“Apple quietly removed International Women’s Day from their calendar app.”

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.

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.