Your birthdate is one of the more sensitive pieces of information tied to your identity, yet Facebook displays it by default unless you specifically adjust the visibility.
This guide walks through exactly how to hide your birthday on Facebook in 2026.
Step 1: Open Facebook Settings
- Open the Facebook app and tap your profile picture.
- Tap the three-line menu, then Settings & privacy.
- Select Settings.
Step 2: Access Personal Information
- Tap Personal information or go through Accounts Center.
- Select Birthday.
Step 3: Adjust Birthday Visibility
- Next to your birthday, tap the audience selector icon (often showing options like a globe, people icon, or lock).
- Choose your preferred visibility: Public, Friends, Friends except…, Only me, or a custom selection.
Action step: Select Only me if you want your birthdate completely hidden from everyone, including friends, while still keeping the information on file for Facebook’s own internal purposes like age verification.
Step 4: Adjust Visibility for Month/Day vs. Full Date Separately
Facebook allows different visibility settings for your full birthdate versus just the month and day.
Action step: Consider setting your year of birth to Only me while keeping the month and day visible to friends, since this lets friends still see birthday reminders and wish you well without exposing your exact age publicly.
How This Affects Facebook Dating
If you use Facebook Dating, birthday and age information function somewhat differently within that specific feature, since age verification remains necessary for the dating feature to work properly.
Action step: Understand that hiding your birthday from your main profile doesn’t affect age display within Facebook Dating specifically, since this separate feature maintains its own age-related display logic tied to its core functionality.
Reviewing Where Else Your Age Might Be Inferred
Even with your birthday hidden, other account details can sometimes make your approximate age inferable to others.
Action step: Consider reviewing older posts, photos, or life event entries on your profile that might indirectly reveal your age or birth year, since hiding your birthday field specifically doesn’t retroactively scrub other contextual clues you may have shared over the years.
Setting a Reminder to Review Privacy Settings Periodically
Facebook occasionally updates its settings structure, sometimes affecting previously configured privacy choices.
Action step: Set a periodic reminder to review your birthday and other sensitive information visibility settings every several months, since platform updates have occasionally reset or relocated specific privacy configurations in ways worth periodically double-checking.
How to Hide Your Birthday on Desktop
Prefer using a browser? Here’s the process:
- Go to Facebook.com and log in.
- Click your profile icon, then Settings & privacy → Settings.
- Select Accounts Center → Personal information → Birthday.
- Adjust the audience settings the same way as the mobile app.
Does Hiding Your Birthday Stop Friends From Getting Reminders?
If you hide your birthday entirely, friends generally won’t receive Facebook’s automatic birthday reminder notifications about you.
Action step: If you still want friends to know it’s your birthday without revealing your exact age, use the month/day visible while year hidden approach described above, since this preserves birthday reminders while protecting your specific birth year.
Why People Choose to Hide Their Birthday
Common reasons include:
- Reducing identity theft risk, since birthdate is commonly used in security verification elsewhere
- General preference for keeping age private
- Avoiding unwanted attention or targeted advertising tied to age-based demographics
Action step: Consider birthdate as one of several pieces of identifying information worth protecting for security reasons specifically, not just personal preference, since birthdates are frequently used as a verification data point for other accounts and services beyond Facebook itself.
Can You Change Your Birthday Information Entirely?
If your birthdate is incorrect on your account, you can edit it directly, separate from just adjusting visibility.
- Go to the same Birthday section under Personal information.
- Tap to edit the actual date rather than just the visibility settings.
Action step: Be aware that Facebook may limit how frequently you can change your actual birthdate (not just its visibility), as a security measure against repeated identity-related changes.
Common Issues When Hiding Your Birthday
Setting not saving?
Force close and reopen the app, then try again — this usually resolves temporary sync issues.
Friends still seeing birthday reminders after hiding it?
Confirm you adjusted the correct setting, since month/day and full date visibility are sometimes controlled separately, and only fully hiding both prevents all reminder notifications.
Birthday still showing in search results or your About section?
Double check all relevant visibility settings, since Facebook can display birthday information in multiple places (About section, search results) that may need separate confirmation depending on your app version.
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Final Thoughts
Hiding your birthday on Facebook takes just a few taps, with the flexibility to fully hide it or keep just the month and day visible for birthday wishes while protecting your specific birth year. Consider this a meaningful security step beyond just personal preference, given how often birthdates get used as identity verification information elsewhere online, and remember to periodically review this and related privacy settings as Facebook’s interface continues to evolve.
