The new-style Notification Center in macOS Big Sur come with many hidden options that make using your Mac quicker, and more convenient.
Next time you open Notification Center on your Mac, ignore all the useful widgets. Even though they are the most visibly improved part, there’s a reason the feature is called Notification Center.
You still get the regular notifications that you’ve always had of new mail messages, or alerts from other apps, and so on. But macOS Big Sur has introduced new, extra options to most notifications. You just have to find them.
Gaining and losing functionality in Big Sur
Not all of these Big Sur notifications improvements are great, though. Previously in macOS Catalina, if you got a notification of a new mail message, you could click a button to delete it. So with a glance, you’d see what it was, and if you decided you didn’t want it, the delete button was right there.
Since macOS Big Sur came out, you instead get a button marked Options. It isn’t truly a button, either, as it’s really a drop down menu that you have to select before you can find the option to delete the message.
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