What’s up with the US holidays calendar

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And if all you’re wanting to do is edit someone else’s version of holidays observed in the USA, why not just manually enter which ones you care about in your calendar. How hard is to enter yourself the 10 calendar entries needed to match the US Federal Employee holiday schedule? It takes at most all of <10 minutes to do that, once a year, yourself, if those are the only holidays you care about. Why bother with a subscription calendar at all?

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Did you just decide to totally ignore this entire thread just to complain?

Of course there's a way to change it. Turn it off. Download one that is to your liking. Move on.

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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.

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?

Ramadan and Holi are religious holidays, so they are celebrated in the US. And as far as I know, Mexicans don't really celebrate Cinco de Mayo. It's not a huge holiday like it is in the US. It's really a US creation to sell beer and tequila.

Cinco de Mayo is a holiday observed by Mexicans, Mexican-Americans and Americans celebrating the victory over the French who were trying to supply Confederate forces in the American civil war at the battle of Pueblo. In 2005 Congress enacted a concurent resolution calling on the US President to issue a proclamation for the United Stated to observe Cinco de Mayo with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

So there you go: Military victory over a confederacy who tried to break apart America so they could start their own country to keep slaves and the slave trade as viable commerce and the Mexican Army cut their supply lines off to hasten their defeat so I can think of no better way to celebrate that defeat than Tequila and beer.

They do allow that kind of flexibility. I have added an appointment to recure every month on the last thursday of the month.

Or as others have suggested subscribe to another calendar that better suits your needs.

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

Idontneedausername001 wrote:

I agree a lot of this holidays aren’t even traditional, how could they be U.S. holidays with no U.S. origin. I want to know why Apple forces such a thing to their customers with no warning, or any way to change it.

Let's see. New Years, origin is not U.S., Christmas, origin, not U.S.. Even Veteran's Day is a rebranding of Remembrance Day, which is not a U.S. holiday. So, even some of the Federal holidays don't have a U.S. origin. And, some that do, have been removed from their traditional days. When I was a kid, we celebrated Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's Birthday on the actual anniversary of their births. The holidays were about them and history, not about giving everyone a three day weekend. So, arguing tradition is a bit silly in this context.

Hessa333 wrote:

Now I have to remember to uncheck that calendar every time I go into the calendar and sort my appts

All you have to do is uncheck it and none of those holidays will show up on your calendar. You don't have to keep unchecking it. Once will do.

And yes, being upset by a handful of holidays appearing on your calendar is pretty ridiculous. On that, at least, we agree.

The point isn't the holidays, but the simple fact that the calendar cannot be deleted. I know I can uncheck it so I don't see it, but why should I have to do that every time I go through my calendars to view just one calendar? If we would all go to apple feedback and give them our opinions in a kind way, maybe they'll add it to their list of updates so we can delete that calendar.

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.

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