Re: Apple Holiday Calendar - Is there anything ‘current’ wherein Apple would give the option of “eliminating/deleting” from it’s prescribed “Holiday Calendar”, allowing Apple customers to ‘save space’ by not showing Holidays they do not adhere to???
Making it impossible to submit my question doesn’t speak well for “Apple”!
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iPad Pro, iPadOS 14
Yes, it is incumbent on the user to find the preferable set of holidays, if the default list of holidays provided by Apple is not acceptable. The list that some will want—particularly around religious holidays—will be the same list that others here will not.
Data storage associated with holiday entries is inconsequential at the scale we're all working with in recent years, and in this case the Apple holiday list is stored on Apple servers and is only cached on local devices as needed. What follows is a text-format representation of the entirety of the data involved, this extracted from the specs for the format. The stored format of this CalDAV data will be substantially smaller than what is shown here, too.
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Client//EN
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:1@example.com
SUMMARY:One-off Meeting
DTSTAMP:20041210T183904Z
DTSTART:20041207T120000Z
DTEND:20041207T130000Z
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:2@example.com
SUMMARY:Weekly Meeting
DTSTAMP:20041210T183838Z
DTSTART:20041206T120000Z
DTEND:20041206T130000Z
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:2@example.com
SUMMARY:Weekly Meeting
RECURRENCE-ID:20041213T120000Z
DTSTAMP:20041210T183838Z
DTSTART:20041213T130000Z
DTEND:20041213T140000Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
And as for the replies here, this is a user forum, and we are other users, and are not folks that work for Apple.
You will want to send your "only provide legal holidays" calendar suggestion to the folks at Apple, as they may or may not see suggestions made here: Product Feedback - Apple
bscuzz wrote:
Re: Apple Holiday Calendar - Is there anything ‘current’ wherein Apple would give the option of “eliminating/deleting” from it’s prescribed “Holiday Calendar”, allowing Apple customers to ‘save space’ by not showing Holidays they do not adhere to???
You can create your own holiday calendar using these instructions. You will then be able to edit out any holidays you find distasteful.
Create Your Own Holiday Calendar From A S… - Apple Community
Thousands of people post every day in this user-to-user forum without any problem, and get the answers they need. I’m sorry you found it so much more onerous than those thousands of other users.
The answer is that the holiday calendar is a subscribed calendar. That means it is “owned” by the entity that created it; it doesn’t exist on your phone, it exists on its creator's server and is displayed on your phone, and can only be edited by its creator.
There is no such thing as a “countrywide legal holiday”. In the US there are NO legal holidays; there are holidays that are specific to certain states, and holidays where US Government employees get the day off, but those only apply to government employees, and holidays that certain religions consider to be holidays. Apple’s holiday calendar includes the Federal employee days off, a few state holidays, a few holidays that are important to certain ethnic groups (Cinco de Mayo, for example, which celebrates Mexico’s defeat of France in 1862 and is informally Mexico’s independence day), and the major holidays of the 5 most widely practiced religions in the US.
If the Apple holiday calendar doesn’t suit you just uncheck it. You can then create your own holiday entries, or install one of the several thousand other published holiday calendars available on the Internet.
Here are a few of sources for holiday calendars:
The title is intended to be a description of what the question is about.
The holiday calendar is stored on a server and entries cached locally as needed.
The storage requirements for a calendar entry are inconsequential at the scales we are discussing here.
As for your actual issue here, you can de-select the Apple holiday calendar entirely, and find and subscribe to a calendar server with whatever combination of holidays you prefer. There are many such calendars available for subscription. Or you can create your own calendar for your own holiday preferences, possibly then also setting up a calendar server for that calendar and offering it to others.
The "title" prompt here in ASC is intended to provide some clue to the folks reading listings of questions what the question is about; a title for the question. This so that you get somebody that understands (for instance) CalDAV servers and calendar subscriptions, rather than somebody that might know more about mail servers, or any of the many other areas of questions that can get posted around here. This title so that you can more quickly get an answer to your question.
Your answer (like my difficulty in asking my question) is not helpful. If I read you correctly, the burden is on ME, your customer, to find a way to help myself. My comment on “taking up space” was not ‘about data storage’, but rather the appearance of the calendar itself. This over abundance of Holiday listings overshadow and hardly gives room for ‘my Dr appts or other personal adds to my calendar’! Traditionally ‘Calendar Holidays’ were those approved as Countrywide legal Holidays! It now seems ‘any’ day someone with the clout to deem a certain day a Holiday is “on your predetermined list of Holidays” with an explanation they’re not “nation-wide Holidays and may not be observed in my area - how ridiculous is that?. Why not let the ‘group of people’ who treasure/observe these obscure Holidays do the job you’re asking ‘me’ to do - or at least offer a Calendar choice of “Legal Holidays” for those who desire it - as it appears there are others asking the same question as I (never mind those who allow ‘you’ to decide for them because, as evidenced here, it’s a hassle! Sorry if I did not adhere to your “Title Prompt” (suppose I could have typed an “attention getting comment”) but ‘my question itself spells it out clearly!
bscuzz wrote:
Your answer (like my difficulty in asking my question) is not helpful. If I read you correctly, the burden is on ME, your customer, to find a way to help myself.
This is a user-to-user technical support forum. You're not Lawrence's customer.
- BUT to respond to: “Thousands of people post every day in this user-to-user forum without any problem, and get the answers they need. I’m sorry you found it so much more onerous than those thousands of other users.”
My initial question was not intended to be on the “user-to-user forum” - since obviously another user could not have answered my question. As well in reply to your claim that “thousands of other users” “get the answers they need” - there may be thousands who do, but my question was prompted by quite a few other users asking the same question I asked who DID NOT get the answers they needed!
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Idris Seabright, I did not choose to post on the “user-to-user forum” - but seems my post appeared on it and since you saw fit to reply . . I don’t know who Lawrence is, nor am I his customer. That said, I thank you for the Calendar link and lastly, I do not find any calendar “distasteful” - just Holidays that I do not adhere to taking ‘text space’ on my calendar. Geez, such a big deal over a simple question - it does ‘open ones eyes’ to things you knew nothing of!
You can subscribe to any holiday calendar of your choice.
On second thought, I have nothing to say.
Somehow I’m not surprised at your ‘rude’ reply to my comment - seems like I’ve invested in a bad product - shame on me!
That’ll be ‘the day’!
What is a “Title Prompt”? Does that mean a “Title Demand”?
Is there a way to remove holidays from my Calendar?
