Why can I no longer reply from Messages notifications in macOS Big Sur

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I have recently upgraded to macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 from Catalina 10.15.7.

Now, when I receive a Message, I get the notification but I no longer reply through it. This used to work in Catalina.

I found no useful options in System Preferences > Notifications nor in Messages > Preferences.

Any idea why this is happening and/or what I could do to solve this?
It's a very important feature for my everyday workflow at the Mac.

Best Answer

You can reply, it's just not intuitive. When you receive the notification, click the dropdown option to expand/show more and it will give you a text field which you can type in.

I've filed this in Apple's bug-report system as FB8619443