Take Control of Big Sur

Manage Notifications

For a number of years, Mac users have been accustomed to clicking the Notifications icon on the menu bar to display a slide-in view called Notification Center. Big Sur completely revamps this concept.

Display Notification Center

To show the new and improved Notification Center, click the time in your menu bar. You’ll see something like Figure 35.

Figure 35: The new Notification Center is much spiffier than before.

Before I get to what’s actually in Notification Center, I should expand on that whole “click the time” thing. ...