Below is a simple guide to enable you to easily add the future and past national holiday dates for the UK, US or almost any other country to your Iphone or Ipad.
Apple provides a useful feature in IOS 4 and greater that allows you to subscribe to any Public Internet Calendar. Apple also makes things easy by proving its own Public Internet Calendars.
Follow the steps below.
- Unlock your Iphone or Ipad.
- Tap the “Settings” Icon.
- Tap “Mail, Contacts, Calendars”.
- Scroll down and tap “Add Account”.
- Tap “Other”.
- Tap “Add Subscribed Calendar”.
- Locate the server field input box and enter the URL of you desired calendar
e.g. UK – ical.mac.com/ical/UK32Holidays.ics
US – ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics
- Tap “Next”.
- If you want to you can change the name of the calendar on the next screen under “description”
- When you are happy Tap “save”.
You now have every UK holiday or US Holiday in the Iphone or Ipad Calendar app. They are viewable just like any other appointment.
Follow the link below to find all of Apple’s Public Internet Calendars
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/calendars/
You can also use the same method above to import Google Calendars.
Really useful, thanks!
Been looking for this for ages, thanks!
Just a shame it doesn’t distinguish between “special” days (like the saints days or british summer time start and end etc.) and public/bank holidays but still very useful.
Try opening March 2013 on monthly view, Calender crashes. No fix for this issue until you update to ios 6.1
Thanks for this, but how can I get the UK holidays to appear on my Macbook as well as iPad?
You should be able to do the same with the calender on your Mac.
Look for “Add Subscribed Calendar” or internet calender under the calender settings.
Excellent!
Brilliant, still working on latest iPad and iOS. Thanks.