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

Stokestack wrote:

Or, put LEGAL holidays on the calendar and leave all others off.

That's exactly what Apple did. And there was an outpouring of complaints that Easter (which is not a LEGAL holiday) was left off. So Apple put Easter (and equivalent holidays in importance from several other religions) on the US holidays calendar.

Looks like a bug in their published calendar. I see it too - and came here with the same question. In this case, outside of reporting it to Apple via bugreporter.apple.com there's nothing that can be done - just ignore it.

Paramedicop wrote:

Looks like a bug in their published calendar. I see it too - and came here with the same question. In this case, outside of reporting it to Apple via bugreporter.apple.com there's nothing that can be done - just ignore it.

No, it's not a bug. It's a Hindu holiday, as as already been pointed out in this thread.

There are no legal national holidays in the USA. Congress can only make holidays for federal institutions, not national holidays across all states. The US Federal government has a holiday schedule for their employees - the civil service, but not a single one of those is a national holiday in any formal nor legal sense.

Most subscriptions to “US Holidays” will include the Federal Government employee holiday schedule, as well as all commonly recognized state holidays, days of remembrance or recognition, common religious holidays across all religions, etc.

Subscribd calendars have whatever the person, group or company who created the calendar chooses to include. You don’t have to subscribe however.

Hello Wendymoira, Holi is a Indian Festival for celebrating colors. It is a very huge festival in their country. The reason why it is reflecting in your calendar is because may be your calendar synced with Google Calendar. Looking at the Google's influence in India they must have added it in their calendar.

Holi is the Hindu festival of colors. So if the Unitarian Universalists are still interested in the search for spiritual truth through all beliefs then you now know what it is and you've now heard of it. If you still want it removed contact Apple and let them know it conflicts with your interests.

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First time I had ever heard of Holi (I had to look it up). Definitely not a US holiday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi

Or, put LEGAL holidays on the calendar and leave all others off.

wendymoira wrote:

It's not a national holiday. Maybe a religious one? I want it off my calendar.

So is Easter and Good Friday.

wendymoira wrote:

I'd like to stick to actual US Holidays.

Apparently, so did Apple, but that didn't work out to well for them. The Christian Soldiers went on a crusade, and they capitulated. But, in doing so, they also decided to add other major Religious Holy Days for other major religions.

If you want a secular calendar, then you can subscribe to a secular calendar.

GB

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."

Okay all you (think) brilliant people out there telling us what is a religious or US Holiday, the total point (that you are all missing, except a few) is that we ought to have the choice to delete any holiday if we want. Apple needs to make the calendar so we can delete what we don't want on it. Better yet, just put out a generic calendar and then we can add what we want (like a "New Event") and choose to repeat it every year. Every one is happy. Please do that Apple and lets stop all this ridiculous PC crap!

Why does anyone who offers an optional subscription calendar have to make it editable? If you don’t like it, don’t use it and make your own. Why is your choice of holidays Apple’s (or Google’s , timeandate.com’s, Microsoft’s, etc) or any subscriber content provider’s problem? Don’t subscribe if you don’t like it.

Apple and nobody else is forcing their list of holidays on anyone.

Of course there is no such thing as any “US religious holiday”. The first amendment to the constitution forbids Congress from ever creating any such thing for any denomination. There is also not one single act of Congress that establishes any National Holiday of any kind, since Congress does not have the power to make such a thing.

Caswartz wrote:

Then you need to tell me how to find the Christian Calendar because I can’t

If you’re a Christian, surely you already know your own religions holidays and can just enter then into your calendar yourself?

Same thing goes for any religion or religious denomination. If somebody else’s subscription calendar is not to your liking, don’t use it. Just make your own calendar entries - it’s not exactly difficult or challenging to make a recurring entry in an electronic calendar. Instead of spending time complaining, arguing, and searching for alternative pre-made subscription content, you could just set have set up your own calendar as you wish by now and been done with it.

Besides the oft repeated steps given by Lawrence and others to either create your own calendar with your own entries, or to use other available calendars that suit your bias, here's another one that doesn't require any extra work on your part. When you see a holiday that isn't part of your bias…

IGNORE IT!!!

Is that really so hard for you to do?