re: Iphones shoving muslim holidays down our throats?

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I appreciate your assistance. I’ve looked before and because of your suggestion, I looked again. I don’t see an option other than “US Holidays”. It’s either checked or unchecked. Is Calendar Labs an app? I don’t see it. Or is that a separate calendar altogether thqn Apple Calendar?

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Within that menu, do you see the option to “subscribe” to a calendar and a field for a URL? You find the calendar you want on a website like calendar labs and copy/paste the link there

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They have emojis for Islam and Judaism but no cross for Catholic/Christian.

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what? My mom uses the latin cross emoji non stop in her texts.



I swear some of y'all have a persecution fetish

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Except for Apple’s US holiday calendar. You can either choose to display it or not display it in the calendar app, but you stay subscribed either way. It can’t be deleted.

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This feels like a distinction without a difference. If it doesn't show up on your calendar, are you genuinely bothered by the fact that the dates of Ramadan are buried somewhere deep in your phone?

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Except for Apple’s US holiday calendar. You can either choose to display it or not display it in the calendar app, but you stay subscribed either way. It can’t be deleted. When they first did this it was a bigger pain because it used to get turned back on with updates or some restarts or some other seemingly random occurrences. It’s happens less often now. I think Photos uses the same calendar to suggest memories based on holidays, but I turned that off.

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This feels like a distinction without a difference. If it doesn't show up on your calendar, are you genuinely bothered by the fact that the dates of Ramadan are buried somewhere deep in your phone?

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If that were the case I wouldn’t be forced to stay subscribed to it. It and the birthday app also used to turn back on automatically (happens less often now) which was mentioned in my comment that you left out while bringing up Ramadan out of the blue in response, and initially it used a specific server that I could see being contacted every so often even when US Holidays was set to not display.

Guess what calendars never randomly turn themselves back on or contact their servers - the ones that I can delete or just not subscribe to in the first place.

Bringing up being concerned about dates of Ramadan being buried in my phone is just petty and attacking a straw man.

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If that were the case I wouldn’t be forced to stay subscribed to it. It and the birthday app also used to turn back on automatically (happens less often now) which was mentioned in my comment that you left out while bringing up Ramadan out of the blue in response, and initially it used a specific server that I could see being contacted every so often even when US Holidays was set to not display.

Guess what calendars never randomly turn themselves back on or contact their servers - the ones that I can delete or just not subscribe to in the first place.

Bringing up being concerned about dates of Ramadan being buried in my phone is just petty and attacking a straw man.

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I'm not trying to be petty, and I dislike strawmen. You said it used to happen frequently. If that were still the case, I would understand your position a bit more. You've said that it doesn't happen often anymore. How often are we talking?

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I'm not trying to be petty, and I dislike strawmen. You said it used to happen frequently. If that were still the case, I would understand your position a bit more. You've said that it doesn't happen often anymore. How often are we talking?

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My position in my comment to you was that Apple’s US Holidays calendar cannot be deleted/unsubcribed like you had mentioned to the other poster.

But since you asked. How often doesn’t matter. If I don’t want it and have my own Holiday calendar turning on automatically and contacting the server should never happen. Getting notifications and pushing some events out of view in weekly or monthly views when I had multiple entries on a date were also problematic. It doesn’t and didn’t happen at all for calendars that you can truly unsubscribe from and delete.

My personal view is that Apple should offer options with holidays and not force a one size fits all, and that those options should include not subscribing to it at all.

In regards to what currently is happening it has happened a few times with 26 versus what seemed like every restart, update, and more when Apple first started doing this which was years ago, but I didn’t pay attention to if this was occurring with beta or with the released versions of 26. It has improved, but that doesn’t change my opinion that It apple shouldn’t force the subscription now or in the past.

I’ve had an iPhone over a decade and never noticed. I’d hardly say they’re “diving it down my throat”. Just ignore it and move on.

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They have emojis for Islam and Judaism but no cross for Catholic/Christian.

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You are so full of shite.

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My position in my comment to you was that Apple’s US Holidays calendar cannot be deleted/unsubcribed like you had mentioned to the other poster.

But since you asked. How often doesn’t matter. If I don’t want it and have my own Holiday calendar turning on automatically and contacting the server should never happen. Getting notifications and pushing some events out of view in weekly or monthly views when I had multiple entries on a date were also problematic. It doesn’t and didn’t happen at all for calendars that you can truly unsubscribe from and delete.

My personal view is that Apple should offer options with holidays and not force a one size fits all, and that those options should include not subscribing to it at all.

In regards to what currently is happening it has happened a few times with 26 versus what seemed like every restart, update, and more when Apple first started doing this which was years ago, but I didn’t pay attention to if this was occurring with beta or with the released versions of 26. It has improved, but that doesn’t change my opinion that It apple shouldn’t force the subscription now or in the past.

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Stop being a snowflake and get a different kind of phone if you don't like how your iPhone works.