Where Did My Google Calendar Reminders Go? (They Moved to Tasks)
If your old reminders disappeared from Google Calendar and you can’t figure out where they went, you’re not imagining it and you didn’t delete them. Google moved them. Reminders now live in Google Tasks, and the switch quietly broke a few things people relied on.
Here’s what changed, what stopped working, and how to keep reminders from slipping through the cracks.
What changed
Through late 2025 — rolling out around October 2025 — Google consolidated reminders into a single home: Google Tasks. Reminders that used to live separately in Google Calendar, Google Assistant, and Google Keep were migrated into Tasks, as 9to5Google reported and as covered in this WebProNews writeup.
What this means in practice:
- Reminders aren’t a separate Calendar feature anymore. Where you used to create a “Reminder” inside Calendar, you’re now steered toward a Task. The old standalone reminders got swept into Tasks.
- Location-based reminders stopped working. “Remind me when I get home” / “when I arrive at the office” style reminders, which Assistant and Keep used to handle, no longer function the way they did.
- Notification behavior changed. How and when reminder alerts fire shifted with the move, so some people stopped getting nudges they expected.
- Old reminders got hard to find. Because they were relocated rather than left in place, plenty of users opened Calendar, saw nothing, and assumed their reminders were gone.
The upside of one unified system is that you’re no longer juggling three overlapping reminder buckets. The downside is that anything tied to the old behavior — especially location triggers — had to change, and the migration wasn’t obvious while it was happening.
So where are my reminders now?
In Google Tasks. Your migrated reminders should appear in the Tasks list, which you can reach from the side panel in Gmail and Google Calendar on the web, or in the Google Tasks mobile app. If a reminder had a date or time, it generally shows up as a task with that due date, and dated tasks still surface on your calendar.
What won’t come back as-is are the location-based reminders — those didn’t have a true equivalent in Tasks, so if you depended on them you’ll need a different approach.
How to keep reminders from slipping through the cracks
If the move scattered your reminders or you just want something that nudges you reliably without thinking about which Google app owns it, the simplest fix is to stop managing reminders inside a calendar app at all and hand them to an assistant.
Carly is an AI executive assistant that works over text and email — which is a strong fit for reminders specifically, because you capture them the moment you think of them:
- Text Carly a reminder and it tracks it. “Remind me to send the contract Thursday” goes in as a task with a due date, no app-switching.
- It blocks time on your calendar to actually do it. Beyond a notification, Carly can time-block the task so the work has a slot, not just an alert.
- Daily briefings surface what’s due. Carly can email or text you a rundown each day, so reminders show up in front of you instead of waiting to be checked.
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If you’d rather stay inside Google’s ecosystem, our guide to Google Tasks vs Todoist compares the now-default reminders home against the most common alternative, and we have a walkthrough on how to set reminders in Google Calendar for the way it works today.
FAQ
Where did my Google Calendar reminders go? Into Google Tasks. In late 2025 Google migrated reminders out of Calendar, Assistant, and Keep and consolidated them in Tasks, so your old reminders should appear in your Tasks list rather than as standalone Calendar reminders.
Why can’t I create a reminder in Google Calendar like before? Because Google replaced the standalone reminders feature with Tasks. When you go to add a reminder, you’re now guided toward creating a Task, which still shows on your calendar if it has a date.
Why did my location-based reminders stop working? Location-based reminders (“remind me when I get home”) didn’t carry over in the move to Tasks. That trigger type was effectively dropped, so those reminders no longer fire.
Are my old reminders deleted? Generally no — most were migrated rather than removed. Check the Google Tasks list (in the Gmail or Calendar side panel, or the Tasks app). Location-based reminders are the main exception that didn’t survive the move.
How can I set reminders that reliably notify me now? Use a tool built around capture-and-remind. Carly lets you text a reminder, tracks it as a task, time-blocks it on your calendar, and surfaces it in a daily briefing — so it doesn’t matter which Google app technically owns the reminder.
More on this: How to set reminders in Google Calendar · Google Tasks vs Todoist
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