How do I remove "Holi" (March 2) from my iphone calendar?

wendymoira wrote:

On my chosen US Holiday calendar I expect to see the following according to the Federal holidays established by law (5 U.S.C. 6103):

• New Year's Day (January 1).
• Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Third Monday in January).
• Washington's Birthday (Third Monday in February).
• Memorial Day (Last Monday in May).
• Independence Day (July 4).
• Labor Day (First Monday in September).
• Columbus Day (Second Monday in October).
• Veterans Day (November 11).
• Thanksgiving Day (Fourth Thursday in November).
• Christmas Day (December 25).

For information on the observation of these holidays within Federal employee work schedules, please see the Federal holidays fact sheet at http://www.opm.gov/oca/WORKSCH/HTML/HOLIDAY.asp.

I subscribe to my chosen religious (Christian) holidays and I appreciate that this is an option; it is here I expect to see holidays associated with my Christianity. "Holi" is not a part of my chosen religion and according to law (per above) it is not a US Holiday, it is a Hindu festival. It needs to be removed. Thanks Apple, we'd like this corrected.

Apparently you have not been following the long, drawn out, painful saga here. What you have listed above is exactly what Apple tried to do - put out an actual US Holidays calendar. And what happened? Thousands of Christians accused Apple of all sorts of things because Easter was no longer showing. Did it matter that they could download a Christian calendar with all important Christian holidays to augment the US Holidays one? Not one whit. Threats of lawsuits followed by promises to abandon all Apple products ensued and went on for days. Then, Apple re-issued the Calendar with Easter put back on it. In addition, they added important religious holidays for all of the other Major religions in the world. Since all of those religions are practiced by Americans all over the country.

But, NO, that WASN'T OK either. The Christians came back accusing Apple of trying to be "PC", or of acting like a bratty kid who decided that if you didn't it one way, then they would give it to you all ways.

It's a no-win situation. If you don't like the new US Holiday Calendar, unsubscribe from it, subscribe to a normal, secular, US Calendar, and, and you have already done, keep your subscription to the Religious calendar of your choice.

The amazing thing is that all of these things meld together so nicely, that one can truly customize their calendar to be exactly like they would like it to be. Unfortunately for the rest of us, a gang of entitled, overreacting, infantile people wanted it their way, and felt that they should not have to make even the tiniest effort to take advantage of the ability to customize. They wanted it their way and they wanted it that way NOW!!! 🙄

So, thank you for being a reasonable person. It is quite refreshing to find a person who understands the beauty of calendar subscriptions and how to use them. I find it amazing how people can make such a huge deal out of something so trivial that is so easily rectified. If only they could spend even a tiny bit of that energy toward trying to find solutions to real problems, like hunger, thirst, illness, hatred, you get it....

Cheers,

GB

JNK50 wrote:

It would be good to have an option to remove holidays (such as Holi) that do not apply to you. Good suggestion for Apple.

You have that option... just unsubscribe from that calendar and subscribe to one that contains only what you want to see.

phjohnson9 wrote:

Disregard my reply above. As I have read thru this feed... I suggest remove ALL celebratory dates from our calendar! National. Religious. Even the "cats half birthday." Be responsible people and add to your own calendars your special dates. It is not that tough!!!! Then no complaints. You only have yourselves to blame if you miss that "cats half-birthday."

That's really easy to do. Un-check the U.S. Holidays calendar.

dacia187 wrote:

How?

On an iOS device open the Calendar app, tap on Calendars at the bottom, and uncheck US Holidays.

People complained because Certain Christian religious holidays (that are NOT US holidays) were not on the calendar. Now people are complaining about seeing holidays for religions other than the one they subscribe to.

If you aren't satisfied with the holiday calendar provided by Apple, then remove it and subscribe to a calendar that shows the holidays you want to see instead.

As has been explained several times in this thread, you already have that capability. Simply go to the Calendar app, tap Calendars at the bottom, and uncheck the Holidays calendar. Then you can put any event you want into the calendar.

I was with you until you threw in "PC crap." Having respect for ALL people, and especially all Americans, is NOT PC. It is being an American.

I was bothered by the same thing. I don’t want extra things on my calendar. At the bottom of the calendar screen you can click on “calendars”. There are 2 for US holidays. I unchecked the one in the second section and iit took off the Hindu holidays. It left the other holidays, but took off the more religious ones like Good Friday. The major holidays are still there along with Mother’s Day, Presidents’ Day, etc.

br2olson wrote:

I want the calendar to reflect official US holidays. I am not fussed about it being a religious holiday.

I would like to know Apple's position on this.

There are no official U.S. holidays (that's been explained repeatedly in this thread alone) so, if you just turn off the U.S. Holiday calendar, you'll be fine.

This is a user-to-user technical support forum. Apple is not going to respond here. But, one can infer their position from the what holidays they put on their calendar.

br2olson wrote:

I thought this was intended as a technical support group. I am disappointed that so many users are turning it into a cultural / religious forum. I have never heard of Holi so I wanted it removed.

That question has been answered repeatedly: uncheck the U.S holidays calendar. Poof! It will be gone.

Your religions beliefs are of no interest to me. People being concerned about religious beliefs is how this thread got to be such a mess in the first place.

Caswartz wrote:

All you can do is check US calendar. Holi shows up. We don’t want Holi. There is no way to get rid of it

You could UNCHECK US Calendar. That is how you get rid of it.

If you want a US Calendar that ONLY supports your prejudices there are thousands of them that are free on the Internet. As I don't know what your prejudices are, I can guess that this one will satisfy your biases: http://icalshare.com/calendars/2. Just open the link on your iPhone and click the Subscribe button. It will add the calendar to your Calendar app.

That's really easy to do. Un-check the U.S. Holidays calendar.

It is in the Google subscription ”US Holidays” calendar, and in the Apple “US Holidays” calendar (and Microsoft’s, Week Cal’s, etc). Most of these subscription calendars simply include any and all “commonly” celebrated holidays in the US - that is all the major holidays recognized by some substantial proportion of Americans. Thus they include the Federal Government’s Employee Holiday Scedule, most or all various specific State Holidays, widely observed days of remembrance, holidays for numerous major Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and other religions practiced in the USA, African heritage days, and so on. Almost none of which are observed by all Americans.

There is no such thing as a National Holiday in the USA - we have not a single such designated day. “US Holidays” are nothing more than anyone’s choice of days commonly observed around the nation as a holiday. Those getting bent out of shape over holidays other than just the few they think appropriate need to either ignore the others, stop using someone else’s subscriber content, or simply make their own holiday calendar.

But nobody gets to dictate what is or is not a “US holiday”. Not even Congress has the power to do that for the Nation as a whole.

So in order to get rid of Holi, I have to uncheck US HOLIDAYS and then it’s gone ALONG WITH MY US HOLIDAYS. Holi is not a US HOLIDAY

wendymoira wrote:

On my chosen US Holiday calendar I expect to see the following according to the Federal holidays established by law (5 U.S.C. 6103):

• New Year's Day (January 1).
• Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Third Monday in January).
• Washington's Birthday (Third Monday in February).
• Memorial Day (Last Monday in May).
• Independence Day (July 4).
• Labor Day (First Monday in September).
• Columbus Day (Second Monday in October).
• Veterans Day (November 11).
• Thanksgiving Day (Fourth Thursday in November).
• Christmas Day (December 25).

For information on the observation of these holidays within Federal employee work schedules, please see the Federal holidays fact sheet at http://www.opm.gov/oca/WORKSCH/HTML/HOLIDAY.asp.

I subscribe to my chosen religious (Christian) holidays and I appreciate that this is an option; it is here I expect to see holidays associated with my Christianity. "Holi" is not a part of my chosen religion and according to law (per above) it is not a US Holiday, it is a Hindu festival. It needs to be removed. Thanks Apple, we'd like this corrected.

And, sensibly, that's what Apple did. However. apparently a lot of Christians had hurt feelings because Easter was removed. So, Apple put major holidays from major relgions on the calendar.

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