Big Sur hanging

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Since upgrading to Big Sur the Notification Center hangs and slows down the whole machine whenever I invoke it (click the clock – stupid action BTW). I have to open Activity Monitor and force-quit the notification center. It seems there is probably a hanging widget; but I don’t know how to get to the controls to turn off widgets without opening the notification – which immediately starts the hang – which has to be force quit – and so on.

Is there a preference or configuration file that controls which widgets appear in the notification center? Something I can delete and remove the current Notification Center configuration?

SOLVED: Safe boot let me get into Notification Center and remove all widgets. Seems to have resolved the hanging.

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Not strictly on topic, but since you solved it, I’ll chime in here to completely agree with you about this.

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I’d rather Click the Clock than have yet another icon in my menu bar.

/dissentingOpinion

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It is necessary for every Mac power user to have a cluttered menu bar. That is just life. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Now that I know what to do, it doesn’t bother me as much. Playing, “How the $%&@#! do I get that notification back??” annoyed me enough to still (mildly) curse at the UI designer(s) who came up with it. For a while I thought that it was swiping on the clock and not clicking it that did the trick :laughing:

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