We cover removing your birthday on the website or the mobile app.

How Do You Take Your Birthday Off of Facebook?

Visit your profile by selecting your image at the top right of the page.

Facebook About and Contact and Basic Info

Select theAbouttab under your cover photo and profile image area.

ChooseContact and basic infofrom the left.

Find your birthday on the right side, underBasic info, and select thepencil iconnext to it.

Facebook birthday information

grab the audience button, again, next to your birthday.

Listed here are all the possible audiences you’re free to make your birthday visible to.

To stop everyone but you from seeing it, chooseOnly me.

Birthday edit options on Facebook

you’re free to do the same for your birth year on this same screen.

You’ll need to edit your public Facebook details to find the birthday visibility option.

Scroll to the bottom and chooseEdit Your About Info.

Select audience prompt on Facebook for birthday settings

Swipe to theBasic infoarea where you see your birthday, and tapEdit.

Tap the button to the right of your birthday to see your options.

Use the button next toBirth Yearif you want to change the privacy tweaks for the year you were born.

Facebook birthday settings on Android

Can You Remove Your Birthday From Facebook?

Yes and no, depending on how you look at it.

Youcanremove your birthday, using the directions above, to essentially wipe it out of the public eye.

Facebook Birthday notifications setting

it’s possible for you to hide it from your Facebook friends and others by choosingOnly meduring that step.

However, it’s possible for you to’t remove your birthdaycompletely.

Instead, you’ve got the option to only control who gets to see it.

What Happens If You Hide Your Birthday on Facebook?

What’s the biggest change?

Another consequence is privacy.

Of course, this isn’t a permanent decision.

Another way to get there is to open yourFacebook Notification Settingspage.

Then, selectBirthdaysfrom the list, and toggle theAllow notifications on Facebookoption to the off position.

Put in a new birthday, and then selectSaveat the bottom.