Birthdate set up

I am trying to add a simple birthday question. I have published my survey, but the birth date is making the customers scroll back from 2021. Example. If you birthday is 1976, you have to scroll to 1976 from 2021...taking forever. Is there a quicker way to get there..or can the customer just type the answer. 

Thank you 

Hey @ErinMcDermott. Welcome to our Community! 🤩

The respondents can simply type the answer like I'm doing here. Can you do the same when you're filling out your Typeform? Hopefully, this will be easier than scrolling back! =)

@Mariana on mobile this process is arduous, unless you know the UI tricks. On Android and iOS it default pulls up a calendar picker that does not easily allow you to change year. It is proving to be a major drop off point for me.

@ctheath - We’re in the same position. Have a birthdate field and on mobile can only access the calendar - then click back monthly. That means if someone is 50 years old, they have to click over 600 times to reach their month/date of birth, which is not feasible and an obvious cause of drop off.  

Who monitors this space for prod dev improvements needed?

You should provide an option to make it a number field so we can just type in the date in number format, free-form style, without the use of a calendar on mobile. I would much rather type in, for example, 11222002 and have the field format accordingly than to use a cumbersome calendar on mobile.

Hi @aestevez Thanks for stopping by! That’s a great idea. You could also use the number question for the time being if you prefer this format. 

I would but then I would open myself up to false entries, as such a form wouldn’t know that months end at 12, days end at 31, etc. I also don’t see the option to limit the number of digits without entering a min/max. Lastly, it doesn’t add slashes or dashes in between each entry like the Date option does.

But thanks for the suggestion.

I have to second @aestevez ‘s response here. We got this feedback from a survey respondent. 

> ... it's very hard to enter your birth date on the form as it only provides a monthly calendar and you have to scroll back to the appropriate year -- so for someone my age I had to hit the back arrow almost 800 times.

On desktop the experience is great. But showing the calendar on mobile feels like a big UX mistake. The calendar is handy for certain types of dates, but for a birth date, typing each value in the same way we do in the desktop would be preferred. 

Entering this was so painful that we opted by just asking for the year instead of the full DOB 

Hi @mamadero Thanks for sending this feedback! The calendar view that appears on mobile is controlled by the browser, not us, so I’m afraid we don’t have any control over how the date field appears. 

You used the short text then or? I would like a number version where I could add min and max numbers, in my case 4 so a user could add birth year: 1973, 2012 etc but not 73 or 12 and not 12345. This should open the number keyboard on mobile.

@Mariana can you share how you made that typeable birthday field?

Hello @Liz 

Hope you are doing well. 

Can you share any update on the birthday picker? 

We still have the same issue when users use Android or iOS.

Regards

Jun 

Hi ​@Dooooo Thanks for stopping by! I’m afraid I don’t have any updates on this for the time being. However, if I do, you’ll see it posted here in the community first!