Can’t Confirm Birthday On Discord [Fixed]

If you cannot confirm or verify your birthday on Discord, it may be due to a lot of reasons.

Most of the reason includes and are not limited to: you entered your birth date in the wrong format, slow internet, outdated app, or that Discord is down.

Once in a while, Discord asks users to verify their ages; this is to keep them and other users safe from underage violations.

Usually, when you cannot verify your age on Discord, this is the error message that you will see: “Failed to verify your birthday, please try again” written in red font.

Once you get that error message, it is best to stop trying to input the birth date over and over again as repeated actions can trigger the ‘ban’ bot.

In this guide, you will learn ways you can fix not being able to verify your birthday on Discord.

How to Fix Not Being Able To Verify Birthday on Discord

One of the major reasons for this error is usually the wrong date format.

Discord only displays and accepts the MM/DD/YYYY date format.

Moving on, to fix not being able to verify your birthday on Discord, you need to follow the fixes in this guide.

These fixes are not a step-by-step guide, they are more like methods, however, they do work and have solved this error for some Discord users.

Fix 1: Check the date format

Fix 2: Check your internet

Fix 3: Update your Discord app

Fix 4: Check if Discord is down

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Fix 5: Report the error to Discord support

Fix 1: Check the date format

As we mentioned, wrong date formats are one of the major causes of the: “Failed to verify your birthday, please try again” error on Discord.

Discord only accepts birthday in the MM/DD/YYYY (Month/Day/Year) format, so check the birthday you are inputting and make sure that the date format matches the accepted date format.

Fix 2: Check your internet

Another cause of not being able to verify your birthday on Discord can be due to slow internet.

Slow internet can hinder how a lot of online activities work, so make sure that your internet is fast and stable then try inputting your birthday again.

Fix 3: Update your Discord app

If after switching to fast internet and typing your birth date in the ‘accepted’ format, you are still not able to verify your birthday on Discord.

Then you have to update your Discord app, as your issue has now become a ‘bug’.

And since most app ‘bugs’ are usually fixed through updates, you may be surprised to discover that this birthday error on Discord will be fixed once you update the app.

Fix 4: Check if Discord is down

If Discord, in general, is down, then sadly, a lot of features are not going to work as they should including verifying your birthday.

You may even discover that the app or website becomes slow, even when your internet is okay and your app is updated.

You can check the status of the Discord site here for free.

Fix 5: Report the error to Discord support

We always try to include this option in all of our guides on this website as they are the surest but slowest way to get any error fixed.

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If you have tried all the fixes in this guide and you are still not able to verify your birthday on your end, you can report it to Discord support by sending a mail to this email.

Conclusion

The birthday verification error on Discord is mostly common on the app, the full error message is: “Failed to verify your birthday, please try again”.

Statistically, the most common cause for this error is entering your birth date in the wrong format.

The accepted date format on Discord is MM/DD/YYYY (Month/Day/Year), this format is also known as the American date format.

So, entering your date of birth in the American date format may fix this error for you, if not you can follow the other fixes mentioned in this guide.