What’s up with the US holidays calendar

I agree. My calendar is now littered with pointless holidays, many of which are either irrelevant or I never heard of. There NEEDS to be a way to edit this. I don’t need

Lunar New Year

Holi (?)

Orthodox Easter

First Day of Ramadan

Eid al-Fitr (?)

Juneteenth (?)

Eid al-Adha (?)

Ashura (?)

Diwali (?)

Etc

I’ve used this calander for years, this is all new and it’s cluttering it up.

How do I find/add a better calendar with less nonsense?

I, too, was annoyed by all of the "weird" holidays popping up in my calendar, so I unsubscribed from Apple's "US Holidays" calendar. I found one that hits all of the "big" holidays, including Easter and other Christian holidays that people who aren't necessarily Christian or Catholic still like to see on their calendars.

webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics

Hope this helps some people!

Kurt,

You are the one that needs to read the questions. My question involved the US Holidays name DISAPPEARING. It cannot be edited or deleted.

Any ideas? I thought not. More interesting to carry on the inane discussion about holidays.

I have noticed this too. Why are these non-US Holidays included on a calendar named as such? The calendar should either be renamed (and I'll unsubscribe to it) or these other additions should be compiled in some other calendar.

jrdaskibumm wrote:

What the **** is up with the “US Holiday” calendar? When did holi, Cinco de Mayo, Ramadan and other non-US holidays get put on this calendar? Is there a calendar with the 11 US holidays one can subscribe too?

All of those are holidays celebrated by people who are citizens of the U.S. Why are they "non-US"?

auralto wrote:

Kurt,

You are the one that needs to read the questions. My question involved the US Holidays name DISAPPEARING. It cannot be edited or deleted.

Any ideas? I thought not. More interesting to carry on the inane discussion about holidays.

The issue was that your question was buried in a thread that was about an entirely different topic. If you want a question to be carefully considered and responded to, it needs to be in a place that is obvious. Putting a post like yours in the middle of a contentious thread is almost guaranteed to get no notice.

What have you done to troubleshoot the issue? Have you reset your device? Have you tried turning off Calendars in iCloud on the device and then turning it back on?

Do you have a Mac? If so, go to the Calendar on the Mac, click on Calendars>Preferences, and uncheck the "Show Holidays Calendar".

GB

turaloo how did you get screen shots? ok...
It WAS us holidays (or your locale specific for UK, FR, etc)
Then it became "Show Holidays calendar" but.. if you already had US Holidays selected, the label doesn't seem to update until you cleared the checkbox! So it says US Holidays while giving general holidays. (Thus everyone's confusion)
It is very possible that it is being renamed again, or removed entirely, and you are seeing the effects of this. We won't know until later

jrdaskibumm wrote:

I understand that what I wanted to know was why they changed to old list to add all the others. Apparently the PC police have taken over Apple. I have built my own repeating holidays for now. Once I figure out how to create a calendar file I will upload it to Caldav.

I personally use Week Cal and have for many years now. It will sync and display multiple calendars (mine shows my work exchange calendar which includes our company holiday schedule, my personal iCloud calendar, a group work calendar, and Week Cal subscription calendars for my local weather, Week Cal’s version of US Holidays (which does have some differences from both Apple’s and Microsoft’s), and one for Public Canadian Holidays). You can then custom color code the combined displays of multiple calendars.

Week calendar has a big subscription calendar store - many are free or a single one time payment (e.g. my weather calendar was a single one time lifetime charge of a couple of bucks).

Week Calendar for iPad by WeekCal B.V. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/week-calendar-for-ipad/id434143491?mt=8

jrdaskibumm wrote:

I agree so frustrated with PC mentality

Then you are free to tell it to another forum elsewhere on the web. Otherwise this forum is for questions regarding Apple products or services, not for personal views.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5952

as answered repeatedly in this thread you need to ask apple

apple.com/feedback

if you would like to discuss apples policies as to why you need to do so on some other forum. see the terms you agreed to abide by when you signed up to use this forum

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5952

Hessa333 wrote:

That's not true. I have several 11 of my own calendars and this one that I can't delete. I will click on "hide all" and then select the calendar that I want to view. Now instead of just clicking on "show all" to show my 11 calendars, I have to now also click on the holidays calendar to uncheck it. I know this is a first world problem, but again, my point is that we should be allowed to delete the calendar completely from our iphones/ipads.

Yes, what I said is still true. If you uncheck the calendar, it stays unchecked until you check it again. If you select check all, you're checking it again.

Submit your feedback to Apple here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Mactbc99 wrote:

Actually to me a US holiday is one recognized by most all employers and comes with a day off or extra pay if worked. Of course it depends on contracts and corporate rules. “Beginning of Ramadan“ doesn’t reflect a US Holiday. It is a religious holiday. Palm Sunday is a religious holy day but also not a US Holiday. Easter is a religious Holiday but also not a US Holiday. Check the post office or a bank for US Holidays. Apple seems to have their Holidays (US) confused with religious holidays.

Well, feel free to let Apple know: https://apple.com/feedback. Posting in this user to user forum where it will not be seen by anyone at Apple with authority to change it is a waste of time.

BTW, Before February 22 Apple's US Holidays calendar was just what you are asking for. But there was a huge outcry on social media about the fact that Easter was not on it, so Apple capitulated and added back religious holidays.

Uncle_HairBall wrote:

Trouble is, WHEN did this become a US holiday??? I’m sure it is an important date overseas but not so much here as to labeled a “US holiday”.

Remove the reference as a “US holiday” and this discussion will cease to be.

Yet create a “Islam Holiday” and stick it there.

Just not where you placed it

Tell Apple what you think about the label of the subscription calendar: Apple - Feedback.

However, why would you think Eid al-Fitr is more important overseas (unless you mean the Middle East), when there are over 3 million Muslims in this country. Some of us actually like knowing when people we work with or know in our town are celebrating their important holidays.

And US Holidays is not specific to any religion, whereas Islam Holidays is. So, the easiest solution is to simply choose a different calendar.

GB

Why don't you tell Apple, instead of the other users in this user-to-user forum who are sick of people posting totally useless comments that have already been posted over and over and over and over...usually be people who didn't bother to read any of the thread they posted to?

Heres the spot: https://apple.com/feedback