Macs have sounded the same since the George W. The brand-new sound effects aren’t as important, but they’re definitely more surprising. That new sound you’re looking forīig Sur’s new look is immediately noticeable, but at least it’s in your face about it. Right-click widgets once they’re placed to resize them or customize them (when they can be customized). Click the green plus button on a widget or drag it over to the right side of the screen to add it to the Notification Center, where you can then subtract and rearrange widgets as needed. For widgets with multiple size options, click the S-M-L buttons to preview them. Scroll to the bottom of the Notification Center and hit Edit Widgets to pull up the full-screen widget-picking interface. But third-party developers can make their own to extend the operating system’s capabilities and fill in gaps. The operating systems don’t come with the same complement of standard widgets (macOS gets a clock iOS doesn’t have iOS has an Apple News widget macOS doesn’t have). ![]() It’s not just that they look the same-it’s that, through a combination of Catalyst and Apple’s WidgetKit framework, they are literally the same widgets. If Big Sur’s new widgets look familiar to you, it might be because many of them are the same ones you get when you upgrade to iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. ![]() This won’t be an issue for notifications without built-in response options, but it’s annoying for the notifications that have them. So if I just wanted to mark a reminder as complete, I have to wait the extra beat it takes for the Options button to appear, click the button, and then click Complete, rather than just clicking the Complete button directly. In Big Sur, both the Complete button and all of those timing options are grouped together under one Options button, and you need to hover over the notification to see that button in the first place. In Catalina, you could click the notification to open the app, click the Complete button directly to check the task off without opening the app, hit the Later button to get a short list of options about when you wanted to be reminded, or click the X in the upper-left corner to dismiss the notification without doing anything. Take a notification from Reminders, for instance. Notifications are now grouped based on the app that sent them and are displayed at the top of the Notification Center above your widgets if you’ve got active notifications already showing on your desktop, the Notification Center and everything in it will slide in seamlessly underneath them.Īs much as I like the new design of the Notification Center overall, interacting with notifications themselves has been made more annoying by Big Sur’s tendency to hide things. For starters, the two separate tabs for the notification view and the Today View have been eliminated, and the Do Not Disturb and Night Shift controls are gone, too (they’re now safely ensconced in the Control Center, which is a more logical place for them). I don’t use the feature super often, and I find myself mildly annoyed by it when I do.Īs with the Menu Bar, Big Sur does a decent job of cleaning up and unifying the Notification Center, making it more visually appealing and a bit more useful at a glance. Active notifications, like Reminders you really, really don’t want to dismiss until you’ve actually taken care of the things they’re reminding you of, dangle off to the side of the main Notification Center pane. Or hit the Today View tab and see an iOS-ish list of situationally helpful widgets that hide your notifications. Scroll up, and you reveal previously hidden toggles for Do Not Disturb and Night Shift modes. Swipe over or click the button to view the Notification Center, which by default shows you a giant ungrouped list of every single notification you’ve gotten from any app in the past week. ![]() Speaking of cleaning things up, let’s talk about the messiness of the Notification Center in Catalina.
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