Notification banners won't go away on MacBook Air

try switching them from alerts to banners.

Apple. Please admit this is a problem and a real annoyance. If you cant fix it immediately just say so don't pretend it does not exist.

I have a 2020 MBPro 13" running Big Sur 11.5. The banners not only won't go away, there is no 'X' to clear them. They just stay there till the Mac is rebooted. Anyone else having this???

Maybe they are using surface pro or other windows os based system where the users have full control on notifications... I’m disappointed Apple UX designers / UX architects don’t understand basics from end users’ experience design guidelines - minimise unnecessary gui interactions, don’t disturb, etc.

This response really doesn't help. We want notifications, but we don't want them to stay forever. They're supposed to dismiss after a certain amount of time.

About 10% of my notifications stay up there until I press the tiny X. It's super annoying.

That most definitely was not the case previously. However I think you are right in as much as Apple seem finally to have sorted banners out. I did have multiple crashes a couple of weeks ago with Big Sur, none since 11.2.3 so maybe, just maybe , they've got most of the bugs out - just in time to give us beta version of MacOs12 with a whole new set of bugs 😜

Hope, Apple fix this issue soon. The real problem is that Notification banners cover the other applications that's we need to click on since it floats on the top of the any other apps. Every-time I've to close notification before clicking new tab or close the recent tab in safari.

I have the same issue, very annoying, every time I unlock MacBook it shows alerts that stay all the time until I close them. Setting all to Banners in Notifications doesn't help, this alerts are "No backups for ...", "Updates available". Apple as always, every new update just makes things worse, I'll try to roll back to Catalina.

By clicking on the notification the little X appears so that part is overcommable but the fact that some appear and stay is not. Specially work some ones they remain whatever they setting.

One of the things most frustrating with Apple and other tech firms is they never acknowledge issues. A statement just saying "we recognise this could have been better and will address it"even if they can't commit to a timetable would be a little comfort

Make sure the notifications are set to Banner rather than Alert. If you did any system updates recently maybe preferences got changed accidentally.

Stranger things than that have happened due to system updates.

I'm having this issue too, except there is no tiny x to click on. I have 2 banner notifications, one a missed call (Potential Spam), and the other is a call I answered on my iPhone. NOTHING will make them go away. I deleted them from my phone, I've clicked on them, double clicked on them, swiped them in every direction, and they won't go away. I had to swipe my safari page to the left so that I can close the pages that are covered by the notifications. I also can't open new safari pages without having my safari screen squished to the left. ALL my notifications are set to banner, and I have even tried turning off notifications for FaceTime, but I can't get rid of them!!

Since I've upgraded to Big Sur I've been strongly annoyed by notifications. I work in a big corporation so I get new notifications every minute. I'm so busy that until today I didn't have time to figure out why notifications have been so annoying.

Please solve this the way Apple has always solved our issues:

1) Listen to our feedback.

2) Provide a workaround, a way to go back to the previous behavior by modifying a property using the terminal.

3) Add the choice in the UI in the next update.

Thanks,

Carolina

Apple user since 2003

Another issue is that you have to dismiss them one by one. Before you were able to dismiss the whole bunch, but now you have to hide them one by one.

I just changed some of my alerts to banners, hopefully that will help. Unfortunately there are some I can't change because my company has locked them in alert mode.

So until you fix this and allow us to have the previous behavior (Catalina), it will still be annoying.

I keep getting an alert about USB being disabled (it's not, it's still working), and despite clicking the "x" to close it, it continues to show up. As a neurologically divergent person I find this distracts me and breaks my concentration, and once the flow is broken, it's hard to get back. It also shows when presenting. This happens multiple times a day and is increasingly annoying.

Please, Apple, be the change you want to see and make our lives easier. Allow us to say "please don't tell me this again" on alerts.

Exactly. Very distracting having them hanging around.