UK Bank Holidays Missing From Your iPhone Calendar? Here's What to Do

[Anthony Sullivan]

In Ireland we have this "Christmas Dad (observed)" and "New Year's Day (observed)" two days after each day, but we don't use any such term in the country. Sounds like an American thing.

It's literally what happened this year though, since Christmas and New Year's fell on weekends.

 

[contacos]

Now that you mention it, also missing in Germany. Didn’t even notice before but it already missed two in January

 

[ninecows]

Danish holidays are missing as well

 

[LV426]

I'd do this with some trepidation, as I just know in the bottom of my heart I'd be stacking up problems for the day when Apple fix this particular issue only for duplicate holidays to start appearing in the calendar. I've seen that kind of nonsense before.

 

[ivantheipodder]

Same with Australia. Seems like it’s a global thing.

 

[Fred Zed]

I don’t use many Google accounts or apps. But I do utilize Google Calendar on iPhone via account settings. So using the stock iPhone calendar linked to my google calendar I have UK holidays added by default which works fine. Hence why this issue never effected me.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

It’s alright, you just look outside and see how many prams there are

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

I had a relative with a leap year birthday. Entering it in my Palm Pilot totally crashed it. I had to do a complete wipe to get it back. I think the PC software would allow for leap year entries, but when it tried to sync, the Pilot crashed. Good quality control there... Good grief.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

All last year, I had three entries for all US, and some international holidays. I just gave up trying to figure out where they were coming from. *shrug* I haven't looked yet this year. I did remove a calendar, and ALL of them disappeared which seemed really odd... Whatever. NBD...

 

[trip1ex]

Have the opposite problem, how do I delete items from US Holidays off my calendar?

exactly.

I created my own calendar to get rid of them. But it seems like a recent update added Apple's calendar back so I had 2 calendars with duplicate holidays and all the non-essential if not unheard of holidays were back annoying me.

But I unchecked Apple's calendar and am good to go again. KNock on wood.

 

[ninecows]

I'd do this with some trepidation, as I just know in the bottom of my heart I'd be stacking up problems for the day when Apple fix this particular issue only for duplicate holidays to start appearing in the calendar. I've seen that kind of nonsense before.

Or that they are all off with +/- 1 day?

 

[abaxworld]

It happens the same every year with the Spain Holidays calendar. Until the end of January, Apple doesn't update the calendar. They might be more interesting in space ship cars and x-ray glasses and not to keep the daily apps we all use updated.

 

[Quackington]

I had no idea about this issue. I was wondering why yesterday wasn't showing as a holiday in the calendar app. Thanks for this, just added a subscription.

 

[starkjs]

Same for Australia too as already mentioned by

Same with Australia. Seems like it’s a global thing.

I logged it with apple about a year ago and have not seen any response to my case.
Wonder if they are no longer going to provide ical dates anymore....

 

[Radeon85]

I use Google calendar so no issues with UK bank holidays not showing in the Apple calendar.

 

[polyphenol]

Looks like they are now present - at least for the UK.

 

[starkjs]

they have show up for Australia now too !!

 

[bobnugget]

Strange, this has worked throughout for me - I have a UK Holidays calendar from here: https://p09-calendars.icloud.com/holidays/gb_en-gb.ics and it has had the replacement bank holiday for new years day, and looks to have the rest of the year in too

 

[starkjs]

Interesting, I am using the main address of:

https://calendars.icloud.com/holidays/au_en-au.ics

which gives me:
;; ANSWER SECTION: calendars.icloud.com. 4502 IN CNAME calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 24 IN A 17.248.252.13 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 24 IN A 17.248.252.69 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 24 IN A 17.248.252.38 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 24 IN A 17.248.252.40 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 24 IN A 17.248.252.11 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 24 IN A 17.248.252.41 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 24 IN A 17.248.252.105 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 24 IN A 17.248.252.110

The fqdn of p09-calendars.icloud.com resolves to the same CNAME

;; ANSWER SECTION: p09-calendars.icloud.com. 4502 IN CNAME calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 43 IN A 17.248.252.14 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 43 IN A 17.248.252.44 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 43 IN A 17.248.252.10 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 43 IN A 17.248.252.8 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 43 IN A 17.248.252.73 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 43 IN A 17.248.252.68 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 43 IN A 17.248.252.5 calendars.fe.apple-dns.net. 43 IN A 17.248.252.15

So I assume it should be no difference and either will give you back one of many IPs from a pool.
Strange, not sure why some were having issues and other were not.

 

[ivantheipodder]

they have show up for Australia now too !!

Same for me but only on MacOS. Not iOS and iPadOS.

 

[BanjoDudeAhoy]

I was wondering why I still didn't have bank holidays in my region. Turns out that I use English (US) as my language but that doesn't match my region and the regional calendar is in the region's main language.
After adding the regional language, I now see bank holidays.

Also, sorry for reviving the thread but I figured this might be interesting to some.

 

[Quackington]

I ended up adding them through a calendar downloaded earlier this year but then Apple fixed it, so now I the holidays show up twice. Argh!

Oh well, I only have to put up with it for this year.