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WannaApple?

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Has this happened to anyone else?

As of just yesterday, I have all of these new islamic, jewish, muslim and other holidays showing up in my calendar under the US Holidays. Things like Eid-Al-Fitr, Ramadan, Holi, etc. I haven't changed anything and I've looked in my files, extensions, settings, etc. to make sure that nothing has gotten installed without my permission.

Is anyone else seeing these currently? Any idea on how to get rid of them if possible? I don't want or need these other nationality holidays on my US calendar. Thanks;
 
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fisherking said:
open the app, click on calendars upper left, and remove the ones you don't want.
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This isn't the problem, I know how to remove calendars. There are none in my left panel that I don't want. These new holidays are showing up when I select US Holidays. This US Holidays calendar has always been selected and it's only since about yesterday that these new holidays have been added.
 
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funny, i just noticed this too; and am also only subscribed to the US holidays. so... something's up with apple. i removed the US holidays, re-added it, and the other calendars are there as well.

EDIT: ok, remove the holiday calendar, then go to File>new calendar subscription. add the apple url:
webcal://ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics

then you can name it, and choose to save it on your mac or icloud. gets rid of the 'other' calendars.
 
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I had originally read Apple had gotten rid of Good Friday and Easter holidays. While that wouldn't surprise me it turns out not to be true on my calendar. But I do have all these extra days that I've never heard of. It would be better if Apple created a few different calendars like US Government Holidays, and then different calendars for different religions. I am going to drop this calendar as it is now since it has way too many dates I simply don't care about.
 
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Weaselboy said:
Yeah... looks like Apple is monkeying around with the US Holiday calendar on their end. The other day there was a thread that Easter had disappeared, now they have added it back with a bunch of other holidays. I now see a bunch of Jewish and Muslim holidays listed also.
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if u try what i suggested above, it fixed this (for me, anyway)...
 
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Weaselboy said:
That works... thanks. Who is hosting that? It does not look like an official Apple calendar.
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The site ical.mac.com used to be a calendar aggregation site. I didn't think it was still out there.

Apple has their un-deletable US Holidays calendar on macOS and iOS now.
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neliason said:
I had originally read Apple had gotten rid of Good Friday and Easter holidays. While that wouldn't surprise me it turns out not to be true on my calendar. But I do have all these extra days that I've never heard of. It would be better if Apple created a few different calendars like US Government Holidays, and then different calendars for different religions. I am going to drop this calendar as it is now since it has way too many dates I simply don't care about.
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The title of the calendar is "US Holidays". So why shouldn't it have Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc holidays in it, as well as secular holidays?
 
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posguy99 said:
The title of the calendar is "US Holidays". So why shouldn't it have Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc holidays in it, as well as secular holidays?
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If I and most people from the US have never heard of the holiday then it isn’t what I’d consider a US holiday. There are plenty of holidays I have heard of that aren’t on the list. What are the criteria of US holidays?
 
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neliason said:
If I and most people from the US have never heard of the holiday then it isn’t what I’d consider a US holiday. There are plenty of holidays I have heard of that aren’t on the list. What are the criteria of US holidays?
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These are the official US holidays.
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I agree that it should list traditional American holidays only or federal holidays if we select "American". Most users want to know traditionally recognized holidays for vacation time, bank closings, holiday reminders for planning, gifts, etc.. They could have personal selection options for non-traditional American holidays if they want... or international options or an "all holidays option" but these recent default calendar changes by Apple are confusing for most users in the U.S.. Otherwise it kind of defeats the point of having default American holidays listed on the calendar at all.
 
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If I'm not mistaken, these are the holidays added by Apple to the iCloud Calendar.
Lunar new year
Groundhog Day
St. Patrick's Day
Palm Sunday
Good Friday
Easter
Passover
Orthodox Easter
Holi
Cinco de Mayo
Juneteenth
First day of Ramadan
Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Adha
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Ashura
Indigenous People's Day
Columbus Day
Diwali
Hanukkah
Kwanzaa
 
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neliason said:
I had originally read Apple had gotten rid of Good Friday and Easter holidays. While that wouldn't surprise me it turns out not to be true on my calendar. But I do have all these extra days that I've never heard of. It would be better if Apple created a few different calendars like US Government Holidays, and then different calendars for different religions. I am going to drop this calendar as it is now since it has way too many dates I simply don't care about.
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You don't have to receive notifications or alerts for them. I simply went through and checked alerts for those I want.
 
WannaApple? said:
Has this happened to anyone else?

As of just yesterday, I have all of these new islamic, jewish, muslim and other holidays showing up in my calendar under the US Holidays. Things like Eid-Al-Fitr, Ramadan, Holi, etc. I haven't changed anything and I've looked in my files, extensions, settings, etc. to make sure that nothing has gotten installed without my permission.

Is anyone else seeing these currently? Any idea on how to get rid of them if possible? I don't want or need these other nationality holidays on my US calendar. Thanks;
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Yes, it's happening to me also.
 
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Ledsteplin said:
If I'm not mistaken, these are the holidays added by Apple to the iCloud Calendar.
Lunar new year
Groundhog Day
St. Patrick's Day
Palm Sunday
Good Friday
Easter
Passover
Orthodox Easter
Holi
Cinco de Mayo
First day of Ramadan
Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Adha
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Ashura
Indigenous People's Day
Columbus Day
Diwali
Hanukkah
Kwanzaa
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They should have made these changes on April 1st so we could all question if these calendar changes were done for real or as part of the holiday festivities. At least they added my favorite obscure U.S. holiday "Groundhog Day". What would any holiday calendar list be without it? :confused:
 
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SoCalReviews said:
They should have made these changes on April 1st so we could all question if these calendar changes were done for real or as part of the holiday festivities. At least they added my favorite obscure U.S. holiday "Groundhog Day". What would any holiday calendar list be without it? :confused:
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And I missed one. Juneteenth. Added it to the list above.
 
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fisherking said:
funny, i just noticed this too; and am also only subscribed to the US holidays. so... something's up with apple. i removed the US holidays, re-added it, and the other calendars are there as well.

EDIT: ok, remove the holiday calendar, then go to File>new calendar subscription. add the apple url:
webcal://ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics

then you can name it, and choose to save it on your mac or icloud. gets rid of the 'other' calendars.
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Oh you are a genius!!! It worked. I will share this if you don't mind.
 
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