Calendar no longer lets me set multiple alerts

Hello Chris Winkler1,

You can use these steps to add alerts to a calendar event:

1. In the Calendar app on your Mac, double-click or force click an event to view event details, then click the event’s time.

2. Click the Alert pop-up menu, then do any of the following:

• Choose a time or day.

• Choose Time to Leave. (This option only applies if you added a location. For information about how time to leave is calculated, see Add a location.)

3. To customize the alert, click the Alert pop-up menu, choose Custom, then choose any of the following:

• Message with sound: Displays a notification on the screen and makes a sound.

• Email: Sends you an email.

• Open file: Opens the file you choose.

4. To add another alert, place the pointer over the Alert pop-up menu, then click the Add button.

*You can set only one alert for Exchange events.

Set alerts for an event in Calendar on Mac

Make note of the last line in the instructions, if you have the Calendar app synced with an exchange email account, you can only set one alert for those items.

Cheers!

Do you own an iPhone which has a built in calendar widget? Can we all agree that buying an iPhone which has a built in calendar widget oughta let ya set up reoccurring events with reminders? Secondary reminders logically don’t occur before initial reminders, yet they do on a the iPhone menu.. Iphone is not user friendly anymore generally. And whomever owns apple products oughta know that the generation that gave iPhone its independence is ****** because of silly things like this along with the fact that selfies aren’t mirror able. Jeve Stobs is rolling over in his inner Earth moon-hut

Oh_hey_hai wrote:

Do you own an iPhone which has a built in calendar widget?

Yes, though I'm not sure what widgets have to do with this question.

Can we all agree that buying an iPhone which has a built in calendar widget oughta let ya set up reoccurring events with reminders?

I can.

Secondary reminders logically don’t occur before initial reminders, yet they do on a the iPhone menu..

How they appear on the menu is irrelevant to when they sound.

Thank you very much...your highlighting the "last line" is what did it for me. Although I had never made any changes to my accounts the exchange was turned on and required a toggling off...and shazammm it worked.

thanks again

Well then why can't I get the option for 1/2 hr before or any relevent alert time option for the same day event appointment .. the choices, no matter what calendar btw are for one week ahead !! on month ahead ! or the same day at 9am!! none of these apply.. I am so frustrated.. I have spend this time talking on this platform and force feed info and use reminder which is another rather glitchy app...just beyond useful

What account is your calendar syncing to? iCloud? Gmail? Yahoo? A work account? Some of the features are provider dependent.

If you're using iCloud for your calendar, you should have that option. It hasn't been removed.

It might be something your IT people can change but, unless it's a small company, I doubt they'd be interested.

not me doesnt matter what calendar

What device are you using?