hey MPU,
Just noticed after the last Fantastical update, all my birthdays in the calendar now just say “Birthday” instead of John Doe’s 30th Birthday. This only happens on macOS so far, iPhone seems to be okay.
Coincidentally, same time, my mac won’t sync properly with my phone for messages (I stopped counting). Did all the usual stuff of sign out, etc. no luck yet. Not sure if its related.
Anyone else?
I haven’t used Fantastical in years but I had the same problem recently in the iOS Google Calendar. I was seeing “John Doe’s Birthday” because the calendar was pulling birthday data direct from Google. I had to switch to the ‘system account’ to get the calculated “John Doe’s 30th Birthday” reminder that is created by the Apple calendar.
Sounds like you should find a similar solution in the Fantastical settings.
I’m up to date with all Fantastical (premium) releases on all devices, and do not experience the birthday issue. But, I wonder if the birthday issue (which can have related issues with Contacts and Apple Calendar), and the Messages sync issue are both symptoms of an iCloud issue?
Katie
No issues. The birthdays in all their glory should come from the contacts app:
https://flexibits.com/blog/2022/05/never-forget-a-birthday-again-with-fantastical-and-cardhop/
Does Fantastical have permission to access contacts? Maybe pull the permission and switch it on again. Is Birthdays checked at Settings → Calendars & Lists under Contacts? If so, do your Birthday entries vanish when you uncheck them? Do they come back when you check them again? If not, the data source for your Birthdays is not the Contacts app. Try to find the data source and have a look at the contents and setting for that data source. 
Restarted my computer, somehow it magically sorted itself out. (the Fantastical part that is).
I gave up on message sync, (unpopular opinion) lately the mac updates remind me of windows bloatware. I can’t find why my mac is using 335GB of ‘other system data’ and how that number fluctuates so badly. One day I have less than 100gb of free space and I get a bunch of notifications, the next day, I am back to normal.
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