Possible fix for US holiday calendar?

Please read an entire post before commenting. I never said it was broken and you, technically, can edit a subscribed calendar in various ways. (e.g. You created/published the calendar; using other calendar apps; etc.)

Again, you can NOT subscribe from the Apple US Holiday calendar (to my knowledge) unless you want to share some screenshots/how-to. Please do if so and that would be very helpful.

First, there is no bias and if you read my post you might have seen that. As an attorney, with nationally recognized credentials, I am only looking at this from a very objective point of view. If you need clarification please see 5 U.S.C. 6103 and my whole post.

As for the term “fix” being a premise, I will apologize for the short-hand grammar since I am posting the entirety of my discussions from my iPhone without reviewing everything for easy reading. I will rephrase it this way: “Is there a possible fix/solution to my general problem?”

Again, I do not ‘believe’ it is possible to unsubscribe from Apple’s U.S. Calendar. If you know how, then by all means post screenshots if you know how, then by all means post a screenshot/how-to; at least, that would be very helpful and productive regarding my post.

Please read my post without a personal/semantic opinion. I just want an answer/solution to my question, not a legal and semantic discussion on how to phrase the question itself. I have contributed to many ‘tech’ discussion boards and always try to answer/solve the problem and not debate it. I find it funny that this is my first time with a problem I could not solve myself, yet your comment makes this more hilarious.

Thank you for the laugh.

Thank you for the help deggie.

I have not seen an option to unsubscribe from the specific U.S. calendar, other calendars I can, but please show me if you know how and I will be very grateful; I have tried to unsubscribe from my iPhone, MacBook, and iMac with no luck.

The problem with doing my own calendar is that I would have to manually update it every year, but that would fix my configuration problem. It is just something I would have to remind myself to do every year. The problem with doing my own calendar is that I would have to update it every year, but that would fix my configuration problem. It is just something I would have to remind myself to do every year. That’s a good suggestion because it may be more efficient for me.

Thank you very much and please reply back if you know how to unsubscribe. (i.e. Not being able to unsubscribe will cause additional issues I know I will encounter regularly)

I thought I tried that the other week and it just hid the calendar, but not unsubscribe it from calendar. I may have had a bad hotspot reception during that time I tried, so I will try again later today.

I am on my phone right now and it would take forever to describe, but essentially I am dealing with a custom client/file management system software and subscribing to a new calendar, especially without being able to unsubscribe from Apple’s, would do more than cause headaches... it would likely corrupt past files. (I had various methods tested on redundancy servers). :( How do you make a really sad and scared emoticon?

Haha. Yeh, I was just joking about the Tim Cook comment. I saw the Easter blow back while searching for a solution, but my motive is entirely unrelated. Thanks for that earlier discussion, ROCKMYPLIMSOUL.

I guess Apple could try multiple calendars, but that would lead to a gigantic blow back from various groups (e.g. Various sects from similar religious bodies).

An ideal solution would be the ability to remove individual events from a subscribed calendar, at least for a specified time such as a year, so that the listed event doesn’t auto-populate. What I mean is that a subscribe calendar is always ‘pushing’ the information to your calendar (e.g. updated meeting information), so if you could ‘delete’ the event in a way that the calendar ‘flags’ the same titled event for that day, then that would be nice.

I apologize if you thought I meant “fix”as in relation to: broken, not functioning, etc. I mean “fix”as in to: resolve, correct, etc. Please see my entire post for the description of my problem. Thanks!

No, let me go to my Mac later and double check , but I vaguely recall that the calenda, after ‘unchecking’ it, was still visible in the side bar (i.e. Possible to select/unselect the option at will; it appeared as the same for hiding/unhiding calendars on an iPhone). I could very well be wrong and will double check later.

I understand it would change the standard for subscription calendars, but it was just a wishful thought and I understand there is likely no great demand/need for that.

It is definitely not a local issue that is particular to me, if that will unsubscribe me from the calendar then that should definitely resolve my issues.

Sure thing Pvt. Schmuckatelli. Not answered actually, it may help you to read my original post as I recommended. BTW, this problem occured by an error made by Apple and a bad oversight by a few smaller companies. I am only trying to fix the problem because less fortunate people will be hurt by this problem and lose a lot. I just happen to be on this legacy system and, after having many discussions with a couple of CIOs, I am in a good test position to try and find a solution (There are a handful of others, but I am much more free to ‘fix’ the problem in different ways). That is why I wanted to reach out to this community to see if anyone had any interesting ideas.

Regarding feedback to Apple, as of Monday morning there is no progress (~70 person e-mail string) after contact with the Apple project manager; the scenario he is leaning towards is rolling back all of the operating systems on EVERYTHING. I am a nice guy just trying to fix a major problem for others.

Actually, I may try rolling back everything on Friday to see if that would even function properly. At least I can give them some good information that way. I dread what that would be like for others though, really stinks.

Deggie, please bare with me a second. I am not getting feedback from the Apple app. I am getting feedback on a string with several IT reps from various companies including an Apple Business Project Manager. I can not disclose our third party software, NDAs all over, but we got on it in a trial program for small firms (~20 people), then that company decided to just stay with mid-cap companies (accounting) and large firms. It is not easy to test on their systems, but we are very small compared to them. PROBLEM: as a law firm we cannot allow other companies to have access to client files (Many client’s are elderly and that complicated it more).

The rollback... not my suggestion, it is just one thing that is being discussed, he was not sure himself, but it was just an initial idea that might work. I am not sure how that actually would fix the problem myself, but I know it would fix part of it with retaining past events in our third party legacy software. I think from there we would just need to buy a new system (think old files on legacy and new files on New Company’s software). Doable for us, but for the big boys... well I count myself lucky.

Please do not take my other comments to heart, but I feel that I explained my problem and framed it in a way to avoid bringing in the various ‘personal’ views of others. Some commenters only offered negative or attacking feedback and I should have just ignored them; that was unproductive to the forum and I am sorry. I am just reaching out to this forum because good ideas can come from the fresh perspective of others.

I was sort of hoping for a random idea, or trick, someone has used that might apply. For example: Using Terminal to direct DNS to your own server to avoid Ads, etc., through your browser. Just a shot in the dark to fix a really weird problem. Right now, the plan is to work with us smaller firms (i.e. We’re the guinea pigs) and find a solution that can be implemented for the larger company systems.

100% agree about that software. It functioned fairly well, but someone messed up on this part big time. We are trying, but when the email string is asking for ideas and only 1-2 show up, and not good ones, everyone is just trying to spitball a solution. It was a shot in the dark, but I appreciate your time and feedback.