What’s up with the US holidays calendar

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.

I looked on my ipad and I don’t have any of those and I am subscribed to us holidays. Perhaps you want to look for US Federal holidays. As in ‘days the banks and post office are closed’

You just start without the US holiday calendar and enter the particular days you want to see on your calendar, no tricks, its easy to do.

Try subscribing to this calendar. It works well for me. 😊

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

Open your calendar

Tap on the calendars on the bottom middle

that should bring up the list of calendars you subscribe to. Tap on the blue circle beside the US holidays and that should unsubscribe you

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.

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

See my hotly-contested post with a link to a calendar that you can subscribe to which has all of the "normal" US holidays. I know, I'm going to offend some people's delicate sensibilities by using that word, but hopefully the quotations around it will protect them from harm. 😉

Valerie571 wrote:

The US government does not celebrate it recognizes holidays. On the days that it recognizes a holiday certain offices, industries, and services are closed. I would like to see the US Holiday calendar in Apples Calendar app to just show US government recognized holidays. If not include all holidays. Add Seikh, Hindu, Buddhist, and even Stonewall riots (June 28th).

I suggest reading the thread you posted to, where everything you suggest has already been discussed, more than once. For example, it does include Hindu.

As its Apple’s subscription calendar they can include or exclude anything they want. If it doesn’t meet your needs then just unchecked it and subscribe to one or more of the hundreds of free and paid calendars available on the web. Instructions for doing so are also in the thread. Or suggest changes to Apple: https://Apple.com/feedback.

You have the option to customize your calendar. You can unsubscribe from Apple's US Holdiays calendar by unchecking it, and then subscribe to a Holiday calendar that meets your needs. It's quite simple and most, if not all of them are free.

GB

Answered and noted at least a dozen times already. You did read this entire topic, didn’t you?

You CANNOT change anyone else’s subscription calendar. That includes the default calendar created by Apple. If you don’t want to use that one, TURN IT OFF.

Then, either create your own calendar of events, or subscribe to any one of hundreds created by other users. And no, you can’t edit those, either. They don’t belong to you. If you can’t find one that exactly fits your needs, then you’ll have to create your own.

And another new user who apparently didn't read any of this topic.

Answered at least a dozen times. Turn the default calendar off. Choose any of hundreds of other subscription calendars that does suit your needs. Or, create your own. Google is hardly the only place to get other calendars.

Hmmmwhat wrote:

They missed Good Friday. Not only a catholic holiday but also a fed holiday. The other? Well they appear to be other religions? Why?

Why? Because there are Americans (US Citizens) who practice other religions and celebrate their own holidays. All of the religions whose holidays are represented in the US Holiday calendar by members of Congress, BTW.

However, it's very strange. Good Friday appears in the US Holidays calendar on my phone. The date is March 30. And it is certainly NOT a Federal holiday. Here is a list of Federal holidays: 2018 Federal Holiday Calendar | National Holidays | 2019 Federal Holidays. Do you see Good Friday on it?

Note also that there is no such thing as a "national holiday" as Congress does not have the authority to designate holidays except for government employees. States and businesses are not required to observe holidays that apply to Federal employees, and many don't. When was the last time stores were closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day? George Washington's Birthday? Memorial Day? Labor Day? Columbus Day? Veteran's Day? Even Thanksgiving day in recent years?

This is also stated at the top of the page in the link, quoted here:

There are ten annual U.S. federal holidays on the calendar designated by the United States Congress1 Unlike many other countries, there are no ‘national holidays’ in the United States because Congress only has constitutional authority to create holidays for federal institutions. Most federal holidays are also observered as state holidays.

I think we pay enough for these phones and should be able to only have the holidays we want without a hassle.

You can. It's been explained over and over in this thread how to do it. You might want to read the thread. It can be quite enlightening.