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Apple said its calendar app has never featured International Women's Day. (AP)
Apple didn’t remove International Women’s Day from its calendar app — it was never there
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Apple did not remove International Women’s Day from its calendar app. The holiday never was featured there, the company said.
Social media users complained that during a month celebrating women, tech giant Apple removed International Women’s Day from its calendars.
"Apple quietly removed International Women’s Day from their calendar app," a March 5 Instagram post said. "Put International Women’s Day back on the calendar!" the post’s caption said.
We found other posts, including from the Women’s March Foundation, accusing Apple of removing the March 8 holiday from its calendars.
These posts were flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads.)
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International Women’s Day is a global holiday celebrated since 1911 to honor women’s achievements and to call for gender equity. March is Women’s History Month, which has been celebrated in the U.S. since Congress designated it in 1987. Since 1995, every U.S. president has issued a proclamation declaring March as Women’s History Month, including President Donald Trump on March 6.
Google, another tech giant, removed many cultural holidays from its calendar last year, including Women’s History Month. After recent backlash, Google said it removed the holidays because manually adding hundreds of world holidays wasn’t sustainable, The New York Times and The Verge reported.
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Some social media users lumped in Apple with Google in their posts and criticized both companies.
But Apple said that’s not the case. Apple told PolitiFact that it’s a misunderstanding because neither International Women’s Day nor Women’s History Month were ever featured in Apple calendars.
We rate the claim that Apple removed International Women’s Day from its calendar app False.
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Instagram post, March 5, 2025 (archived)
Facebook post, March 6, 2025 (archived)
Instagram post, March 6, 2025
Threads post, March 6, 2025
X post, March 5, 2025 (archived)
Email exchange with Apple, March 7, 2025
International Women’s Day, Learn about International Women's Day, accessed March 7, 2025
National Women’s History Museum, Women's History Month, accessed March 7, 2025
The White House, Women's History Month 2025, March 6, 2025
The Verge, Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’, Feb. 7, 2025
The New York Times, Google Calendar Deletes Women’s History Month and Other Cultural Events, Feb. 12, 2025
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