What’s changing
In September 2022, we announced that we would be migrating Reminders from Google Calendar and Google Assistant to Google Tasks in order to create a single experience for managing to-dos across Google. Over the last several weeks, Google Workspace users had the opportunity to voluntarily migrate their reminders to Tasks.
For Google Workspace users: If you have not already migrated your Reminders to Tasks, they will be migrated starting today.
To help ensure a smooth transition, we’d like to remind admins and end users to:
Admins:
- Verify that the Tasks service is ON for your organization. If the Tasks service is OFF, any Reminders data will not be migrated to Tasks, and Reminders data deletion will be initiated after June 22, 2023.
- Enable your organization to use Google Takeout, in case your users want to export their Assistant and Calendar Reminders.
- If your end users want to use Assistant to manage tasks after the migration, you need to adjust settings for Search and Assistant users and turn on access to Workspace data.
- If you want a copy of your reminders data and Takeout is enabled for your organization, export your Reminders data before June 22, 2023.
- If you haven’t already migrated, Assistant and Calendar reminders will begin to automatically migrate in June 2023. We’ll share more information on this timeline in a future update on the Workspace Updates blog.
Availability
- This update impacts all Google Workspace Customers
Resources
- Google Help: Learn more about the switch from Google Reminders to Google Tasks
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn Tasks on or off for users
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Export your organization's data
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn Search and Assistant on or off for users
- Google Help: How to download your Google data
- Google Workspace Updates Blog: Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders will migrate to Google Tasks soon