Calendar notification snooze in Big Sur?

It is a headache but there is a way ... not all intuitive, though. On the notification, hover the cursor/arrow above the Options button. The date will change to a >. Click on the >. Snooze options will pop up.

That said ... one of the things that has kept me as a Mac user for 30+ years is the intuitive interface. I know Apple can do better with this feature.

I just spoke with an Apple Tech and he confirmed that the option for various Snooze Times, with the Calendar Notifications, in not available in Big Sur. He entered a request for me at https://www.apple.com/feedback/ to have the option reinstalled in an update.

That is the best way to let Apple know we do use that feature and would like to have it back.

So, go to a https://www.apple.com/feedback/ and register your request.

Sorry, my bad -- the > appears when you hover over it. You have to click on it once it appears to get the options. Very annoying. I use notifications often, too, and when I made the big leap from Yosemite to Big Sur a few weeks ago it was one of the things I found most frustrating.

Just to make it more annoying, when I pulled over my old files, it also pulled over some outdated notifications that keep coming back (over and over and over ... ) even if I click Complete. I have no idea how to clear out the bad notifications while keeping the good -- the outdated ones aren't even on my Calendar or Reminders! Yosemite lets me end them but Big Sur just cannot believe I really mean it when I click Complete.

It's back! Just installed Big Sur 11.3, and the snooze options are back!

Great news!

In the new version macOS 11.3 (of Big Sur), the feature is back!

Seems like they listened! :) Great work everyone!

Happy snoozing ;)

I switched to BusyCal to get around this issue on both the iPhone and the Mac. Fantastical supports a very flexible snooze, but it's subscription based.

My god, it's working again in latest release Big Sur 11.3 - who ever thought something so simple could have daily cause so much grief! LOL IT'S WORKING!!!

I ended up buying BusyCal and it is WONDERFUL. It's $50 (or $5 for your iOS device - you'll want both) and worth every penny. I then immediately removed Apple's Calendar and Reminders from my Dock and turned off all their notifications.

This was such a big deal for me (attention: Apple) that I came very, very close to dumping my Mac entirely and going to a Surface Pro with Windows. I've been a Mac user for many years, but nonsense like this (along with my MacBook Pro keyboard that still doesn't work properly) keeps me perilously close to calling it quits. I remember the good ole' days when Apple products were expensive, but actually worked. Now they're just..... well.... expensive.

Doesn't take you to any more snooze 'options'. When you hover, yes the ">" appears, but all it does is open a drop down which shows you the calendar day or takes you directly to the iCal application. There are no options as before in last OS's, to actually *choose* various Snooze options, like, remind in in 5 minutes, an hour, a day, whatever. This is an extreme oversight on Apple's part. One of the most used functions I use daily. :-(

It was a terrible decision to remove the ability to choose a snooze duration. Bring it back, Apple!

I found a really good third party calendar app that let's you set any snooze duration you want. It's called BusyCal. But it's pretty expensive at $50.

I, too, have submitted feedback requesting a restoration of the variable snooze time. I encourage everyone to submit such feedback. Like someone else, I wasn't sure whether to post it as a "bug" or "feature request" or some other type of report, but "bug" seemed like it might be best.

In the past, I've often set multiple alerts. For instance, if I have a dental appointment in 6 months, I set one alert for one week before, one for one day before, one for 15 hours before, and one for 2 hours before. In the past, I've always just snoozed for an appropriate time, never just dismissing the alert. But maybe this is a workaround for our problem: set up the multiple alerts. Then, when the first one appears, let's say it's the "one week out" alert, I dismiss it. Will the "one day out" alert appear one day out? I'll try that and if it works, I'll repost this potential workaround.

Snooze options will come back in 11.3 Unfortunately snooze for "1 day" is missing. I used that a lot before.

THERE IS A REASONABLE WORKAROUND in that you can set your notifications to Do Not Disturb for an hour, "until this evening," until tomorrow, etc. using the half moon icon in the menu bar. Best I have been able to do. It won't allow you to turn something off for a day or two or two hours or until a week before or whatever, but it will keep the stuff out of your work flow and off your screen for the time being. Not the best, not the worst.

Just know this! Continuing to post about this in this forum or any forum will do no good.

You MUST go to the feedback page and the more they hear, the better chance that they will respond. Honestly, it baffles my mind that they haven't fixed this yet.

https://www.apple.com/feedback/calendar.html

This is beyond annoying and typical of the current Apple path... iOSification of macOS

I solved this issue quite easily. I deactivated notifications for macOS Calendar then setup in Outlook. Got the feature back and happy.