ios 7.1 us holidays calendar

I Find it really annoying.

im sure there must be more people feeling the same way.

Hope apple finds this and fixes it.

Hey has anyone found a fix for this? It is extremely annoying. I have unchecked the us holidays on my iPhone and iPad and I still get the 9am holiday alerts. Not only am I not religious, but I really done want to be alerted to anything I didn't subscribe to!! C'mon Apple, figure this one out!

It's pretty awful. This spring I've received Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Passover, and Good Friday. I did see somewhere that changing in settings your region to outside the US may make this go away. Not sure what else may change with it though.

Yay!! Change your region in Settings/general/international/region format to Canada. The US Holidays 'subscribed' disappears.

It's always a holiday in Canada because of the nationalized healthcare and back bacon.

Unfortunately changing to Canada now subscribes you to Canadian holidays. I haven't been able to find a fix.

I too find this offensive.

Changing the region format in Settings->General->International->Region format to "Europe" gets rid of whatever local holiday calendar and doesn't create a new one. I don't know if the date and 24h time format matter to you, but finally no alarms at 9:00 in the morning!

I was able to turn off the alerts for US Holidays by combining ideas from some of the earlier posts.

1. Go to settings for Calendars and change the default alert times all to "none"

2. Change regional settings to something like "Canada" and let the calendar import the Canadian calendar.

3. Change regional settings back to United States and let the calendar import the US Holidays again.

I can't help those of you who are offended by having religious holidays (or days like "Earth Day") on the calendar but at least the alerts are gone. I noticed that the default alert settings for calendars impacted other calendars I imported too. Apparently it isn't just for when you create a NEW event but also when importing other calendars.

Thanks! Those steps worked perfectly!

Thanks. That fixed it.

thanks it worked for me also. i dont mind the certain days being marked on the calendar i just didnt want alerts about them.

Many thanks for those who discovered & posted about this workaround!! The US Holidays calendar subscription has been bugging me since it appeared. No matter how many times I un-checked it and set the alerts to "none", they'd come right back, eventually causing comical levels of annoyance. I don't mind that Apple gave us these based on our region, only that I couldn't "really" turn it off or silence the alerts. I sync my calendars from my MacPro and don't like other apps messing with them. Hopefully this "fix" sticks. Time will tell.

For those who may be offended that you're confronted with religious holidays I can say only this. I'm non-religious, don't care to follow them either, and know where you're coming from. However, it is quite useful to at least have a reference to check, as many will affect things like the stock market hours, business & school operating hours, and things like air travel and hotel rates. Rather than offended, I do find it useful. But it's super annoying to not be able to control visibility & alerts ourselves as we so choose!!

Thx again for the fix.

jh

I found this thread searching for a way to turn off the annoying 9am calendar holiday alerts. I don't have a Mac and don't use iCloud. Anyway, will simply removing calendar from the notification center on iphone 4s stop the alerts? Thanks!

Removing calendar from the notification center should silence alarms if you set it accordingly, and if you want to silence ALL calendar alerts. I use mine for business meetings and such, so don't want to block them all. The solution in this thread submitted by widgettier works great. Change your region as noted, and change it back and you should find that the alerts are gone and the US Holidays subscription remains unselected. Good luck!

Well I'm having similar infuriating problems with the calendar and alerts too. I just can't get to the bottom of it.

I too was getting alerts for US holidays but since I'm in the UK I really didn't need this. I have now switched it to subscribing to UK hols and thought I had got rid of the pesky US ones. But out of the blue this morning my iphone alerts me to the fact that it is Memorial Day. Only my iphone did this and it said it was in Calendars but it doesn't show up in the calendar. Curious.

There seems to be no way of totally unsubscribing to holidays, just not displaying.

Also I have a really weird rogue birthday alert coming up in August for someone I have never heard of, called Joseph Sardin. This is undeletable. It says it originates from contacts birthdays on one of my gmail accounts and when I uncheck show birthdays for that account it will hide it. But I can't delete it! What's going on here. I feel like I'm not in control of my own diary.

My set up is a MacBookPro running 10.8.5 an iPad mini running OS 7.1 and an iPhone 4s running 6.1.3. I also have 3 gmail accounts. I just have the main one checked for calendar and iCloud.

Any thoughts?

This is ridiculous