Anniversary or OTHER dates in Contacts not showing in Calendar

It's there, just hard to find. In your Contacts open up Settings > Template> Add Field. In the pull-down menu, click Dates. Then it will appear in your Contacts just below Birthday. You can set it up as 'anniversary', 'other', or 'custom'. And if you enter the date it will then tell you on your calendar what anniversary it is and will repeat every year.

This was supposed to be a reply to @starkeef but somehow ended up down here.

The steps you provided are correct in adding it to the template. However, this just adds the field to the template; it does not put it on your calendar.

Here is an easy way to do this.

Start at your Calendar and add an event on the day you want saved. Title it, for example, “Dave and Lisa’s Anniversary” and then scroll down to the repeat menu and select “every year”.

Once saved it will appear every year.

BusyCal is a paid app. You can subscribe to it and put it on your Mac. And you can buy the app for your phone. And if you set it up correctly it syncs both devices and works just like Apple's Calendar, except it's a much better app. I've bought a lot of apps but this one is 100% worth the money for me.

amaromm wrote:

I want to add anniversary date for contacts, but I can’t find “template” in settings or contacts ???

Are you using an iPhone or a Mac? If you're using an iPhone, thee is no such setting. If you're using a Mac, go to Card>Add Field...>Edit Template.

I have a work around: put both in Birthdays, but use the year for anniversaries and just the month and date for birthdays. Then when they show up in your Birthdays calendar, you know the one that says "Joe's 14th birthday" is really Joe's 14th anniversary. If I don't know the date, I but 1900 for the year so it's obvious that it's an anniversary. It's not perfect, but it works for me. And btw, it really is a huge ball drop by Apple that they don't have better ways to keep track of the important dates in your people's lives.

Reply to rmm1 ; Calendars 📆

This may be useful :

Use iCloud calendar subscriptions - Apple https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202361

I don’t have BusyCal on my phone that I have found.. where do I go to it on?

No, it doesn’t.

I want to add anniversary date for contacts, but I can’t find “template” in settings or contacts ???

Correct! I just did it and confirmed.

Agree, yes please bring this back!

Yes please update IOS to include other dates in Ical. It use to show anniversary dates.

Never mind. Doesn't really work because you can only have one birthday, and someone you know the anniversary of is probably also someone you know the birthday of.

I submitted feedback for this specific issue as a broken report rather than a feature request.