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2022 Holidays Missing From iPhones in the UK, Australia, and Other Countries
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Guess someone forgot to enter the holidays for each country on the iCal server...smh...COVID-Era problems, am I right?
Appreciate you think you’re being funny but holidays are built into iOS.
Yes, we can subscribe to another calendar such as the Government version. But you can only deselect Apple’s holiday calendar. You cannot remove it.
For those genuinely interested, Apple Support told me it will need a software update.
FML
The government here publishes a holiday calendar in ICS format we just need to subscribe once and the holiday updates itself every year.
Have you tried subscribing to a holiday calendar? Also if you go on the bottom of calendar on iOS and click calendars, do you see the holiday calendar? If so is it checked? If not, subscribe to one, there are lots of instructions on how to do that. I am not German, so can’t send link, it would be easier for you to find itThere are no holidays for me either... German user. Pls Tim, I wanna be free next christmas
Just load up on multiple calendar subs and make a mess of managing them simply because a trillion dollar company can’t even manage to do the most basic of ****ing QA. Or not trust you to delete the holidays sub they force onto your device.
Thank you for your reply
Yes, the stock holiday calendar is indeed checked. I unchecked and re-enabled it a few times but still no holidays.
I’m aware there are subscribeable holiday calendars in the web as I use one on another device. It would just be nice if the stock one worked. As in the old saying “it just works”
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UK here. My calendar is fine. I’m seeing all 2022 events in now. I’ve got both the apple holidays and the gov.uk feed and they are the same now. Well not the same but the apple feed is actually better due to having non bank holiday events too.
Content is everything.
There are a number of services that seems to be flaky at the moment, especially Apple Music for me on Monterey. So much so that I might well downgrade if this is not sorted soon.
Fixed for me now on Big Sur but not on my iOS 15.2 XS... even after a restart etc. (UK)
So it has now appeared for me in the UK - needed some fiddling to trigger a refresh.
My real disappointment is that this was flagged to Apple ages ago, but they appear to have taken months to fix what on the surface seems like a really simple task of adding the calendars from around the world.
I'm really hoping there was a really tough hidden technical blocker behind the scenes that we know nothing about, rather than Apple being incompetent and forgetting about the rest of the planet they sell stuff to.
My real disappointment is that this was flagged to Apple ages ago, but they appear to have taken months to fix what on the surface seems like a really simple task of adding the calendars from around the world.
I'm really hoping there was a really tough hidden technical blocker behind the scenes that we know nothing about, rather than Apple being incompetent and forgetting about the rest of the planet they sell stuff to.
It's true! No Easter Monday when I was attempting to book my next piercing trainer swaps outs for that Tuesday, back on new year's eve. No Australia Day ?? on 26 January and no Independence Day ? on the fourth of July. There should be a Steve Jobs ? holiday to celebrate the birth, existence and positive influence that many others and I have gained from having in my life. And for lovers of Star Wars - we deserve a public holiday on May The Fourth.
How did you trigger a refresh? I'm getting the 2022 UK holidays on my Macs but not on iPhone or iPad.