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
Yes, this is a big deal and needs to be changed. The way it was in Catalina was great. Very frustrating if you are a working professional. Might have to go the Office for Mac, which I have on my Mac as well, but have learned to prefer the Apple separation of applications such as Mail, Reminders, and Calendar. But if they do not make the change, then I will have to go to Office, because it is way to invasive and annoying as it is now.
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Yes, there's always been a way to set multiple alerts in Calendar but I'm sorry to say this is not the point. Alerts could previously be snoozed by simply long-pressing the Snooze button, regardless of the event reminder setting in Calendar. You could set a reminder at 30 min; the alert would you up and you could click Snooze and choose a duration to delay the next alert
I just ran a test with an event set to 5 min, 10 min and 15 min alerts and the Snooze button still doesn't let me choose a duration to snooze.
Your solution would be good for people willing to spend the time to set multiple alters on every single Calendar event they enter, but I'd venture that this is not practical for most of us.
To give you a use case: I typically set all-day events to have alerts at 9:00 AM. I have several of them for every day. The Snooze button allowed me to see at 9:00 AM which those events were, choose to work on the most important/urgent ones (depending on the new day priorities) and snooze the other ones so that I could tackle them later in the day.
...this pretty much made the notifications in the calendar useless. What a shame. Perhaps they will roll out a patch that will bring back the original list of snooze options. In the meantime, all I can suggest is to carefully edit each item (as you enter it, or the repeating ones you have already) so that the notifications pop up at the time periods/intervals you desire.
Considering that it's still possible to set multiple alerts within the Calendar app, I am inclined to think this was either an (egregious) oversight in transitioning the Notifications UI between Catalina and Big Sur, or there was intent to do so and it missed the deadline, in which case I expect to see it finished and reinstated with the next OS update. I can't fathom how this change is otherwise helpful for anyone.
Don't you guys also own an iPhone? THE REASON the notifications changed...is because they are now the same as iOS. My worry is that this trend will continue, dumbing down Mac OS in the process to common up iOS and Mac OS.
The Snooze button does NOT have any options for how long to snooze an alert, despite what their notes say.
This is totally annoying and after a couple of hours of repeatedly snoozing alerts it is driving me mad.
Only option is to delete the alert and set up a new one - even more annoying and frustrating.
The problem is the same on an iMac, MacAir and MacBook Pro.
What has happened at Apple? Aren't they listening? Surely they can get a fix out urgently!!!!! Please!!!!!!!
I know, it's frustrating and disruptive to an organized workflow. I'm so with you on this. Unfortunately, it's probably not as illogical as it seems. IMO there are some very enticing reasons why they'd be tempted to remove a very basic feature that their customers rely on. I listed a few in my earlier reply. I do hope there's the kind of response that gets them to change it. At least the person you spoke with was honest that it isn't a bug. Before the final release of an OS, there are lots of pre-release versions sent out to developers and removing a feature isn't the same as a "bug"- it's a decision. I just post these comments so people don't get their hopes up.
I am just discovering that the snooze options are gone and it totally bums me out. WHY, APPLE? Don't "fix" things that aren't broken! I agree -- this change is ridiculous. Bring back the options, Apple!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not sure that they do professional usability testing now. They had the developer, followed by public betas, but that doesn't guarantee that somebody with a clue about UX was taking a critical look at the interaction of the new system. It certainly doesn't feel that way. it's an extraordinarily poorly designed UI. I had it on a second APFS volume, which I'm really grateful for. It made it really easy to delete without having to lose any of my data or have to go through the process of reinstalling Catalina. I'll be staying on Catalina until I see some significant fixes put in place. There's a good write up on some of the other problems related to notifications - not the problem of snooze options disappearing - that really shows just how poorly thought out the new UI is: https://tyler.io/240-invisible-pixels/
Please provide Apple feedback using their feedback form. Please do it for any of the products you use. It's the only way they'll know what we want changed: https://www.apple.com/feedback/
My understanding of the communities is that Apple staff does not monitor these. They are specifically for users. The only way I know of to get their attention on things is for enough people to send feedback. Link here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/.
Everyone on this thread PLEASE send feedback to get this functionality reinstated. Won't hold my breath, but ya never know.
Rick Fernandez1 wrote:
Two options to consider:
1) Apple no longer reads any of the user input here. As a longtime user, there was a time when Apple would steadfastly delete any comments that were critical or negative toward Apple. I'm shocked that these comments have stayed up as long as they have so perhaps Apple just doesn't read them anymore.
2) Apple does read these comments but doesn't care.
Not sure which is worse.
No, Apple doesn't read the comments here for feedback or suggestions. They never have. This is not a feedback site. It's a user-to-user technical support forum. If you want Apple to know your thoughts, use the correct method:
Apple also doesn't remove posts simply for being critical. Apple removes posts that violate the terms of use. As long as they aren't (excessively) rude or in some other way a violation of the terms to which we all agreed, they will be allowed to stand. This is the way it's been for as long as I've been active in this forum (about 20 years).
Hey guys, I suggest we bombard them with messages at this link:
https://developer.apple.com/contact/topic/SC1102/subtopic/30018/solution/EML/submit
I wrote something like:
Hello,
I would like the development team to consider this issue as many of us have been using professionally the snooze button for years and now it is affecting us greatly.
Link to issue: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252039105
KikaLee wrote:
Please Apple, bring back the long snooze with options..
As has been noted more than once in this thread, this is a user-to-user forum. Apple does not read here for suggestions. If you'd like Apple to know your thoughts, use the feedback page:
Snooze Calendar Notifications in Big Sur
