You Can Now Snooze Desktop Notifications in Google Calendar

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You Can Now Snooze Desktop Notifications in Google Calendar

For the time being, you can only snooze notifications in Google's own Chrome browsers. Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite, has announced that its customers can now snooze notifications for upcoming Calendar events directly from the desktop notification.

Never Miss Meetings Again

"You can now snooze Google Calendar desktop notifications directly from the notification itself," according to the official announcement on the . This is currently unsupported in the consumer version of Calendar. "This should make it less likely that you miss meetings or show up late," Google added. Available to all Google Workspace, G Suite Basic, and Business customers, the new feature is a staggered release that may take up to three days to roll out to all customers. By default, snoozed notifications will reappear one minute before the scheduled meeting. You can also 're-snooze' a notification for an additional five minutes as many times you’d like, until the meeting ends. To adjust snooze time, follow the instructions in a support document on . In the coming weeks, Google plans to show a new popup to customers who have enabled Calendar desktop notifications to inform them about the new feature. "Now you can snooze desktop notifications until just before your event begins," the prompt reads. Google is hoping that this new feature may convince more Workspace customers to enable Calendar notifications on the desktop. While you could previously dismiss a Calendar notification, you had to manually postpone an event until later in Google Calendar.

How to Snooze Google Calendar Notifications

When you see a Calendar notification for an upcoming event, simply click Snooze within the notification or Settings if you'd like to change your Calendar snooze timing. The feature requires that desktop notifications for Calendar be turned on. You must leave Google Calendar open in a Chrome tab to see desktop notifications. Also important, snoozing from the Calendar notification currently only works in the Chrome browser.