How to Remove Holidays From the iPhone Calendar

To hide holiday events in Apple Calendar, open Calendar, tap Calendars, and deselect the holiday calendar for your country or region. This hides that calendar’s events without deleting your own appointments. You can select the calendar again whenever you want the holidays back.

The holiday calendar is a separate calendar in Apple’s app. Its events may come from Apple, Google, or another connected account. These instructions apply to the current iPhone Calendar app and keep your own appointments visible. If you see more than one copy of a holiday, look for multiple holiday calendars rather than deleting individual events.

Hide a holiday calendar

1. Open the Calendar app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Calendars at the bottom to open the list of calendars that can appear in the app.
3. Find US Holidays, another regional holiday calendar, or a holiday calendar under a connected account. Tap its checked circle to deselect it.
4. Tap Done, then look at a month where holidays were visible. Those events should no longer appear. If some remain, return to Calendars and check for a second holiday calendar.

Hiding a calendar is reversible. Return to Calendar > Calendars and select the same circle to show the events again. This does not change events you created in a personal calendar.

Can you remove just one holiday?

You cannot delete one event from Apple’s built-in Holidays calendar. It is a subscription calendar, so its provider controls the entries. Hiding the calendar hides all its holidays. If you only want a few dates, hide the built-in calendar and add those dates as events on a calendar you manage. You can also subscribe to a different holiday calendar if one matches your needs better.

Do not delete a personal, work, or shared calendar just to remove a holiday. That could remove appointments you need. Likewise, turning off an entire account’s Calendars switch is broader than hiding one holiday calendar. If US Holidays appears under Other and has no Delete Calendar option, that is expected for Apple’s built-in calendar; use its checked circle to hide it.

If holidays are still showing

Open Calendar > Calendars again and inspect each section of the list. A regional calendar under Other and a holiday calendar from a connected account can both be selected. Deselect the other holiday calendar and tap Done. If one apparent holiday remains, check its calendar name before changing anything else: it may be an event on a personal or shared calendar, rather than part of the holiday subscription.

If Calendars shows no holiday calendar, verify that you are using Apple Calendar and that the events are not coming from another app or account. The name and section in the calendar list tell you which source to investigate. Avoid force restarting the phone or disabling all calendar syncing as a first response; neither is needed to hide Apple’s regional calendar.

Show holidays from another country

Open Calendar > Calendars, tap Add Calendar, then Add Holiday Calendar. Choose the calendar you want and tap Done. You can show more than one regional calendar, but overlapping holidays may then appear more than once.

Hide the right calendar

Holiday events can come from more than one calendar. The built-in Holidays calendar may be visible, but a subscribed calendar, work account, or imported calendar can add similar events. In Calendar, tap Calendars and inspect the list rather than turning off every calendar at once. Uncheck only the holiday source you no longer want to see, then return to the month view to confirm the events disappeared. This hides the calendar's events without necessarily deleting the source.

If one holiday remains, open that event to identify its calendar. A manually created event or one from a different subscription will not disappear when you hide the built-in Holidays calendar. To change which country's holidays appear, review the available holiday calendar choices and your region settings rather than editing individual holiday events one by one.

Can I remove a single built-in holiday? Usually the built-in calendar is managed as a set. Hide that source and, if needed, create a calendar with only the dates you want. Holidays can also appear in the Photos app, which has a separate switch for holiday events in iPhone Photos memories.

If you want to change reminders for your own events instead, see our guide to iPhone calendar alert settings. To check your Apple to-do lists from a Windows computer, see how to get to your Apple Reminders on a PC. Apple explains holiday calendar visibility and adding regions in Use the Holidays calendar on iPhone.