Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders will migrate to Google Duties quickly
What’s altering
As previously announced, within the coming months, we’ll migrate Reminders from Google Calendar and Google Assistant to Google Duties to create a single expertise for managing to-dos throughout Google.
Customers can create duties from Calendar and utilizing the hands-free energy of Assistant, just like how they beforehand created Reminders. Moreover, not like with Reminders, they’ll create duties from different Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs and Chat, or instantly from the Duties app.
In case you’re a Google Workspace buyer with the Duties service ON in your group, your finish customers can voluntarily migrate starting April 12, 2023. This migration immediate will seem for customers with private accounts beginning on March 6, 2023.
Enterprise finish customers can be prompted emigrate their expertise starting April 12, 2023.
For Google Workspace prospects: Beginning on Might 22, 2023, Assistant and Calendar Reminders will start to routinely migrate to Duties for customers that haven’t already migrated. To assist guarantee a clean transition, we suggest the next steps:
Admins:
In case you use a Google account for work or faculty:
- You’ll see a immediate in Assistant and Calendar to maneuver reminders created in these apps to Duties starting on April 12, 2023.
- If you need a duplicate of your reminders information and Takeout is enabled in your group, export your Reminders data earlier than June 22, 2023.
In case you use Google with a private account:
- You’ll see a immediate in Assistant and Calendar to maneuver reminders created in these apps to Duties starting on March 6, 2023.
- In case you haven’t already migrated, Assistant and Calendar reminders will start to routinely migrate in Q2. We’ll share extra data on this timeline in a future replace on the Workspace Updates weblog.
Why it’s necessary
As soon as the migration is full, you’ll be capable of view and handle all your to-dos in a single place: Duties. You’ll be capable of leverage options in Duties corresponding to organizing to-dos with a number of lists and including descriptions for additional group. Duties might be accessed on the net in Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Chat, making it simple to create duties with out the necessity to swap tabs or apps. In case you use Assistant, you’ll additionally be capable of create Duties instantly from Assistant.
Further particulars
Reminders created in Hold is not going to be migrated to Duties — they’ll nonetheless be accessible in Hold, however they’ll not be displayed in Google Calendar as soon as the migration is full.
Rollout tempo
Google Workspace customers:
- Voluntary migration: Prolonged rollout (probably longer than 15 days for function visibility) starting April 12, 2023
- Computerized migration: Prolonged rollout (probably longer than 15 days for function visibility) starting Might 22, 2023
Customers with private Google Accounts:
- Prolonged rollout (probably longer than 15 days for function visibility) starting March 6, 2023
Availability
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This transformation impacts all Google Workspace prospects, legacy G Suite Fundamental and Enterprise prospects, and customers with private Google accounts.
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