Google is finally rolling out a dedicated birthday event for Google Calendar, so you no longer have to rely on the Contacts app.

Google Calendar makes it easy to keep track of important events and happenings. It's easy to add or remove a friend's birthday to your calendar.

Google announced an overhaul for birthdays inside of Google Calendar this week. Currently, birthdays aren’t special inside of Calendar, but that’s now changing. Detailed in the announcement, users now have the ability to create and modify dedicated birthday events on

Users can now manually add birthdays in Google Calendar on Android devices. The feature will eventually be available on the web and iOS devices. The update will roll out over the next couple of weeks,

Google is making it easier to create birthday reminders in Google Calendar. The new Google Workspace update is currently rolling out and should become available in the next couple of weeks. Before this update,