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Samsung Calendar - Birthdays and Events from Google Calendar are merged into a single calendar

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giuse_boccia
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Hello!

I have been using Samsung Calendar for a couple of years on my Samsung Galaxy S21 FE. I use it to sync 4 different calendars (3 from Google, 1 from Outlook).

Some time ago, for each of my Google Accounts, there were two separate calendars: one for "normal events" (my_email>@gmail.com) and one for "birthdays" (Birthdays) of that account (NOTE: this is NOT the "Birthdays" calendar for Contacs on the device, but the one from the Google account). This was very useful because:

  • I could set two different colors, one for non-birthday events and one for birthdays
  • I could turn them on/off indipendently: meaning I could turn off birthdays to have a quick glance of my upcoming events (I have lots of birthdays so the calendar view is a bit "noisy" with them always on.

However, after a recent update, for each of my Google Account I have a single <my_email>@gmail.com calendar which has both the events and the birthdays: they are indistinguishable from each other having the same color, and I cannot turn the birthdays off without also turning off the normal events. It seems that the 2 calendars are merged into a single one.

This is not a minor inconvenience, it makes Samsung Calendar almost unusable for me, given that on my Google Account I have lots of Contacts with birthdays and they now mix with regular events.

I don't know if this is an intentional change or a bug, but I would for sure like the option to have 2 different toggles for birthdays and events, or at least a setting to hide birthdays from Google in the <my_email>@gmail.com calendar.

 

Thanks,

GB

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