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
i filled it out, and tweeted at them, and I sent a message to Apple Support on twitter, and all they said was "we hear you, go fill out a feedback/feature request form)
Whoever is on their UI/UX team needs to be talked to
I have Big Sur installed in a separate APFS volume, mostly because of this. When 11.1 came out, I switched the startup disk to Big Sur, ran the update, checked if it was fixed yet - it wasn't, and reset the startup disk back to the Catalina volume. I'm not switching from Catalina as my main OS until either this gets fixed (BRING BACK THE SNOOZE OPTIONS IN THE ALERT APPLE!) or Catalina stops receiving updates. If Catalina stops receiving updates and this isn't fixed, I may need to look into non-Apple products to solve my issue. That may mean leaving MacOS.
For some illogical reason Apple removed this feature in Big Sur. I just conformed this with Apple Support and they said there's no specific plan to replace it.
The best we can do is complain at
If enough of us complain, it might do some good.
Personally, I am furious they removed this great feature and if there is no sign from them that they plan to fix this soon, I'm going back to Catalina.
Here's the link for Big Sur calendar feedback. Make note of it so you can pass it on to others. We need to bombard them with complaints. The snooze function is terrible! Huge step backward!
It seems like Apple recently memory holed the info on the support page about selecting the snooze length. Even after Big Sur was released it said you could snooze for how long you want, after the bug was pointed out they deleted reference to this.
This is another proof that Apple employees, in house must use Microsoft outlook or google calendar. Otherwise, they would have noticed this extremely annoying downgrade to Mac calendar! Shame to see a great company doing downhill by losing their customer-centricity that put them above all others.
I'm having the same problem. Calendar help says it is possible:
Doesn't work for me, though.
Have to agree - the way it currently works is useless. Wish I had not of upgraded to the new OS.
The only way I have found to do it is to go completely into the calendar, bring up the event and then choose it under alerts. Ridiculous.
This! A million times this. This is massively annoying.
I'm not understanding your instructions, especially the "double hairpin". I'm not seeing any such symbol. Could you send a few screen shots?
Thanks for giving it a shot. It had never crossed my mind to use Siri to help. And, yes, I'm as disappointed as you are.
But... Apple spent all that time making the app icons look like iOS icons. /s
This is truly one of the dumbest, most worthless upgrades I've seen. We're going backwards now.
Does anyone from Apple ever acknowledge our complaints here? Or is this just a place for us to gripe about the worst update ever?
how can you go back to an older OS? this is a total deal-breaker for me and I can't keep not getting notifications because they're disappearing into the vapor and I can't pause them for 2 hours...
Snooze Calendar Notifications in Big Sur
