Can't select snooze time in ical events

It's a double punch for me since I don't use the iCloud. I turned it off as soon as it was added. But since the iPhone has been like this for as long as I remember I figured it would eventualy make its way to the iCal on the Mac as well. It's always frustrated me on the iPhone why it couln't offer multiple snooze options and the Mac did. That's why I never used it on the iPhone and only used it on the Mac.

I'd suggest we all write some feedback to Apple to make them aware of this feature removal. I'm not sure if they actually follow these conversations here.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

The more people do it, the better the chances are to get the snooze times back some day.

Great idea, Werner!

I recommend everyone in this thread do the same.

Here's the link again, just in case: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html)

And here's a sample submission to copy and paste:

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The new OS is amazing. Mountain Lion is significant improvement over Snow Leopard, and it's obvious.

That said, I am missing one thing from Snow Leopoard, and that is the ability to set the snooze time on my calendar reminders.

I know I am not alone in this desire (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4141605?start=30&tstart=0).

I hope that you can not just return the variable snooze times for ical reminders, but make them better than they've ever been.

Thanks!

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The goal is to get Apple to issue a fix in their first OS update. If enough of us submit feedback, it can happen!!!

Jeremy: Snooze time choices were available with iCal on Lion too. 🙂

I suppose iCloud has the capacity to handle a gazillion notifications. However, Apple could cut down on the number of push notifications they have to send to all of my devices connected to iCloud if they let me choose how long to snooze each Calendar alarm. Doing so would also help me conserve battery life.

Brian: You're absolutely right. I got my OS's mixed up. Meant to say Lion.

Hi.

I just posted a similar complaint before i saw this thread. How do I submit "feedback" to apple on this? is there a page or forum for that? this iCal thing is driving me nuts. thanks!

Never mind. I found the feedback page.

Thanks! I'll add my name to the chorus!

+1

Yet another in a long list of things that weren't broke that Apple 'fixed'.

Apple, give us back the snooze function !

Are you really working on your computer ?

Im brutally disappointed with this 'change' (seems more like a balls-up)

I was already tired of events not being alerted, reminders just disappearing into the ether in iCal and had even been looking into buying Microsoft Outlook as I'd never really had any issues with it in 8 years working in one company. Was told that some bugs had been fixed in the new OS, so upgraded from snow leopard to ML and first thing I notice was - why is there no option for snooze times?

What the ****?!

Here I was hoping they'd maybe go the other way and let us CHOOSE whatever time we needed rather than the vastly limited ]1,5,15,30 mins, 1, 2 hours, 1 day -1 week] thing.

Wow. what a decision.

So am now thinking of uninstalling ML or having to buy outlook anyway. I seriously cannot comprehend the stupidity behind this move.

This is driving me crazy as well. I often set the snooze to varying amounts. Now, I just have to click "snooze" 20 or 30 times before I can dismiss the reminder. BTW, the Reminders app doesn't feature repeating reminders, so I have to use iCal. Apparently they are integrated, but I don't understand how.

Please, Apple, bring back settable snooze time! And by the way, let us set it manually if we want — sometimes I want to snooze something for a day and a half!

Just one other observation... what possible use did Apple have in mind with preserving the snooze button (at all) when all the default alarms are 2 days out? Are we supposed to snooze something 100 times? I know you can change the default alarms to a few preselected times - this too should be however we want it, Apple - but why did Apple even leave the snooze button on the notification if their default is 2 days ahead?

... just hoping that they'll catch up to this and fix it in the .2 release. I did see something about working on reminders as part of the .2 patches. Hopefully, that will force a discussion about snooze times. Just can't imagine that the Apple employed developers themselves haven't moved this to the top of the list.

Just want to add another voice to the chorus. Reminders are significantly less usefull on OSX now that you can't snooze them for a day or two. I used that feature all the time.

Me, too. I need this feature to come back, please!

This is a total pain -- the default snooze appears to be five minutes, but often I need more or less. They've GOT to fix this. And by the way, does anyone at Apple even read these posts??