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.
Drifter617 wrote:
I’m annoyed with all these ‘non holidays’ cluttering up the calendar as well. This year suddenily noticed Edi al-Fitr is coming up what ever the **** that is in June. Wish there was at least a filter so some of us can turn off or at least hide all these non holidays & international holidays we know nothing about & or don't care about. I don't mean to sound like an ugly American or anything but I would prefer to just have official federal holidays where people have both work & school off at the minimum. I’m really getting tired of the so called ‘PC police’ now.
You do sound like an ugly American as Edi al-Fitr is neither a "non-holiday" or an international holiday. It is a holiday celebrated by over three million U.S. Citizens. How is including a holiday celebrated by U.S. citizens in a U.S. Holiday calendar "p.c."?
Please unsubscribe to the Apple Holiday calendar and subscribe to one that better meets your needs. Instructions have been provided already in this thread.
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.
When Apple removed holidays so that the calendar was almost exclusively the list of holidays for Federal Employees, there was a big kerfuffle about the religious holidays being removed. So, Apple put religious holidays back.
There really is no such thing as national us holidays.
There are holidays that the federal government recognizes for some of their employees, which may also be holidays that other employers recognize, but there is not a single national US holiday where the government mandates that everyone must have the day off to celebrate.
Just uncheck the Apple calendar and use one that suits you, for example I use the one form work that doesn't have all the extra junk in it. I think that is an easy fix in response for the Apple policy that tries to insult its customers.
If you just have to deal with the Apple calendars I suggest looking elsewhere (there are plenty of third party webmails).
And no, Apple you are not providing a better service to any of your customers by spamming them like this. There are other calendars that can be subscribed to if someone wants to see other holidays that are relevant to them or if they just want to feel more culturally diverse.
Send them feedback and let them know
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
It's a simple fix. Simply open your calendar, go into preferences under General tab and uncheck "Show holidays calendar".
This is a user to user forum, so we’re just users like you so we have no idea why Apple does what Apple does.
As others have suggested a person could use the present US holidays calendar as a guide, then make their own holiday appointments that repeat each year. They will just need to research some of them each year, such as Easter, the date of which is based upon the date of the equinox full moon.
There are others such as MLK day, Labor Day, Memorial day which are the ____ day of the month....such as third monday on January or whatever it is. Tax day can move from year to year based upon the holiday that’s observed in Washington, D.C. where the city and federal offices are closed in observance of Emancipation day. As well as when Veteran’s day is observed vs the day itself (same with July 4th and the Christmas holidays which may be observed on a weekday when the real day falls on a weekend.)
It’d just take some online research to find out exactly how each holiday’s date is determined.
Or as has been suggested there are plenty of calendar apps out there that may better suit an individual’s need.
Maybe this is because religious holidays do not belong to any one country nor does the moon aka Lunar Calendar. There are over 1B Hindus in the world and 1.6B Muslims hence Holi day or Ramadan. I’m not religious but im not going to get upset if I see other religious holidays on my calendar. Any maybe because over 1B people in the world celebrate Chinese New Year. And yes some of all the aforementioned live right here in the USA. If you don’t want to see holidays then remove it from your calendar
I had time this am so spent some time googling. Out of the 41 holidays listed, 15 have direct origins in the US (and some of which are only celebrated in the US)
MLK
President’s
Tax Day
Mother’s Day
Memorial Day
Flag Day
Father’s Day
Juneteenth
Independance Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Election Day
Veteran’s Day (as Kurt stated, a rebranding of a holiday from another country)
Thanksgiving
Kwanzaa
The rest have origins in other parts of the world or were brought here by the untold millions of immigrants that made this country. It’s worth noting, to me anyway, that Kwanzaa is the only one that has originated in the US that is even vaguely religious.
As has been said countless times up thread, if a user does not find the calendar to their liking, don’t use it.
(Sorry guys, took me a bit longer to make a list and use google)
It was bugging me too, so I just manually created a Holidays calendar (all the major national, federal, Christian holidays). I only included Christian holidays because I'm a Christian. This is for 2018-2030 and I will update past 2030 sometime later. If people like it I can go back and add the Jewish holidays as well. Just let me know. I left out April Fools and Groundhog Day because I think those are pointless to have when trying to track a million other things every month.
Here's the public iCal address for what I created: webcal://p27-calendars.icloud.com/published/2/gnxNVOmYHx5j49Eusa_EIQw7HDv4IhLxn e3meM5YY-Xe-FNV_pH3CTP9wlV9mz-AYHVu5WqWUQRK2L3dEXcgwPNjYMA8QMbmqSSkERDdC3U
Good luck,
Liz
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.
Minok wrote:
Time to unsubscribe to the Apple US Holidays calendar, I think and just manage the official holidays by some other source -
Which is, of course, what people have been suggesting all throughout this thread. As there are thousands of other subscription calendars out there, which are compatible with Apple's calendar apps, it shouldn't be too hard to find one that meets your needs.
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.
We don't really care that you're only interested in Christian "holidays".
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.
Then this could be a learning opportunity for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Fitr
As Easter is the end of the Lenten fast for Christians, Eid al-Fitr is the end of the Ramadan fast for Muslims.
What’s up with the US holidays calendar
