Similar to this post, but in my case it's for the Samsung Calendar app.
I have recurring events that used to generate persistent top-of-the-screen notifications.
E.g. 'every Thursday, from 11 to 12 - do X and Y, reminder on time (i.e. at 11)'.
--> every Thursday a notification would appear at 11, and stay there permanently, only disappearing when I manually dismissed it.
No longer the case: now the notification appears but then disappears as soon as the event 'end time' is reached (in this example, at 12).
That means that if I don't look at my phone exactly between 11 and 12, I will miss the notification and probably not do X and Y.
[Not a theory, BTW, e.g. I forgot to put in a tax payment; luckily I was reminded by someone.]
I looked this up on the web, of course, and I found a few similar cases, but no actual solutions, only complicated and cumbersome workarounds (hence my asking here).
To be clear, my goal here is to understand if there are any settings I can change to make the notifications behave like they used to.
Stopping using Samsung Calendar would not be an option.
Any ideas? Suggestions?
PS, for clarity:
- I know I can make events last longer so the notification does not disappear after 1 h, but how long should they be? Days? Weeks? The whole point of having persistent notifications is to have them shown to you as reminders of an action that is due; and then you take that action in your own time. Any fixed persistence time can cause you to not take the action and then forget.
- I know I can make tasks in Samsung Calendar (which are indeed like reminders of things to do, with no specified duration) instead of events (which require a fixed start and end time), but 1) I used events before because they worked, so now I have a long list of them, synced everywhere; 2) Samsung tasks cannot be set as recurring, and that's the whole point of most of my reminders (things that I need to do at specific intervals in time).
- I know there are other apps that handle calendars, like Google Calendar, but 1) in my search for solutions I actually found several posts complaining about the exact same issue with that one; 2) as explained, I have a lot of Samsung Calendar events already made, which I wouldn't really fancy rewriting into another app; 3) I have already set up my Samsung account to back up my calendars and other stuff, which I would no longer benefit from if I did that.
