How do I remove certain holidays from my calendar (but not all us holidays)?

melody145 wrote:

I have not seen any screenshots in these responses.

I never said they were. They are in one of the links:

How to Find and Subscribe to Calendars for Just About Anything with iCalShare

This link is also for a website that has many, many calendars. Did you check out any of the links that have been provided? Here are the other two I provided:

Use iCloud calendar subscriptions - Apple Support

Subscribe to calendars on Mac - Apple Support

Here are the instructions Barney-15E already typed out:

In macOS, right-click on the calendar and choose Unsubscribe.

Now, go find a shared calendar that has what you want--this may not be successful. Some of the sharing sites link to old Apple calendars that may not work anymore.

Step 1: Open the Google

Step 2: Search for "subscribed calendars" -- amazingly, this will also give you instructions on how to remove a subscribed calendar, too. You can also search for "ical calendars"

Step 3: Follow instruction on calendar sharing page to subscribe to the desired calendar. Usually, all you have to do is click the button.

If you want to have it on all your devices, see how to set up a subscribed calendar in iCloud: Use iCloud calendar subscriptions - Apple Support

To get the URL of the shared calendar from something like iCalShare, right-click on the button and choose Copy Link.

We have provided you with all the information you need to find a calendar file that better meets your needs and subscribe to it so that it will show up in the very calendar app you're using now. Please, please, look at the links, read the whole thread. It's all there.

You can not edit or modify subscribed calendars. If the calendar doesn't meet your needs, unsubscribe fro it and subscribe to one that does.

melody145 wrote:

So how do I get only the holidays I want on my named Calendar? It appears that I have to delete ALL the Holidays by deleting the “holiday” list, and then renter the ones I want? Is that my only option?

You unsubscribe from Apple's holiday calendar and you follow the instructions at the link I posted to find a holiday calendar that meets your needs. If you can't find one that meets your needs, manually add the desired holidays to any of your own calendars, or create a new calendar which you use to maintain the holidays you want to see.

melody145 wrote:

Perhaps screenshots would help us, because I understand none of that. I keep understanding that the responders want us to “subscribe” (which means what? But a new app in the App Store?) to a new calendar. Those of us asking for help don’t want a new calendar for reasons we have stated. We just want to personalize our holiday/event listing.

Apparently our only option is to eliminate the whole holiday list, or get a new calendar, neither of which is a desired solution apparently. But responders keep telling us to do something else—much of which is in technical terms that at least I don’t understand. I’m just s basic IPhone user....

Have you read the thread? Have you looked at any of the links we've provided? You don't need a new app. You need to subscribe to a different holiday calendar. It will be in the same app you know and love.At least one of the links provided has pictures. The others have written instructions that are written at a level that should be accessible to even fairly novice users.

I just need an answer to my question: can the Apple holiday calendar be changed? Yes or No? Anyone know why Apple would not allow that if No?

No, it cannot. This has also been explained already but, let me try again. All subscription calendar files conform to an international standard. They cannot be edited. Apple didn't invent this standard.

Again, you are not obligated to use Apple's holiday calendar file. You can use any other one you find that meets the same international standard. Links to sources have been provided. Links to instructions have been provided. Barney even typed out instructions.

You can not edit a subscribed calendar. There is no reason to use another App, simply subscribe to a calendar that meets your needs.

The holiday calendar is not "your" calendar. You can not alter the holiday calendar at all. The holiday calendar and your calendar are two completely different entities that you can see mixed together in one interface.

Right click on the calendar in the sidebar and select "unsubscribe".

How has Apple restricted your freedom? As above, subscribe to whichever calendar meets your needs ........... there are thousands available.

How do I “subscribe to one that does”. Are you suggesting we stop using our IPhone calendar and go to the App Store and get a different calendar app? That would require manually moving all my events to a new app...

How do we let Apple know that we don’t like being forced into “holiday” entries that we cannot change?

Thanks for your help!

How do I “subscribe to one that does”. Are you suggesting we stop using our IPhone calendar and go to the App Store and get a different calendar app?

Not a different app, just a different calendar. Search the web for calendars you can subscribe to.

Perhaps you can dumb it down a bit more for me? Let’s start with the fact that I’m using an iPhone X and I don’t have access to iTunes. So, what I’m understanding from your post is that, yes, I do in fact need to download a special app or calendar of my own and manually move all of my events onto that calendar rather than just have Apple do what many people are asking and give people the power to delete the holidays they don’t want by themselves? Did I understand that correctly? If not, would you mind going over it again for me? Thanks so much!

I don’t want to re-enter a year’s worth of events in a new Calendar app,

You Don't Have Too!

I don't know why this is confusing, but I'll give it another go.

The Calendar app displays calendar files. The calendar files contain events. Each individual calendar file is displayed in Calendar as long as you have it checked in the Calendar List. You can display as many calendars as you wish, all combined together and shown on the Calendar viewer, listed by color.

You can also subscribe to calendars you find online. They are created by others and you can see the events in those calendars, but you cannot edit them. They can be displayed along with your other calendars.

The Holidays calendar file is a Subscribed calendar. Like any subscribed calendar, the events in it are fixed and cannot be changed. Unsubscribing from that calendar will not affect any of your other calendars.

Subscribing to a different holiday calendar will not affect anything in your other calendars.

One App, Calendar, displays many calendars at the same time. The Calendar App is not a single monolithic entity where every event is kludged together in one file. Each calendar in the App is independent of the other calendars. Deleting one, hiding the events, or adding a new calendar does not affect the other calendars.

You have red cupcakes and green cupcakes and white cupcakes. Your cupcakes are in your glass display case, and there is a nice piece of plastic film on the front of the case that points to each flavor and color.

You decide you want a different design on the plastic film. You peel off the old one and apply the new one that has the design you like. The cupcakes have not moved...they are still in the base app - the Cupcake app. But the case looks different and has different words, because you subscribed to a different piece of film.

Many of the different films are free, and the may have cupcake descriptions that are different then the other films.

When you change the plastic film on the front of your calendar, none of your events - or cupcakes - move, but the new film has stuff you want to see, not offensive holidays.

Unfortunately these directions

Don’t work because there is no “subscribed calendars” under their new downloaded version which is why I’ll have to go in.

IOS

This is not the iOS forum.

However,

On my iPhone, I just clicked on Calendars (in the app),

clicked the Info button ℹ,

scrolled to the bottom and Delete Calendar.

In macOS, right-click on the calendar and choose Unsubscribe.

Now, go find a shared calendar that has what you want--this may not be successful. Some of the sharing sites link to old Apple calendars that may not work anymore.

Step 1: Open the Google

Step 2: Search for "subscribed calendars" -- amazingly, this will also give you instructions on how to remove a subscribed calendar, too. You can also search for "ical calendars"

Step 3: Follow instruction on calendar sharing page to subscribe to the desired calendar. Usually, all you have to do is click the button.

If you want to have it on all your devices, see how to set up a subscribed calendar in iCloud: Use iCloud calendar subscriptions - Apple Support

To get the URL of the shared calendar from something like iCalShare, right-click on the button and choose Copy Link.

If you don't find one of your liking, you will have to manually create a new calendar and enter the events manually. If you have multiple devices, set it up on iCloud.

Most holidays can be easily repeated (first monday in Sept). However, things like Easter which are based on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox will have to be manually updated every year.

Great... but I cannot find it to unsubscribe from it. Where is tthe subscription found??! I’ve looked under iTunes, iCal, Apple ID, etc.