Uk Holidays in calendar not updating for year 2022

I spoke (actually spoke) with Apple support a few days ago. They have confirmed it’s an known “issue” and will be fixed in due course (no timescale available). Also confirmed it’s not OS related, so not dependent on Monterey (or any other OS.).

Personally I’m not bothered about it showing Christmas Eve or NYE or any other “event” that’s not a B/H (Burns night isn’t a B/H for example but it’s nice to know when it is). But I do want it to show dates beyond 31/12/21!

In the meantime follow what Jrhop says on the last page if you are in the UK:

"You can also subscribe to the Gov ics from https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays if you click the link on that page you can import them or you can use https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays/england-and-wales.ics to subscribe as a new calendar."

If anyone is a bit wary of subscribing to 3rd party servers, as I gave earlier:

https://www.officeholidays.com/ics/united-kingdom

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

I also discovered that entering either of the above URLs into the DuckDuckGo Browser from iOS App Store displays the source contents of the .ics file(s), where it's possible to look in more detail for anything untoward!

No UK public holidays for 2022 showing for me on iOS, iPadOS or macOS, all running latest versions. All previous years are fine.

All my devices show it… even old iPads no longer supported with software updates.. You do need to perhaps close the calendar and it will refresh. Good luck.

How about also trying to deselect the Apple holiday calendar. Then tick it again. It might force it. Just a thought.

Just had this response from Apple Support after chasing them up:

I am advised that up the upcoming release of the MacOS Monterey in the coming month this issue is expected to be resolved.

I apologise for the inconvenience to you and am hopeful that this matter will be resolved shortly.

On an iPhone/iPad, open Calendar and tap on ‘Calendars’. Tap on the info (red circled i) button of the one you want to remove, scroll to the bottom and tap on ‘Delete Calendar’. In MacOS, right-click the calendar and select the appropriate option.

CocoKhan_ wrote: "More people should be speaking up through webchat/telephony and letting apple know..."

Also here:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

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Go to settings and into Calendar, find week starting on and click Monday. All public holidays will then appear on the calendar when reopened.

Hi Scruty,

Thanks again for your follow up. We understand how important Holidays in calendars are. If you were able to see calendar events for the year ahead but are not able to now, they might not be working as expected. The next best step is for you to Contact Apple Support to have it looked at more closely.

Have a nice day!

Since my message on August 20th I've had this email from Apple Support, which doesn't take us much further:

Our engineering Team have just reverted on the issue of the missing UK holidays calendar items after 2021.

This issue is currently under investigation by Apple Engineering Team.

Apple has received reports of the symptom you describe and is currently investigating this issue. Keep your software up-to-date. You may also want to check the support website from time to time for possible updates about this issue. Further updates, if any, may come by way of a software update, knowledge base article or software release.

Apple does not yet have a complete understanding of the issue. Therefore, it is not possible for Apple to promise a solution or predict when any investigation will be complete.

I apologise for the inconvenience to you and hope that our Engineers find a solution shortly.

I don't see UK holidays for 2022 either and it is now late October. I'm looking at both a Mac (Big Sur, 11.5.2) and a recently updated iPhone (14.8). It's worse than that though: New Year's Eve, 31 December 2021, is down as a holiday. I nearly got suckered into making a business-related decision on that basis, but just thought I would check as it is so unusual. New Year's Eve is never a 'UK holiday' and we hardly need reminding of the date! Christmas Eve is also down as a holiday (ditto). (I could go on, of course -- there are plenty of other bogus holidays in Apple's UK Holidays Calendar. Apple should restrict the 'holidays' it puts in the Calendar to genuine ones (known in the UK as Bank Holidays).

[Edit: of course the bogus holidays thing is a result of the different meaning of 'holiday' in the UK and the US. No one in the UK would describe Remembrance Day as a 'holiday', for example.]

i Agree. I have taken to posting Twitter complaints to Apple customer service. I get a response straight away but it just keeps saying there is no fix time but keep updating Blah blah blah. I suggest everyone with Twitter that wants this fixed joins the complaint there- they don’t like public Criticism. Fingers crossed they will be moved to act.

This is todays Apple auto response

https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Fdirect_messages%2Fcreate%2FAppleSupport%3Fuser_id%3D3309375033%26cn%3DbWVzc2FnZQ%253D%253D&t=1&cn=ZG1fbWVzc2FnZV9lbWFpbA%3D%3D&sig=47da7d26b05ac25d913ea7602b1ccc0fe1fbfe91&iid=9e262e27a8d84fe486901fe75d6b25f7&uid=143583251&nid=296+3