Social Media · Windows & PC & mobile
Turn On Facebook Birthday Notifications
Source-checked About 10 minutes
Answer
Open Facebook notification settings, select Birthdays, and enable the notification channels you want. Phone-level notification permission must also be enabled for push alerts.
Prepare the correct account, device, files, and recovery path
Confirm the active Facebook profile, authentic identity, intended notification channel, and whether the control is available to that account before submitting or changing anything. Preserve required identity evidence privately and review the displayed consequence. Do not use a VPN, false region, duplicate profile, browser extension, or automation tool to bypass Meta's naming, privacy, or notification rules.
Open Facebook notification settings
Open Settings & privacy > Settings > Notifications. Labels can vary slightly between the app and desktop site.
Enable birthday reminders
Select Birthdays and turn on notifications, then choose push, email, or SMS only where Facebook offers them.
Allow phone notifications
In iPhone or Android system settings, allow notifications for Facebook and make sure Focus, battery optimization, or notification summaries are not suppressing them.
Understand missing birthdays
Facebook can only remind you about birthdays friends share. A friend who hides the day and month will not generate an upcoming-birthday notification.
Verify the result before making broader changes
Repeat the exact task described in “Turn On Facebook Birthday Notifications” and confirm the intended account, device, file, app, or service now behaves as described in the Answer. Check any changed setting again after one restart or fresh session where appropriate, and preserve the original data until the result is stable. If only one app, account, network, or file remains affected, keep the next recovery step limited to that scope.
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If it does not work
- If reminders remain absent, verify the friend shares a birthday and check Facebook plus phone-level notification delivery. Hidden birthdays cannot generate reminders.
Sources and verification
Checked against official documentation on . Scope: Windows & PC & mobile.
Follow the linked first-party guidance if labels differ after a platform update.