Why has Easter been removed from my calendar?

Apple has removed religious holidays from the standard U.S. Holidays calendar. Christmas seems to be an exception, perhaps in recognition of the fact that it is, for many people, a Capitalist holiday, not a Christian one.

See Lawrence's instructions for subscribing to other calendars in this thread:

How come Easter isn’t showing up on my calander but all the other holidays are?

sandrafrombohemia wrote:

Where can I go to complain and try to get them to include Good Friday and Easter?

Those holidays have already been restored Sandra.

You really ought to educate yourself before complaining about a problem that no longer exists. You can start by reading the replies in this very Discussion.

For example:

John Galt wrote:

The most obvious explanation is that it's an oversight. We will know when Apple restores it. In the meantime subscribe to https://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/Christian-Holidays.ics and your troubles are over. All you need to do is click that link and the rest is more or less automatic.

How hard was that.

I was saying it is an official holiday, that's what makes the difference. In some countries Easter is an official holiday and according to posts I have read Easter still appears in those countries. Christmas is an official US holiday and as such is treated the same as 4th of July or Thanksgiving, it just happens to to have a Christian name. Easter is also pretty secular (stores in my state used to close) but it isn't an official holiday so it is gone.

So it isn't a matter of degree of secularization of a religious day, if it's an official holiday it stays, if it isn't, it goes. If it's a secular event of note, it stays. Valentine's Day happens to have origins with a saint but is essentially 99.9% secular so it probably squeaked through.

Christmas seems to be an exception, perhaps in recognition of the fact that it is, for many people, a Capitalist holiday, not a Christian one.

It's also an official holiday (which happens to bear a Christian name) whereas Easter is not. Basically the calendar is now secular.

Limnos wrote:

Christmas seems to be an exception, perhaps in recognition of the fact that it is, for many people, a Capitalist holiday, not a Christian one.

It's also an official holiday (which happens to bear a Christian name) whereas Easter is not. Basically the calendar is now secular.

Exactly, it's now a holiday with a highly secular kind of celebration.

Limnos wrote:

I was saying it is an official holiday, that's what makes the difference. In some countries Easter is an official holiday and according to posts I have read Easter still appears in those countries. Christmas is an official US holiday and as such is treated the same as 4th of July or Thanksgiving, it just happens to to have a Christian name. Easter is also pretty secular (stores in my state used to close) but it isn't an official holiday so it is gone.

I understand exactly what you're saying. I'm agreeing with you.

The most obvious explanation is that it's an oversight. We will know when Apple restores it. In the meantime subscribe to https://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/Christian-Holidays.ics and your troubles are over. All you need to do is click that link and the rest is more or less automatic.

It has been fixed. You may not see the update until a new iOS update is available, or you can back up your device, erase it, and then restore it to reinstall the iOS:

Back up your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using iCloud or iTunes - Apple Support

Then:

How to erase your iOS device - Apple Support

or

iCloud: Erase your device

or

Find My iPhone: Erase your device

Then:

Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to factory settings - Apple Support

Then:

Restore from an iCloud or iTunes backup - Apple Support

Cheers,

GB

sandrafrombohemia wrote:

Seriously. How ridiculous is that? There should be options where we can delete holidays. Include them all if you want to be so culturally tolerant and then allow us to delete the ones we don't need.

Or, you could subscribe to a calendar that better meets your needs. You are not restricted to the one Apple provides.

I find it interesting that Easter and Good Friday have been removed but the national holiday of "April Fools Day" remains. I was also unaware that Cinco de Mayo had become a US holiday. Both of these (according to Apple) are more important than Easter. Shame on you, Apple!

It seems that they have "fixed" it but now you get to know when all Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and other "holidays" are as well. If I wanted to know when Easter was I could just add it but now that enough people complained we get to see holidays that we don't celebrate. As far as I can tell these were added overnight to my calendar:

• Lunar New Year - Feb 16
• Holi - Mar 2
• Palm Sunday - Mar 25
• Good Friday - Mar 30
• Passover - Mar 31
• First Day of Ramadan - May 15
• Orthodox Easter - Apr 8
• Earth Day - Apr 22
• Eid-al-Fitr - Jun 15
• Juneteenth - Jun 19luna
• Eid al-Adha - Aug 20
• Rosh Hashanah - Sep 10
• Yom Kippur - Sep 19
• Ashura - Sep 20
• Columbus Day - Oct 8
• Indigenous Peoples' Day - Oct 8

  Yes the above two are separated into two different holidays

• Diwali - Nov 7
• Hanukkah - Dec 3
• Kwanzaa - Dec 26

anypats wrote:

It seems that they have "fixed" it but now you get to know when all Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and other "holidays" are as well. If I wanted to know when Easter was I could just add it but now that enough people complained we get to see holidays that we don't celebrate. As far as I can tell these were added overnight to my calendar:

Oh, that's peachy. Just peachy. I guess I'll be unticking the Apple U.S. holidays calendar and finding one that better meets my needs.

caniefrommoneta wrote:

I don't see the change yet and I just updated to 11.2.6 earlier today. Where did you see the change? Apple sounds like a bratty child. "If you don't like what I did I'll go to the other extreme". The phone is actually my wife's and is a progression from long ago when I bought her an iPod Touch with 32 gig. Cost a fortune! Then when the updates ceased due to lack of memory I was amazed. She now has a iPhone SE and iPad air.

So, you think that representing all of the major holidays for the major religions is going to the extreme? How about that it is fair. Why should only Christian religious holidays be on the calendar? Would have been far easier to simply have left it as a secular calendar so people could select and use calendars for their own religion (or not).

I'm not seeing the change on my iPhone 7Plus either. I see it on my Mac, but not my iOS device.

However, I am seeing it on my iPhone 5s, which I just put into Recovery Mode and updated the iOS for last night. So, I'm thinking that it may show up on iOS devices that haven't been recently messed with in the next update?

GB

anypats wrote:

It seems that they have "fixed" it but now you get to know when all Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and other "holidays" are as well. If I wanted to know when Easter was I could just add it but now that enough people complained we get to see holidays that we don't celebrate. As far as I can tell these were added overnight to my calendar:

• Lunar New Year - Feb 16
• Holi - Mar 2
• Palm Sunday - Mar 25
• Good Friday - Mar 30
• Passover - Mar 31
• First Day of Ramadan - May 15
• Orthodox Easter - Apr 8
• Earth Day - Apr 22
• Eid-al-Fitr - Jun 15
• Juneteenth - Jun 19luna
• Eid al-Adha - Aug 20
• Rosh Hashanah - Sep 10
• Yom Kippur - Sep 19
• Ashura - Sep 20
• Columbus Day - Oct 8
• Indigenous Peoples' Day - Oct 8

Yes the above two are separated into two different holidays

• Diwali - Nov 7
• Hanukkah - Dec 3
• Kwanzaa - Dec 26

Oh, that's just great! Added all of those holidays, but left off Patriots' Day. I think that New Englanders should be up in arms about that. First we lost the Super Bowl, now this....it's enough to make you want to go back to landlines and paper calendars.

GB

Well, that's what we all suggested here when everyone got all up in arms about Easter - just subscribe to a calendar that has your holidays. But that, apparently, wasn't good enough for the Christian hoards....

GB