Notification center not working on Big Sur

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Notification center not working on Big Sur

I have a 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro (2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7, 16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4) and ever since I installed Big Sur, my Notification Centre does not work. I though it might have been an update error so I waited for a few more updates (the latest one installed being 11.2.3 (20D91)) but still nothing. It works for a brief second when I turn the laptop on or reset it. And then afterwards nothing. When I look at it on the Activity Monitor, it says '(Not responding)'. And then I quit it or force quit it and then it works for <1 min and then it's back to square one.

Anyone have any insight as to what's going on and/or how to fix it?

Thank you in advance!

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.2

Posted on Mar 27, 2021 12:11 PM

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Joseph_S.

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Mar 29, 2021 9:17 AM in response to toivan_

Hello toivan_ and welcome to Apple Support Communities. It appears you are having some difficulty with Notification Center on a Mac. There are a couple of steps that would allow you to isolate the cause of this to something in macOS or something in the user data.

1) Start by doing a safe boot of the Mac. This will clear some cache files, turn off some system extensions and log-in items and give you a good foundation. After doing the safe boot, reboot normally and test.

How to use safe mode on your Mac

2) If the issue persists after a safe boot, set up a new admin user account and boot into that for testing. Doing so helps you to isolate the issue to the system or the user data and ultimately resolve it.

You can find the steps to add a user here:

Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac

Cheers.

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