Holi is showing up in the "US Holidays" on my calendar. I know Apple wants to be accurate so please remove this or advise how I can remove this. I don't need Non-American holidays filling my calendar.
MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)
canine2 wrote:
Maybe but it's not a US holiday. US holidays are not determined by population. Respectfully, Hindu or any holiday other than a US holiday have no importance to me. I would say Most Americans don't want to have them cluttering our calendars.
So what happened was slightly over a week ago Apple changed the calendar so it was strictly secular. Then this web site was full of Christians complaining about the removal of the "American holiday" Easter from their calendar. Go figure, Easter isn't any kind of official holiday. Anyway, a week later Easter reappeared but so did a bunch of other days, this time representing the entire diversity of the USA instead of the traditional mention of only Christian events. It isn't that Apple's calendar is changing to to be a "global calendar" as davidfrommobile writes, it's the US that is changing to be more diverse and has been ever since its inception.
Your real solution:
About holiday calendars on iOS and macOS - https://support.apple.com/HT208541 - "Learn how to display holiday calendars in the Calendar app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac."
Use iCloud calendar subscriptions - Apple Support - https://support.apple.com/HT202361
iCloud: Delete or hide an event in iCloud Calendar - https://support.apple.com/kb/PH2684?locale=en_US
How to add calendar events to your Calendar application for OS X/Mac OS and iOS - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-12741
https://www.apple.com/feedback/calendar.html
I think this series of discussions provides a different perspective on federal holidays: Feb 2018 post by Michael Black - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8293223?answerId=33068171022#33068171022 - "technically the US Federal Government Holidays are not national holidays since Congress only has powers to create holidays for federal institutions. So strictly speaking, the USA has no legally recognized national holidays." If you're interested in more along those lines https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8293916?start=90&tstart=0 and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8296222?answerId=33080568022#33080568022 and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8296222?answerId=33081933022#33081933022
I'll add a note that although Washington's birthday federal holiday was last week, this is not widely observed and in my city services such as garbage pickup continued on a normal schedule.
Thanks but It really has nothing at all to do with my opinion. I simply want an accurate calendar
Csound1, you need to read more carefully, I said "it really has NOTHING to do with my opinion". Sorry you're taking this personally and using the prejudice card but it's a simple request to correct the calendar so it reflects the actual US holidays. Nothing to do with denying someone their beliefs. Facts are facts and this isn't a US holiday no matter how much you may or may not believe in offending or appeasing people.
You are giving your opinion of what constitutes an official US holiday, which if you had read this thread you will see that there are no official US holidays at all. Yet you insist on having the ones you want, and only the ones you want on my calendar. That like it or not is correctly called prejudice.
I came on here to simply fix my calendar, not get into a back and forth about Easter or Holi. I simply want the old format back and if that's too much to ask, maybe provide a US Federal Government Holiday calendar. Obviously Apple is censoring my replies and any rational thoughts about it. talk about 1st amendment infringement
Hi Brad, as you can see in the post looks like these non US holidays will remain. Interestingly enough, the default setting on iOS devices is for U.S. holidays, which shows holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas and Independence Day. However, there is an option to add Alternate Calendars, including Chinese, Hebrew and Islamic. But Christian is absent from this list. On one of the last iPhone updates, Good Friday and Easter Sunday were deliberately removed from the calendars. People complained and they were since added back. I think we both know that the common sense solution would be to leave the calendar in its original form and persons of faith could create their own calendars accordingly, but that makes too much sense.
Hi canine2,
Yes, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for pushing for answers on this topic! It would be ideal if as you mentioned the US Holiday calendar could include only the federal holidays and then folks could either add separate/alternative calendars for religious holidays or simply add their own. If Apple doesn't support this approach, I would prefer to be able to delete the US Holiday calendar (appears to me I currently can't do this; I can only hide it) and manage my own US Holidays.
Thanks again,
Brad
Unsubscribing causes the calendar events to be hidden but unfortunately it doesn't actually remove the calendar from the device. If I unsubscribe from a shared calendar, I'd like the calendar to be completely removed from the device altogether. If I then decide I'd like to subscribe to it again (or any other shared calendar), I'd need to be able to search from a list of available shared calendars and select the calendar/s I'd like to subscribe to which would then add them to the device.
Hope this helps.
Thanks!
Brad
Sorry, but I'm not going to argue with you because I know that it is on my device. You've already proven in this thread you like to stir up trouble. I was just trying to be nice. Have a good rest of your day. Don't expect a reply to whatever reply you have in store next.
Thanks,
Brad
Come on Apple!?!?! Can't you give us, your customers, better service than this disservice.
1. Official U.S. Holidays should be on the U.S. Holiday Calendar. i.e. those holidays recognized by the U.S. Federal Government, the NYSE, States, etc...
2. If you want to celebrate International holidays or religious holidays why not create holiday calendars for such so individuals can tailor their calendar to their personal needs.
3. At the very least give us the option to Edit the holidays you push on to our calendars.
Apple products should seamlessly integrate into my life and seek do so without disruption of it.
You are proving my point as I think Eastershould notbe on the US Holidays calendar. I am Christian too. I only want the holidays on this list on that calendarWhat are Federal holidays? - OPM.gov. Know why Easter isn't a federal holiday? Because it is on Sunday and doesn't need to be since government agencies are closed that day anyway.
By the way, you didn't cite your source about why Holi is a US holiday? You merely countered my post by stating a Christian holiday wasn't official. I still need you to cite where Holi is listed as a US holiday. You stated that Easter is not a US holidayeither, so you have just admitted that Holi is not a US holiday... confused here.
I have edited this post to be more construtive per Apple's rules.
I think that a Holiday celebrated by 3 million or more Americans has a much right to be recognized as any other mythical beings does. If you have a good reason why their celebrations should not be recognized .....
canine2 wrote:
talk about 1st amendment infringement
Apparently you haven't read the 1st amendment recently (or if ever). For you edification this is the totality of the 1st amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The first keyword is "Congress" - So Congress "shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech". The first Amendment does not say "Apple shall make no rule abridging the freedom of speech", does it? So it is perfectly clear, I hope, that your 1st amendment rights have not been infringed.
Regarding this thread, "...shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
Apple has chosen to help support the "free exercise thereof" by including holidays of the 4 largest religious groups in the US. How is that wrong?
I'm sure it isn't just his, and if you read this thread before post to it you would know that it isn't just his. But, so what? It is NOT my opinion. Are you saying that your opinion takes precedence over mine?
You’re showing just as much prejudice...
I think it wouldn’t be such a stretch for Apple to provide several calendars as Apple does a great job with supporting languages, which I find very useful. Different calendars would be useful as well. I suspect this was an oversight on Apple’s part just like they missed the Easter holiday, Apple has a lot going on and I suppose like any company, things get by the QC...
Now for my prejudice,
Thx, but I’m sure they’ve got PLENTY of complaints to weed through. I find over all Apple gets to all this stuff eventually. I’m only here ‘cuz I noticed the event on my Cal and didn’t know what it was, then I began the old rabbit trail thing😂. It’s not really that hard to set up my own cal if that’s so important.
Thx for the link👍-1F3FC;
Holi is showing up in the "US Holidays"
