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My apple calendar ends after shavuot
I recently notice that my Hebcal ends after Shavuot. I deleted the old one, recreated the calendar, used the subscribe option for Apple, added it to my iCloud, and it still ends after Shavuot on both my iPad and iPhone (I added it on my iPad FYI). Any ideas - again this is not a download but a subscription.
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Thanks for this useful answer. I will do the multipl subscription thing. I already have my yahrtzeit subscription separate so I can do my study selections separately as well and most are still aspirational so I will do a calendars of just the ones I currently use and add the others later.
And of course many thanks for this amazing service. I wish you had a paid option so we could directly support your efforts.
Thanks for sending this calendar URL, this has helped us to debug the issue.
The issue is that you have selected 9 different Daily Learning calendars (Perek Yomi, Tanakh Yomi, Psalms, Daily Rambam, etc) in a single calendar feed, which results in a calendar feed that contains more than the maximum (2400) number of events in a calendar feed.
Size limitations imposed by Google and other calendar clients starting in 2016 require that Hebcal limit the number of events per calendar feed. If the options you select generate many events, the feed may need to be shortened.
This problem is described in a bit more detail on this page:
https://www.hebcal.com/home/1398/number-of-years-in-calendar-feed-subscriptions
Our recommended workaround is to use multiple subscriptions. If you subscribe to 10 different calendar feeds (one for regular holidays + Tel Aviv candle-lighting times and the other 9 for each individual learning calendar), we can control the length of the feed and often provide multiple years of event lookahead.
An added advantage of the multi-subscription approach is that you can choose separate colors in Google Calendar or iOS/iCloud calendar for each calendar event feed.
Hi Aron,
Thanks for writing in! To help troubleshoot, we first need to identify the exact Hebcal calendar URL you're subscribed to, since the options you chose when generating it (e.g. how many years of events to include) are encoded in the URL itself.
Here's how to find it:
**On iPhone or iPad:**
1. Open the **Settings** app
2. Tap **Calendar → Accounts → Subscribed Calendars**
3. Tap the Hebcal calendar in the list
4. The URL in the **Server** field is your feed URL — please copy it and share it with us
The server/URL field shown there is the exact download.hebcal.com URL you subscribed to. We need the full URL to help diagnose the issue.
**If you set it up with iCloud as the location**, the URL may be easier to find on a Mac:
1. Open the **Calendar** app on your Mac
2. In the left sidebar, right-click (or Ctrl-click) the Hebcal subscribed calendar
3. Choose **Get Info**
4. Copy the full URL shown there
Once you share the URL with us, we can check exactly which calendar was generated and whether it needs to be recreated with a longer date range. The most common cause of a calendar ending around Shavuot is that a one-year URL was generated rather than an ongoing subscription — and that's easy to fix!
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Customer support service by UserEcho
Thanks for sending this calendar URL, this has helped us to debug the issue.
The issue is that you have selected 9 different Daily Learning calendars (Perek Yomi, Tanakh Yomi, Psalms, Daily Rambam, etc) in a single calendar feed, which results in a calendar feed that contains more than the maximum (2400) number of events in a calendar feed.
Size limitations imposed by Google and other calendar clients starting in 2016 require that Hebcal limit the number of events per calendar feed. If the options you select generate many events, the feed may need to be shortened.
This problem is described in a bit more detail on this page:
https://www.hebcal.com/home/1398/number-of-years-in-calendar-feed-subscriptions
Our recommended workaround is to use multiple subscriptions. If you subscribe to 10 different calendar feeds (one for regular holidays + Tel Aviv candle-lighting times and the other 9 for each individual learning calendar), we can control the length of the feed and often provide multiple years of event lookahead.
An added advantage of the multi-subscription approach is that you can choose separate colors in Google Calendar or iOS/iCloud calendar for each calendar event feed.