New, unwanted holidays showing up in Cal

[CPTmom2wp]

Let's simplify this. Apple should provide a list of as many "holidays" as they can think of in settings and then the end device or account user can check only the ones they want for their own calendars.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Exactly. There is no "eid al adha" - a muslim festival to celebrate the first Jew (still trying to wrap my head around that one) on or in the list of official US holidays, so why is it forced upon our calendars with no way remove it?

Because many complained Easter was not on the calendar. So they added it, along with a bunch of others.

 

[BitTheApple]

I don’t give a rats ass about “Ashura”: a holiday where Muslims hit themselves with sticks until their heads bleed.



Take these irrelevant ( in the US)

Holidays off the default calendar or... I know? ( this would take a real master programmer),

Let us select the Holidays we want or Don’t Want!



Next post will be about why we have Asian emojis (Americans can’t make these stupid little drawings without yellow skin?)

 

[Ledsteplin]

I don’t give a rats ass about “Ashura”: a holiday where Muslims hit themselves with sticks until their heads bleed.



Take these irrelevant ( in the US)

Holidays off the default calendar or... I know? ( this would take a real master programmer),

Let us select the Holidays we want or Don’t Want!



Next post will be about why we have Asian emojis (Americans can’t make these stupid little drawings without yellow skin?)

You can change the skin color of most of the emoji.

 

[Shubbs]

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;

On my iPhone. I went to calendars app. Clicked on calendars at the bottom. Then it brings up your email accounts and calendars under them. I had US Holidays turned on for one of my email account and under Other. I turned off the one under Other and that fixed it! I have all the American holidays without the foreign ones.

 

[Ledsteplin]

On my iPhone. I went to calendars app. Clicked on calendars at the bottom. Then it brings up your email accounts and calendars under them. I had US Holidays turned on for one of my email account and under Other. I turned off the one under Other and that fixed it! I have all the American holidays without the foreign ones.

Is Easter on it?

 

[Shubbs]

Is Easter on it?

That’s weird I don’t see Easter. It seems like it should be there since I have the holidays calendar selected. Ugh! Always something!

 

[Ledsteplin]

That’s weird I don’t see Easter. It seems like it should be there since I have the holidays calendar selected. Ugh! Always something!

That was the whole issue. Apple didn't have Easter on the calendar. Many complained about it, so Apple added Easter, along with a bunch of other events. Easter is not an official US holiday.

 

[Lbryan]

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?

Being an American
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and, of course, by us you mean those who this bothers, not everyone else...

Me it freaking bothers me. Those are not US holidays or Christian holidays. In god we trust!

 

[russell_314]

I realize this is an old thread but I had the same issue and it seems no one has posted the fix here. I use Calendars 5 and either I haven't noticed it or it was added recently but you can hide the "US Holidays" iCloud calendar. If you’re using the default Apple calendar app you can hide it as well. This solves the problem of removing irrelevant holidays but actual US holidays are gone too. The fix for this is go to calendarlabs.com And you can either subscribe to a US holidays calendar or add them as a list. I’m sure there are lots of people that have the issue so I figured I should share my solution.

 

[Ledsteplin]

I realize this is an old thread but I had the same issue and it seems no one has posted the fix here. I use Calendars 5 and either I haven't noticed it or it was added recently but you can hide the "US Holidays" iCloud calendar. If you’re using the default Apple calendar app you can hide it as well. This solves the problem of removing irrelevant holidays but actual US holidays are gone too. The fix for this is go to calendarlabs.com And you can either subscribe to a US holidays calendar or add them as a list. I’m sure there are lots of people that have the issue so I figured I should share my solution.

Yeah, but the official US Holidays calendar doesn't include Easter. And that's what set all this in motion.

 

[posguy99]

Yeah, but the official US Holidays calendar doesn't include Easter. And that's what set all this in motion.

But it does, as was pointed out earlier up-thread.

 

[russell_314]

But it does, as was pointed out earlier up-thread.

Apple took Easter out so then people got upset so they’re like fine we'll put Easter back but will also include every other random religious holiday. I know the backstory but that still doesn’t make useless holidays showing up on my calendar any more helpful. I figured I would include my fix because I’m sure I’m not the only one annoyed by this.

 

[timidpimpin]

Bottom line... Apple doesn't need your permission to update or change a calander you wilfully subscribe to. If it bothers you, then just unsubscribe and manually enter only the holidays you want to be reiminded of.

 

[nick42983]

Bottom line... Apple doesn't need your permission to update or change a calander you wilfully subscribe to. If it bothers you, then just unsubscribe and manually enter only the holidays you want to be reiminded of.

The problem is that Apple seems intent on force-feeding unwanted, non-American holidays to its users through a backdoor even if they turn "US holidays" off. I use the Things 3 app and it links to Apple Calendar, in the "upcoming" view I am still seeing "Eid al-Adha" as a holiday tomorrow even though I have turned off "US Calendars" on all of my devices and only manually input holidays now to avoid Apple's social engineering.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Apple took Easter out so then people got upset so they’re like fine we'll put Easter back but will also include every other random religious holiday. I know the backstory but that still doesn’t make useless holidays showing up on my calendar any more helpful. I figured I would include my fix because I’m sure I’m not the only one annoyed by this.

Easter never was included in the US Holidays calendar to begin with. But when people started complaining about it, Apple included it, along with a bunch of other holidays most users didn't want. They thought it the fair thing to do. They should give us the option to delete those we don't want.

 

[russell_314]

Easter never was included in the US Holidays calendar to begin with. But when people started complaining about it, Apple included it, along with a bunch of other holidays most users didn't want. They thought it the fair thing to do. They should give us the option to delete those we don't want.

This information was just from the few news articles I could find but I don't remember personally so I don't know. I agree that there should be an option to select religious holidays you want. I guess for those people with hundreds of calendar entries it might not even be noticable but I only have a few and try to keep the important events so I don't miss them.