Bank reconciliations require cleared date for all receipts and payments

I am using version 21.5.37 on the desktop version. I find now that the bank reconciliations give an error until all receipts and payments have a cleared date entered even though online entires of both are cleared on the same day as transacted. This is tedious. Is it necessary? We have the option of fast payments going through in a few seconds now in Australia.

Change the form defaults to “cleared”

Thanks. I tried some of that but it still seemed to want the date entered. I will see how it goes next month on that setting.