Calendar notification snooze in Big Sur?

Yep. "Daft." "Unacceptable." As has already been said. They seem to remove a very useful feature every new OS release. They'll put it back if enough people complain. That's what they did with the column sorting in Mail that was removed in Catalina. It's back in Big Sur. So for this, you'll just have to wait for the next OS release.

Very few things in life really qualify as stupid, but this one is near the top of stupid things. Did the manager in charge of calendar updates never actually use a calendar on their phone or mac? Wow....And this group must have been on iOS calendar update, as the custom snooze options don't exist there either.

I also am very annoyed by the situation. I called Apple before I read this forum and it is true this is what they consider in “update”. It is beyond foolish. With each new operating system things are supposed to work better, not worse. I’ll never understand why people do the things they do. It doesn’t make any sense at all and it needs to go back to the way it was.

I posted the below on the feedback page. While there's some expected "I don't like the way the new OS works with regard to XYZ" issues in Big Sur, they flat out intentionally disabled this feature and made an app THAT I RELIED ON HEAVILY pretty much useless to me. I'm seriously questioning the logic & reason behind this. It's like "Okay everybody, we have to redesign this toaster... how do we make it really pretty, but also ensure that it doesn't actually toast the bread... so you know... that way nobody wants to use it for its intended purpose."

If you're here with the same gripe pls see link in top answer and give feedback.

Dear Apple,

The new snooze feature in the Big Sur Calendar app is useless if I can't set the duration of the snooze, e.g. 1 hour, 1 day, etc. You may as well just disable snooze altogether as this is counterintuitive to how EVERYONE uses the snooze feature. What was the thought process here? It's up there with making round tires octagonal. Please fix this as soon as possible so I can use calendar alerts instead of some clunky reminders app. As a busy professional (with ADHD now less) the calendars app used to be great tool to keep me on track, now I need to look elsewhere until this is fixed.

Ah okay. Most of my calendar use is on my laptop, not my phone.... so no workaround there (yet) I guess.... I find myself just opening up the item and resetting the alert time, which is a pain but not horrible.

Thanks for the tip but this doesn't work, it's just another way to click "Repeat" (not sure what it actually says in English but this what the German "Wiederholen" translates to), it's pretty useless actually as it does the same as when clicking on the options button. Before, the options let you say "remind me again in 2 hours" or "Remind me again 15 minutes before".

The only workaround I can think of is if anyone is running another older computer with an older OS (in addition to Big Sur). If you snooze on the other computer, or device, then it would update on the newer one. Not great, but slightly less annoying. I did also submit feedback.

EVEN WITH ALL THE UPDATES THEY STILL REFUSE TO GO BACK TO THE OLD WAY. IT'S SO MADDENING. I KNOW NO ONE FROM APPLE REALLY READS THESE COMMENTS, HOWEVER, I'M PRETTY SURE THE ANGER OVER THIS SITUATION HAS FILTERED BACK TO THEM IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER. THEY ARE AWARE. AND STILL REFUSE TO LISTEN TO "THE LITTLE PEOPLE" WHO BUY THIER PRODUCT.

I totally agree with you... that’s SOOOO frustrating !!! Especially because it seems so simple for them to bring it back in Big Sur...

But we have to remain hopeful and continue sending feedbacks and mails.

And I encourage you to post here now: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252039105 as it appears to be the main thread about this issue.

But let's be honest about this workaround. It relies on you knowing in advance how much of a 'snooze' between alerts that you will need AND remembering not to just dismiss the final alert (thinking there's another one coming). The multi-time option snooze was excellent, because I often would only know how long I wanted to snooze for based on what I was doing when the alert popped up. A regular alert could pop up and sometimes snoozing for just a few minutes was ideal, whereas on other occasions, I'd want to snooze for a few hours.

I'm not knocking the idea of temporary workarounds, but let's not let Apple off the hook thinking we'll just work around their crappy decision to remove an important feature from Calendar.

March 10 2021, I recently had may mac updated to Big Sur by the company IT, but they did'n warn us of how much time we would lose in our daily workflow due to the loss or modification of many functions we were used to, including this one ....

Please go to https://www.apple.com/feedback/ and complain.

Hi madshen, I suspect things like the 1 day option will be there, as they were before, because with the old snooze you only got offered options for snooze lengths that would happen 'before' the actual event happened. In the example you shared, the event is 'Today at 10:30 AM' so you cannot snooze it for 1 day, as that would take the snooze past the time of the event itself. Does that make sense?

Hi Phil, as I remember snooze past event time was possible with Catalina and before that. The event could be "Call friend". When it comes up I want to wait but not forget., Here snooze for 1 day comes in handy.

Yes, as I said, 1 and 2 days is missing.

And, why the button is signed "options", so you have to click always twice.

Former behaviour was click = Autosnooze or long click = choices.

And, the duration of autosnooze has to be configurable, because Apple could not know, whats my favourite timegap?!!?

To be honest the snooze options were already quite basic, but at least you could snooze it for an hour a day or a week. I was hoping it would be made more flexible and perhaps choosing when to have the reminder again (calendar and time). Instead, they have removed even the previous basic features!

Congratulations Apple for having created something even more annoying than the infamous Microsofot Paper Clip