar group named 'Other'. This suggests it's an Apple
problem too. Some users have around 180 instances of
"Birthday" calendars under a group called "Other".
checked my iMac and these birthday calendar instances (duplicates) do not
appear there. It is only on my iPhone.
Fix 1: Update the Apple iOS
version
This is been sure
fix to remove duplicate birthday enrtry from iOS device or iphone. Update to release of iOS 10.3 and
it has fixed the issue for so many users.
Fix
2: Following steps may
help you to resolve the issue.
Deleted all
accounts (comprising of iCloud & Gmail) from
Settings>Calendars>Accounts
Disabled
Contacts and Calendars from iCloud.
Disabled
“Events Found in Apps” in Settings>Calendar
Logged out
of Facebook in Settings>Facebook.
Deleted
Facebook app.
Deleted
Calendar app.
Installed
iOS 10.3 BETA
Installed
Calendar app.
Enabled
Contacts and iCloud calendars
Fix 3: Delete Calendar
Entry
I was able
to finally get rid of the duplicate Birthday calendars the following way.
1. Turn off
all calendars on your iOS device in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars
2. Create a
complete backup of your iOS device on your computer with iTunes.
3. Make a
copy of the backup folder
4. Download
and install iBackupbot on your computer
5. Delete
the Calendar folder and all Calendar items out of the backup as shown in the
screenshots.
Workaround to fix delete birthday calendar iphone
duplicate birthdays in
icloud calendar
Delete and
disconnect any calendar on your iPhone and that will at least get the phone
working normally again. This does not solve the duplicate problem in any way.
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