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.
Anyone and everyone who creates an *.ics format subscription calendar can put whatever content they want in it. Subscribers in turn are free to choose which subscription calendar(s) they wish to use, or not use.
That very level can of choice by both content creators and content users seems like a good thing to me. Especially when you keep in mind that these multitudes of subscription calendars are offered up free to use (or not). If someone’s freely offered content doesn’t suit you, don’t use it and find an alternative, or simply create your own annually recurring events. Simple.
Only the creator of a subscribed calendar has the ability to edit it. As a subscriber, you cannot edit the calendar. You would need to turn that calendar off and subscribe to one that better meets your needs, or create one on your own. See this for additional calendar subscription options. http://icalshare.com/
southview Baptist church wrote:
It's a simple fix. Simply open your calendar, go into preferences under General tab and uncheck "Show holidays calendar".
Yes, that is an easy fix, that's been posted in these 25 pages many times. Thank you for supporting this simple solution.
It can be followed up with a visit to http://icalshare.com, when the user can pick any combination of several thousand holiday and other calendars to replace it.
doefromnewark wrote:
... 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?
...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.
Apple gets to choose, that's who. It's their calendar. And you are allowed to choose which holidays pertain to you. Uncheck the Apple US Holidays calendar subscription and subscribe to one that you like. If Apple only gave you the option to use their calendar, then you wouldn't have a choice. But Apple allows you to subscribe to any subscription calendar and it automatically syncs to your Calendar app. The choice is yours.
GB
MissyN wrote:
Again...there are 31 pages to this thread so no, I did NOT read all 31 pages and the ones I did read had the same message as mine. These extra holidays were not on our calendar in the past so it would be nice if we had the ability to delete the entries we don't want to see.
Apple removed the religious holidays from the calendar. Then some so-called Christians (as opposed to the Christians who believe in loving their neighbors) pitched a fit. So, Apple added religious holidays back but included not only the Christian holidays but the holidays of all five major religious groups in the U.S.
You can desire to delete them all you want but that's not the way subscription calendars work. Turn off that calendar and use one that you prefer. I took the trouble to provide you with a link to one that some people have been satisfied with. Did you try that one?
jrdaskibumm wrote:
Because the US government only has 11 federal holidays. The rest are holidays person may celebrate but are not the 11 officially recognized federal holidays
Those are nothing more than the US Federal Employee Holiday Schedule. They are NOT National Holidays. Congress cannot enact a National Holiday - it’s outside of their purview. Nobody other than Federal Government Institutions - not one other single person, company, group, organization, or State - is required or mandated to observe or even recognize any of the US Federal Employee Holidays.
They may be commonly recognized as holidays, but thay are not universally observed within the USA and never have been. The USA, in a legal and literal sense, has no National Holidays. Not even Inauguration Day.
Those 11 days are no more or less a ”US Holiday” than Chinese New Year (celebrated by US Chinese residents and citizens for over 200 years), St. Patrick’s Day, Cinco de Mayo, or any other commonly recognized holiday.
I’m suggesting a delete function capability at the holiday calendar entry.
Unnecessary. There is already a fully working system for calendars that will allow you and anyone else to do what they want. Turn the default calendar off and subscribe to any of the hundreds available that will show your preferred events, or create your own.
Do you think no one from Apple reads User comments in the community?
As someone whose been a member for quite a long time, I'm fully aware of what the hosts can do. As Idris mentioned, their daily time is taken up keeping the servers running, updating software on them as necessary, and in between that spend the rest of their time moderating these forums.
If we users with Lounge access see an issue with Apple's products that is a true concern (example, a particular model iPhone is turning up here unusually often with the same complaint), we'll bring it to the hosts concern. Not that they can do anything about it, but we ask them to bump it up the chain to let engineering know.
You could always make your own calendar. Use the Apple one as a template, set up annual repeats for the holidays you wish to have on there then unsubscribe from Apple’s, giving yourself a 100% only what you want totally customized to you experience.
Minok wrote:
Indeed, we need a calendar that ONLY has all of the official Federal and State holidays in the US (those days when people have days off or businesses are closed/restricted hours).
There are no OFFICIAL Federal holidays in the US. Many states have State holidays. Massachusetts, for example, has Patriots Day. But Federal, NONE. What we call "federal" holidays are days that US Government Employees get off. There is no requirement that any business, city or state observe them (and many don't). And in the past few years there are fewer and fewer businesses that are closed or have restricted hours on any holidays, and many large companies don't give what you may think are holidays as time off. Christmas seems to be the only one left, and not all retail businesses close for even Christmas. Most retail businesses are open on Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, etc. So they shouldn't be on the US Holidays calendar either?
When you say you want State holidays, if all of them were on the calendar there would be many more holidays on it than there are now. Be careful what you wish for.
If people help by marking the actual answers as helpful, the answers will be presented on the main page before the personal snipes.
Indeed it would. But only the person who started the topic can mark a post Solved. Of which the best choice would be one of the posts that describes what to do, and includes a link to one of the various sites you can get other subscription calendars from.
More unfortunately, only the people finding this topic and agreeing with the nonsense mark the nonsense as Helpful, as seen by the two with gold stars on the first page.
But if at least 5 people mark an actually helpful post, it will also be seen on the first page.
Some updates ago, that term and calendar was changed to "Show Holidays", apparently more aptly titled "US and Religious Major holidays". Without any warning to subscribers, the number of marked days tripled and filled up our calendars creating false positives.
That's what started this whole topic. Apple was trying to be non-denominational and removed some religious dates from their calendar. People (Catholics) got ridiculously bent out of shape about it and demanded Easter and some other dates be put back in. Apple responded by doing the right thing - adding all religious dates they could find so their calendar didn't come across as leaning towards one particular religion.
Did that help? No, of course not. Then the bent out of shape Catholics got even more bent that these awful Muslim, Hindu and other religious dates were there, and by golly, they didn't want to see them! And here we are.
trip1ex wrote:
US public schools, and the government and US retailers don't close shop for all the holidays they added.
Actually, many, in various states, counties and towns across the country do close for many of them. And no State, county, town or school district observes only or all of the Federal Government Employee holidays. Here in North Carolina, the State does not observe President’s Day. Neither does my own counties‘ school district, who also publishes their student calendars online in several Spanish as well as several Asian and middle eastern languages.
There is no uniform school calendar anywhere in the USA. Every district sets their own calendar. Every State sets its own State Employee Holiday schedule. Many achool districts have multiple observance calendars depending on year round, traditional or other modified school schedules.
Your idea that there is or ever has been some rigid calendar of observed holidays held by everyone and every organization or political entity across the USA is pure fiction.
Kathy92881 wrote:
I just unsubscibed to the U.S. holidays and picked Yahoo U.S. holidays. That got rid of "holidays" like Eid al-Fitr which I have no idea what it even is.
Yes - all 20 pages of this thread have that recommendation. Freedom of choice is a beautiful thing that should be exercised regularly.
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
k0 wrote:
IdrisSeabright wrote:
The U.S. was explicitly not established as a Christian country, either.
Agree. I intentionally did not say otherwise. However, the heritage and traditions of the United States arguably have been heavily influenced by Christianity.
And it's all really irrelevant. As there is no such thing as an official "U.S. Holiday" calendar, Apple is free to chose what to put on their holiday calendar. You are free to use or not use that calendar. You're free to use no calendar or to chose another one that better meets your needs.
ArtfromArk wrote:
It seems that with every iOS update, there are more holidays added to the U.S. Holidays calendar. Funny, but I don’t know what most of them are because they aren’t Federally recognized holidays. For now, I have unsubscribed from the U.S. Holidays calendar.
You haven't been paying any attention at all. Apple published a calendar at the beginning of the year that had only US government holidays and a few fun holidays like April Fools Day and Groundhog Day. There was a furor because Easter was not on the calendar. So Apple updated the calendar on February 22 to include significant holidays for the 5 most widely practiced religions in the US, all practiced by US Citizens and all being represented by members of congress. It had nothing to do with "every update", and the updated calendar did not coincide with any iOS version update.
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
