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?
iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.1, iTunes 11
Just figured out how to. The only way to get rid of these newly added holidays showing On the Apple calendar is to Unsubribe/uncheck the Apple ‘US Holidays’ that now comes standard in IOS apparently, and then subscribe to a 3rd party calender that doesn't have every holiday throughout the world. My only interest in doing this was to have the minimal standard Holidays on the calender that would usually involve: time off for work, restaurant closures, bank closures, ect. I would think most agree the new PC (political correct) Apple calender makes it inconvenient and clutters things up, esp. on the iPhone, trying to see what that dot means only to find it has no relevance to the days activities. Here’s a solution on how to fix for now if anybody is interested.
1) On the IOS device>select the Calender App>select Calenders at bottom>uncheck US Holidays-all US holidays will now be removed from showing on your Calender.
2)
Copy:
webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics
then Email the link (or another3rd party calender link of your choice) to the IOS device you want to add it to. Click the new US calender link from your email and IOS will give an option to add to calender. Add the calender. And that is it, new calender will show with the ‘standard USobserved holidays’ as in past generations of IOS Calenders.
Hope this helps others.
And I explained that you cannot download calendars by clicking on them. You must subscribe to them by pasting the webcal: link into the calendar subscription screen. If you follow the instructions I posted from your phone you will subscribe to that calendar.
I can tell you don’t subscribe to common practices of people in the US or just have an overwhelming need to change things because YOU don’t like them. In that case I would advise you to maybe learn why people in a particular country do things and appreciate them before you judge them with your prejudices. I don’t think anyone here has anything against any of the out of norm holidays just that we would not like them cluttering up the calendar. I doubt the Chinese calendar or India calendar give two $&@“ @ about our thanksgiving or Christmas and yes Americans live or rather people from America who have probably learned to adapt and fit into their sur
It appears my last comments were cut off a little short. My final thoughts were that Americans or people from America live in these other countries yet they don’t seem to raise a big stink about those other countries not recognizing our holidays. Because like good sensible people we adapt and try to actually become a member of the host country instead of trying to change it to what we think it should be.
dalefromoverthere wrote:
Americans live or rather people from America who have probably learned to adapt and fit into their sur
"Americans" include people who celebrate Holi, Eid, Yom Kippur and other holidays you seem to be dismissing as somehow not American. They are not holidays belonging to any single country anymore than Christmas or Easter. They are religious holidays celebrated by people all over the world. Including the U.S.
Because like good sensible people we adapt and try to actually become a member of the host country instead of trying to change it to what we think it should be.
The people in this country who celebrate those holidays are not guests living in a "host" country. They are U.S. citizens living in their own country.
misspate wrote:
I don’t know why Apple can’t give us a way to delete these crazy holidays they have put on our calendar as US holidays.
The holiday are not "crazy" or certainly not any crazier than a holiday that celebrates someone rising out of their grave, scaring a bunch of people and then vanishing. And, as there is no such thing as an official United States holiday, any holiday celebrated in the U.S. by U.S. citizens would seem to qualify.
I just want a way to delete the holidays that I don’t recognize as a holiday. If you like them fine..... I don’t and would like a way to keep those I want and delete the ones that I see as useless and as clutter on my calendar......by having the functionality it should make you happy as well because then u can delete Christmas, Easter or all the Christian holiday you don’t like. God bless!
I’ve read the comments Kurt. I’m hoping a developer from Apple reads these comments as well since I’m suggesting a delete function capability at the holiday calendar entry. Do you think no one from Apple reads User comments in the community?
misspate wrote:
I just want a way to delete the holidays that I don’t recognize as a holiday. If you like them fine..... I don’t and would like a way to keep those I want and delete the ones that I see as useless and as clutter on my calendar......by having the functionality it should make you happy as well because then u can delete Christmas, Easter or all the Christian holiday you don’t like. God bless!
I don't believe I've ever expressed a desire to delete any holidays. If I wanted a different set of holidays, I know how to get them. I like seeing holidays other than the ones I celebrate. The addition of Holi to the calendar encouraged me do do some research on the holiday and on Hinduism. I like broadening my horizons and learning more about my fellow citizens. That's well worth the cost of a single line at the top of my calendar.
Great for you! That’s exactly the opposite of what I want ... which is less clutter and the flexibility to customize my calendar to my needs and interests in the most convenient and efficient way possible. So I want to be able to delete the holidays you want to research. Apple should accommodate both types of customer.
That’s hardly the most efficient or convenient is it? If Apple creates a product with the intention of accommodating a greater number of customers but doing so means they stop accommodating a whole bunch of others ... what sense does that make? None. Not to mention ... if you don’t allow customers to simply choose which holidays pertain to them ... who gets to draws the line at which holidays get to be included and therefore forced on everyone else? Are Wiccan holidays included? Native American holidays? (Is there such a thing?) I know this: There a thousands and thousands of religions worldwide ... who gets to decide which ones are on everyone else’s calendar? That’s potentially offensive simply by virtue of the fact that someone else is choosing what’s if value and what isn’t. But more importantly ... it’s just bad customer service.
They all have value to someone. Just not to me. And you just want to argue this point because you think it makes you look enlightened and tolerant and as if you are embracing diversity. (But this isn’t about diversity ... This is about a poorly designed specific featute of a widely used electronic application.) If you were truly inclusive you would advocate for the solution that accommodates the needs of the greatest number of people .... (in this case customization for EVERYONE) ... instead of just demonstrating to the world that you don’t understand that arguing for a ridiculous degree of political correctness is not the same thing as having a soul. Or a brain.
If a person thinks a Big Mac is a disgusting sandwich and hates thousand island dressing what is the most efficient use of their time?
Don’t buy a big mac and let your lack of sale speak to a lack of popularity
Endlessly campaign against McDonalds to try and force them to change the recipe of their product to suit you.
The former accepts that just because one person doesn’t like something doesn’t mean that something is empirically ‘bad’, it just means that someone doesn’t like it.
THe latter perpetrates the false presumption that one person’s preferences are more important than others and thus something must change to accommodate the preferences of that one person, seemingly with little care or regard to the fact that others may like the very thing that one person doesn’t like.
As Idris said, if a person finds the current Apple calendar offensive or not to their liking, stop using it thus creating a number so that in a meeting some executive can tell another ‘well the number of subscribers to our version of the US holiday numbers changed so we should respond this way.....’
If I want Muslim holidays listed why can’t i select it and not forced upon me by selecting US holidays. If your going to force Muslim holidays on me why don’t u include Buddhist, Hindu, Mormon, church of Scientology, and the whole lot.
I grow tired of your agenda. Im switching to another Calendar App.
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bru@norcal wrote:
If I want Muslim holidays listed why can’t i select it and not forced upon me by selecting US holidays. If your going to force Muslim holidays on me why don’t u include Buddhist, Hindu, Mormon, church of Scientology, and the whole lot.
Mormons are Christians.
The only problem that I have with this is that I can’t edt the calendar. Seeing these newly added holidays has now caused me to be more knowledgeable and aware of what others celebrate and why. The United States of America houses a vast amount of people from all different races, ethnicities, cultures and religions....the more educated we all become, the more accepting and tolerant we will be.....hopefully.
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
