Snooze Calendar Notifications in Big Sur

This just really stinks especially with how virtual we are these days. I use to have 3-4 events and reminders for a few days on my calendar now it’s like 8-10 per day and the right side of my Mac is just littered with notifications now that I can snooze for certain durations , or I can just close them , then I forget about important things. Might as well just keep the full calendar open in “day” view.

Sofio1724 wrote:

Idris,

OK, let me ask differently: do you use Calendar at all? If so, do you have it alert you about upcoming items on your calendar? How much in advance do you have it alert you? Are there some events that you want an alert well in advance but others, closer to the time?

How is how I use Calendar relevant to this discussion? Why is it if such interest to you?

Fred Royster wrote:

Idris why are you even on this post when its about people complaining about the snooze calendar function when most everyone hates the change that you can pick a variable snooze time.

Yes, that may well be why many people in this thread post. But, it’s not a requirement.

Agree with all comments. With such a big outcry from so many Apple users for such a long period of time - and no reason given why they don't revert to something that obviously worked so well - just don't understand. It's not like we are asking you to develop something new. Very, very annoying. Each time I see an upgrade to Big Sur, I download and hope that I will see a change to the snooze single option.

I think it is time to get the media involved, does someone know any journalist for this matter. It is not only to establish a fact, but it could be really interesting for a reporter to find out the backgrounds. We all assume a deliberate action of Apple, maybe it is just an unavoidable mistake (men or machine)?

Any progress on this? Just updated to Big Sur over the weekend and I missed my first meeting today because apparently I dismissed the reminders. The drop down in previous versions to select the next reminder was so helpful.

Please bring it back ASAP.

I think most of the people who have posted here also gave feedback. I have more than once. This is more of a venting section. This is the first time since I started buying Apple products that I've ever had a problem with one of their operating system upgrades. That is one of the reasons I ended up buying an iPhone, Macbook and watch after decades of fighting Windows glitches but I've had nothing but problems with Big Sur. All kinds of glitches, not being able to close windows and having to restart to get rid of them, my battery says it needs service which only happened after the change to Big Sur and my battery seems fine. I hate it and I'm very disappointed.

This is also a highly-ranked google result for people searching for answers, so it is a valuable collection point for redirecting people to proper channels for feedback/complaints.

It saddens me that I didn't realize just how good my calendar reminders were, and I simply.... dismissed them.

Have not read every thread so i dont know if the importance of this missing feature has been stated, but this problem results in me missing meetings, or being late.

What used to happen was, I get an alert 1 hour before, then I snooze it till say 5 minutes before (or whatever time depending on the nature of the meeting). Meeting not missed.

Now what happens is the notice pops up, and I either leave it there permanently but it overlaps on apps I am working in so its very very annoying, OR I click snooze but it keeps popping back every 5 minutes, so eventually I click the x icon and it closes but it does not come back. So meetings are sometimes missed. Big issue.

So as a 15 year plus Mac Calendar user, I now have to source an alternative Mac calendar app which has this feature.

While it is interesting to know that so many share my frustration w Apple and their lack of response to our mutual disgust w their obliteration of the reminder function, the only true recourse we have is to go to the feedback site and complain there.

I did the same. Unfortunately I spend the money for BusyCal for niothing, cause as good as the app is, it has antother annoying issue: if you are using spaces in macOS (what I do) the notification window stays in front of any other window when you are not on the first space. So wenever I get a calender notification og BusyCal and I'm in antother space than the first (or call it homescreen) working, I have to interrupt my work and anser this notification to continue even if I click on another window. I wrote to the BusyCal support back and forth and they offer a option in the settings to avoid this behaviour, but it didn't worked in my told usecase (more than one space) and they don't plan to change it.

I'm stunned that somebody thought this was a positive change and that its not back already from an update. RESTORE THE **** SNOOZE FEATURE. Apple is becoming a company that is not concerned with their customers.

I agree with you https://discussions.apple.com/profile/cfs1230

they have made it as useless as it is in iOS. I complained about this years ago when the limited snooze facility appeared in iOS. I wonder how many else did.

Apple appear to be making MacOS and iOS more similar. It this case they are making OS worse instead of improving iOS

danfrommountida wrote:

Have sent this complaint over and over for months as have many others. No, Apple is NOT listening!!!

They are listening. They have just not yet chosen to make the change you want. Sometimes that's the way life goes.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one, I thought I was missing something.

This isn't the only change that's annoying, another that has caused me multiple problems is in email. I have Conversation Groups, but if I hit reply to one person it often selects the wrong person, (who ever is at the top of the list). So I have to expand the list and specifically select the message.

I'm usually happy with OS upgrades, but I really don't like this. It seems that maybe now Steve has been gone a long time that the attention to detail that was so precious to Apple has passed away with him.