Some Bank Holidays missing from my iPhone calendar

Teapot55

I’ve always had ‘UK Holidays’ enabled on my iPhone calendar but this year some of the Bank Holidays are missing. New Year and the Easter and Christmas Bank Holidays are showing, but the two in May and the August Bank Holiday I’ve had to add in myself. 

Randomly, Christmas Eve is showing as a UK Holiday. 

I’ve had the same phone for over three years and haven’t encountered this before. 

Suggestions please!

Neil_Jones

Christmas Eve is widely observed as a full or partial holiday, but not a legal one, in this country anyway.

This sounds more like you may have the wrong calendar selected/viewed/whatever, since the May Day holiday isn't unique to this country, but the last Monday in May probably is.  You should be able I would have thought to pick another calendar, remove the UK one, re-add it, remove the old one and switch back which may force an update.

Also it may be that a bank holiday was moved in 2020 and there was no Bank Holiday Monday on the first Monday in May, it was moved to the Friday for VE Day, which turned out to be a bit of a damp squib what with lockdown and everything but...  May be just Apple didn't update the schedule for the one off?

Motherofcats3

Hi Teapot55, I'm having exactly the same problem. Did you find a solution?

Teapot55

Hi @Motherofcats3. 

No. I gave up trying to work out why some Bank Holidays were missing from my iPhone calendar. 

I have made the assumption that it must be a fault that has developed of late with (don’t faint) the iPhone 6. I did look for posts on the internet from people with the same problem but my search yielded no results at the time. 

In the end I just went through the calendar and added the missing ones in manually. Luckily, after years of planning my time for work (including annual leave!) I know the Bank Holidays off by heart. 

macman

How does the 'UK' iPhone calendar allow for the differences between Scottish and English /Welsh bank holidays?

Frozen_up_north

Teapot55 said:

Hi @Motherofcats3. 

No. I gave up trying to work out why some Bank Holidays were missing from my iPhone calendar. 

<SNIP>

In the end I just went through the calendar and added the missing ones in manually. Luckily, after years of planning my time for work (including annual leave!) I know the Bank Holidays off by heart. 

Currently my iPhone SE (2020) with iOS 14.7.1 is missing many of the UK “Holidays”

Regards work and public holidays, when I worked in a local government organisation the IT support guy refused to include public holidays on the works computer email server. He said it may offend some minorities and therefore it was “safer” to not include them. You just couldn’t make it up…

The official Government list of UK public holidays is located at:
https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays?mod=article_inline&mod=article_inline

The above site includes a “click to add” button, one click adds them to an iPhone calendar.

Teapot55

macman said:

How does the 'UK' iPhone calendar allow for the differences between Scottish and English /Welsh bank holidays?

Good point! The screenshot below is one way they do it:



However, 2nd January (BH in Scotland) is present in some years but missing in others, randomly. 

Teapot55

Frozen_up_north said:

Teapot55 said:

Hi @Motherofcats3. 

No. I gave up trying to work out why some Bank Holidays were missing from my iPhone calendar. 

Currently my iPhone SE (2020) with iOS 14.7.1 is missing many of the UK “Holidays”

Regards work and public holidays, when I worked in a local government organisation the IT support guy refused to include public holidays on the works computer email server. He said it may offend some minorities and therefore it was “safer” to not include them. You just couldn’t make it up…

The official Government list of UK public holidays is located at:
https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays?mod=article_inline&mod=article_inline

The above site includes a “click to add” button, one click adds them to an iPhone calendar.

Most interesting! I just assumed it was my ‘fault’ for just having an ‘old’ phone. 

I think that IT guy had been reading too many of the ‘We can’t have Christmas any more’ urban myths in the tabloids. We did indeed used to get lists of religious dates sent to us by the local authority for information where I worked, so that if we chose we could inform ourselves of what was happening in the local community. I found it quite good to know that some of my friends would be celebrating Diwali, so I could send a greeting on fb. 

However, national Bank Holidays are not the same, they’re official public holidays, nothing much to do with religion any more. Obviously they were originally based on religious observance but have morphed into tradition. 

Neil_Jones

Teapot55 said:

macman said:

How does the 'UK' iPhone calendar allow for the differences between Scottish and English /Welsh bank holidays?

However, 2nd January (BH in Scotland) is present in some years but missing in others, randomly. 

I think it follows the normal pattern of if it falls on a weekend it lands on the following Monday.  But in 2022 New Year's Day falls on the Saturday and the 2nd falls on the Sunday, so the Scottish holidays are in lieu on the Monday and the Tuesday.  Its probably whether Apple remember to add it or not.  Most other countries that have public/"bank holidays" (or a local equivalent of them) don't do the whole deferral thing, so if Christmas Day falls on a Saturday, you don't get the following Monday as well, that seems to be mostly a UK (or maybe Commonwealth) thing.  Australia does the in lieu thing for Christmas and New Year.

Teapot55

Update on the Bank Holiday dates for 2022 that were missing from my iPhone calendar:

on adding in some new appointments to my iPhone calendar yesterday I noticed that all the ‘UK Holidays’ have now appeared, including the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee on Fri 3 June. 

As a side issue, had anyone else noticed that we have three Public Holidays that week - w/c Mon 30 May? (and is that week also half term week for most schools?)

emmajones1976

Teapot55 said:

Update on the Bank Holiday dates for 2022 that were missing from my iPhone calendar:

on adding in some new appointments to my iPhone calendar yesterday I noticed that all the ‘UK Holidays’ have now appeared, including the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee on Fri 3 June. 

As a side issue, had anyone else noticed that we have three Public Holidays that week - w/c Mon 30 May? (and is that week also half term week for most schools?)

There are only TWO holidays that week, the Monday is moved to Friday and the additional one is Thursday.

And yes, it will be half term week.