How do you snooze calendar notifications more than the default 5 min?
In Catalina, you could long-press the Snooze button and get a choice as to how long the notification was snoozed. I tried it in Big Sur and I don't get the list.
iMac 27″, macOS 10.13
No, the manual just says that if the notification has the Options button, click Options then click Snooze. There is no option to long-press Snooze to get different snooze durations. They used to have long-pressing Snooze to get different durations in the Calendar documentation for Big Sur, but they changed the documentation shortly after 11.1 was released. They have removed references to long-pressing which tells you that it isn't a bug; they actually removed the ability to get different snooze durations. Do NOT expect to see it come back with the next release. If you want to see that ability to come back, file Feedback with Apple as they do not check this forum. This forum is strictly user-to-user support. Here is where you can file Feedback: https://www.apple.com/feedback/calendar.html
It's better than nothing but I find it so odd that they would make it more wordy and less easy to read quickly. They already had a system that worked so why go to the trouble to redo it.
OMG they finally effing fixed it!!!!! The latest update did it. We won (finally) :)
With all the snooze options back? 2 hours, 1 day, 2 days, 2 hours before.... etc? I have no way of checking as I reverted to Catalina in order to preserve those options.
No, the max is 1 hour. Not sure why because that's dumb...but it is a big improvement...
Obviously, no-one of importance at Apple uses their calendar event with reminders. If they are not going to fix this issue perhaps they will inform us of the better calendar app that they use. I was truly hoping that it would be fixed with the 11.2.1 update. Now it is even more obvious that Apple does not use this app.
Agreed, this is a stupid downgrade by someone who doesn’t seem to use a Mac! It was annoying before that you couldn’t snooze to 2 days before which would be helpful for birthdays etc. To give you enough time to get something in the post! But now to remove this completely and also dump you into the calendar when clicking it makes it useless. Time to switch to Google calendar I suppose!
I removed BigSur for this reason and went back to Catalina. It is not too difficult to do if you have your machine backed up on TimeMachine. The Apple support person walked me through it. I sure hope that Apple will correct this problem. Apple, are you listening?
This has got to be one of the first things they fix with the next incremental update. For a second I thought - maybe they're trying to get us to use Siri - but if you get an alert and ask Siri to snooze it, Siri asks which event you'd like to delete.
So not helpful in multiple ways.
I can't believe there's no way to snooze a calendar event for more than the default. This is seriously one of the most frustrating blunders I've ever had to deal with in an Apple update. Serious deal-breaker... back to Catalina I go. Apple Fail.
You can go back to Catalina fairly easily IF you have everything backed up on TimeMachine. I did it immediately because BigSur without a functional calendar was unacceptable for me. You can talk to the Apple support and they will walk you through it. It's probably a good idea to interact just to be as visible as possible about this totally unacceptable change.
Misery loves company. I had tons of trouble loading Big Sur and now I find that I have to completely redo all my calendar notifications. I depended on Calendar notifications for bill payments, etc. I'm going to try to contact Apple at some point to see if there is something they can do to fix this. I'm very disappointed.
I’ve been reading up on this very frustrating issue, and have concluded that this isn’t a bug. I don’t think there’s any intention to fix it-unless enough people complain and it were to impact their long term bottom line. This was known about before release, and it there are a couple of reasons that they found it in their financial self-interest to take away such a useful feature (as small as it is, it was a huge help to me!). Sadly, I’ve slowly seen less “delight” and more disappointment in Apple products over the years. Especially since they could still be very successful without doing this kind of thing that hurts their customers to eke out more dollars.
Anyway, heres how I work around the issue for now. I turn on do not disturb for an hour at a time, and read my notifications when I turn back on. Has actually worked pretty well for me.
Seems that Outlook is better on a PC. My husband loves it on work computer, but I also found that you need a PC for some of the great features. It does look great on his amazing PC display...
I had noticed that the calendar notifications on the iPhone were not 'snoozeable'. I could put up with that because I rely on my iMac. But if i can't rely on the iMac, that is a serious deficiency. I just don't understand the thinking. It's like dumbing down to the lowest denominator.
I've been missing meetings because of this.
Removing the ability to control calendar event notifications has been detrimental to my workflow. I have depended on these notifications and the ability to snooze them "5 min before" for years now. I don't want multiple interruptions to my workflow, which is the only option with Big Sur if you want to ensure that you get reminders for upcoming meetings.
I was so happy to see 11.1. I was sure Apple would correct the dumbest mistake that they have made since the catastrophic touch tone screen in the iPhone 6+ which enriched some class action lawyers. BUT as important as we all know this is, it apparently doesn’t quite register among the Apple engineers.
11.1 is is as uncaring of our screams as was 11.01!
Snooze Calendar Notifications in Big Sur
