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Comment by LeoPanthera

17 hours ago

Whether appointments have an alert by default or not is a setting in the Calendar app.

Oh wow. Confirmed!

However, can you please explain to me the use case of "Siri, create an appointment at 3PM tomorrow" - where I would want no alert, at time of event, at the very least? I am pretty good at imagining edge cases, and I cannot imagine even one.

I have never been more upset at a default setting. I want to name and shame, and worse. Who made this call, a hippo? Think of the lost productivity at scale. "It just works UX" was supposed to be the entire point of Apple.

  • I would imagine a majority of office workers create appointments with no alerts. They're looking at their calendar all day.

    That's only speculation, but that's why it's a setting. You can have it either way.

    • I would entertain this explanation, if actual office productivity calendars like Gmail and Outlook did not only have at time of event alert defaults, but also 10 mins prior by default. You know, like something actually useful.

      Sorry, I have been spinning out on this for a while. I might be ridiculously upset about this. But, remember what Jobs said about boot times at scale?[0] Well...

      [0] https://www.folklore.org/Saving_Lives.html