Uk Holidays in calendar not updating for year 2022

A workaround for this problem, which it appears is not going to be fixed any time soon, is to subscribe to an external .ics calendar by following the steps below:

1. Tap “Settings” on the Home screen
2. Select “Mail, Contacts, Calendars”
3. Select “Add Account…”
4. Select “Other”, then “Add Subscribed Calendar”
5. Enter https://www.officeholidays.com/ics/united-kingdom, then tap “Next”
6. Tap “Save” to finish. 

After completing the above steps, Public Holidays will be marked in the calendar on your mobile device.

If the fix is not for you, it's a simple case to remove the subscribed .ics

This is happening for many countries. I am in Australia and get the same thing, no events after December 31 2021.

Let me save you some time wasting. The Apple calendars are missing information, no amount of switching options off then on, or removing or resetting will fix this. To see what I mean have a look at the following url. This is the source of the info for the Apple calendar subscription. You can see it stops at the end of 2021 (as of the time of this posting). This explains why you can’t get info for any 2022 or beyond.

https://calendars.icloud.com/holidays/gb_en.ics

So the only way for the official Apple calendar subscription to start working again is if Apple populate the info in that file on their servers. Until that happens we’re all going to have to suck it up. You wouldn’t expect that update to be much of an effort from them and it doesn’t require any OS updates. Interestingly the US version of that file stops at the end of 2022, so I expect they will fix it then at the latest or their home market will kick up a big stink.

In the meantime, for those using other calendar sources - be careful that your source is trustworthy. Over time there have been security risks with external data feeds containing deliberately crafted malicious payloads exercising security flaws. We have been told the known flaws have all been fixed.. and then we wake up 3 days later to find a new one. The data might be good now, but can you be sure that their server is secure and that it won’t be maliciously altered? That’s a nice juicy honeypot for a hacker, change one file and then have potentially millions of iOS devices updated automagically.

Me? I will keep my subscription to the Apple calendar active, in the unlikely event it will be updated by Apple soon. In the meantime i will use the temp workaround from j0hn4. It works for Australia and other countries and the data source seems clean without annoying ads. Here is a list of all their countries https://www.officeholidays.com/subscribe

Hey. I’ve been having this issue too. It’s been so frustrating. I’ve just managed to get it working.

I went to settings > general > language & region.

I changed my region to United States.

Then went onto the calendar app > calendars and unticked UK Holidays (it may say US Holidays at this point) closed the calendar app. Then reopened and ticked US Holidays. This then displayed the US Holidays in my calendar.

So I went back into the settings and changed my region back to United Kingdom. And now in my calendar app, it’s showing all the UK holidays.

Sorry if my instructions are a bit long winded. I’ve never written on a forum before, but I was getting so frustrated with this apple calendar and just relieved I’ve finally got it displaying UK holidays for 2022.

I hope this works for you!

j0hn4 wrote:

there is an .ics file on the .GOV UK website, which only subscribes the Bank Holidays for England and Wales., which you may consider safer:

https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays/england-and-wales.ics

This is top stuff. Added this as a calendar subscription, named it and finally can see them again no thanks to Apple

Try this below, it worked for me.

1. settings
2. general
3. Language & region
4. (if on Uk) change to USA and see if the bank holidays return, if it does, then change it back to Uk and then the bank holidays return for Uk for 2022, 2023 and so on. Must be a glitch in iOS 15.2 that resets it.

hope that helps - it worked for me.

regards Barry

UK Holidays Regional .ics file has been modified on the servers, it now covers 2020-2025 and can be checked manually at:

https://calendars.icloud.com/holidays/gb_en.ics

It should update soon on all devices , but I think it’ depenfs on PUSH or FETCH updates which can be changed in Settings Accounts on iOS devices from Auto to Manual and several time periods in between (ie. Hourly, 30mins and 15mins)

Anybody not sure probably best to just wait a while.

Today I checked the apple calendars, and Australia (as well as the UK apple official calendar) are now both working up until 2025. No software updates needed because they updated the master file at this location https://calendars.icloud.com/holidays/gb_en.ics

if it isn’t displaying for you just pull down on your calendar list to refresh them and you should be good. I removed my officeholidays.com list and all is now good (but officeholidays.com do offer a pretty good service). Thanks to j0hn4 for giving us a great alternative

What you do go to general, language and region, change the region say to USA and see if bank holidays come up if it does then change it back to your Australian region, then your bank holidays come up.

worked for me in Uk

Sorted my calendar issues by using URL https://www.officeholidays.com/ics/united-kingdom/england in subscribed calendars (add calendar). It’s free.

maybe similar in USA.

juts a few mins ago I unticked and re ticked up holidays on both devices, then pulled down the calendar listing window and they refreshed.

Hi I spent hours on the phone with Apple Support, after taking over my devices, getting me to reset everything & then escalating it they came back after 3 days and told me it’s now a known issue and is with developers. Guess we await an update. My contact was 18/8/22

My wife had this issue on her iPhone 13

She also has Google calendar but used the apple iPhone calendar

However we went to settings on the Google calendar and selected bank holidays for the uk.

don’t know why but this has activated the bank holidays on the default apple calendar and all now working.

Hope this helps

Downloading the .ics file (GB_en-GB.ics) and opening it in a text editor reveals a little about it. For example, the date stamp is 3rd September 2019, although the first year of calendar dates is 2018. I can only assume that it was last updated in 2019. I have changed a couple of details for an event (Line 130, from "RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;COUNT=4" to "RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;COUNT=5")) and opened the file in the Calendar app (having already removed the subscription to the online file). Now the entry for New Year's Day 2022 is visible.

Clearly, this is not a technical issue, nor is it absolutely necessary to have the latest OS version on your device; the problem is down to the person who last made an update to the file in 2019 has done nothing since. It is quite possible that the pandemic has had something to do with it, in that the individual may no longer be around to carry out the changes (e.g. in September 2020 and September 2021) and one would expect Apple to know who it was and who might be taking over. In the meantime, I shall be trying to devise a program to emulate what has been done in the past and will post my results here IDC.

Hi,

Whilst Apple get the fix sorted, I have subscribed to this:

United Kingdom calendar subscription | Office Holidays

Seems to work ok from 2022 onwards.

Hope it helps.

If you link another email account to calendar (hotmail or gmail) you can use their UK holidays … tho frustratingly hotmail has the old Spring Bank Holiday rather than the jubilee holidays. It’s a fudge but will get me by while it’s fixed by Apple eventually!