iOS 13 and Outlook Tasks

What an INCONVENIENCE! I rely on my Tasks in Outlook to sync with iCloud.. and this replacement of "Tasks" with "Reminders" really causes a huge problem for me. I did find this link in my "Reminders" section where Tasks used to be (now all gone), and it has this link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210220. At the bottom of it, it says: "You can't see iCloud reminders in the iCloud for Windows app."

People won't naturally buy a new Apple computer to fix this, I think I will look for another solution because I'm not ready to buy an Apple computer, though I have an iPhone, an Ipad, but the software I need does not come in OS.

Apple.. Please do something..

I completely agree. Apple, in my opinion, you need to fix this. Don't ask me to stop doing something that has worked for me for years, because you took away a simple syncing function. I'm going to assume you must have known or should have know about this when you developed IOS 13. Thank goodness calendar and contacts still sync, but please fix this task/reminder issue right away.

I am having the exact same problem. This is very frustrating as I use the i-cloud add-in on Outlook 365. Apple needs to fix this asap as I use reminders to help manage my teams and my business. If they don't fix this, then I am certain a new (non-Apple) phone will.

Same here. iOS13+icloud+Outlook2016. This made my business and private tasks available for me on every device I have. Until iOS13. Now I am supposed to keep a web-browser open on my work computers desktop in order to be able to see my task list? This wont last longer than a couple of days. Then I will have a solution. And this won't be buying an Apple computer.

Please do something urgently. My work environment wont switch to MAC just because of Apples decision to not sync tasks anymore. And the change is surely no helper in wanting a next iPhone as it doesn't interact with my everyday devices in a convenient way anymore.

Same here. Spoke to Apple support who confirmed it is an issue with the new reminders in IOS 13. The tech said I have to wait until there is an update and could not confirm whether it is an IOS update, an icloud for windows update or a windows update.

Same problem here. This is on top of some of the other hastily fixed bugs in IOS13. Come on Apple, Steve Jobs would be turning in his grave right now when he sees how standards have slipped. I am certainly now no longer going to upgrade any of my devices to an Apple, time to move on.

What happened to the key tenets (that are now definitely no longer the case) of: simplicity, intuitive, limited number of hardware models, it just works etc etc etc. Some arses need kicking methinks

Sooooo, I have been on the phone with Apple Support several times this week. At this point... no fix other than, "the problem has been escalated to the engineers and they are working on something." I will say that Apple Support has been calling back to give updates, which is nice, but what would be nicer would be a fix. I use Tasks almost religiously to keep up with the 10 members of my team, not to mention my family.

On another note... Apple Reminders just flat out stinks. I don't know why they ever changed it from the first generation of reminders. I thought the new iOS13 revamp of reminders might offer something more user friendly, but it still stinks. No way to sort tasks by separate lists to see just a day view, or swipe to go to tomorrows tasks or anything like that. I have been using GoodTask for my task management app, and used to us TaskTask. Both are good... however, you would think Apple could come out with a Reminders app that would be halfway useful. My vote would be to re-introduce the original Reminders app that Apple offered years ago as a download on the app store. I would bet that by the amount of downloads of that app they receive they would realize how far they have drifted from their original simplicity.

Apple is still working on the problem. I was on the phone with them last night for over an hour (they called me). The good news is that I do feel like they are working on it. The bad news is that I question how high on the priority list it is for their "engineers." Not sure what the issues are but it sure is annoying. This seems like it should run so seamless and be so easy given what all our phones do today. In my opinion Apple is loosing their focus on what the device is and should be (communication) vs. having a bunch of bells and whistles.

This is certainly a little remiss of Apple; certainly, their iCloud software for Windows (v 7.13 or 10.6.1.26) still refer to tasks not

reminders – so I hope this is not going the same way as Notes when that was dropped from Outlook integration a few years ago. 

I suspect there are rather more Outlook users than there are Apple mail users and not just in the business world either, so

it would be a pitiful commission by Apple if they ignore this integration issue as it’s seriously aggravating! Indeed,  Apple probably ought to look at bring back Notes integration for Outlook…

... come along Apple!

I am adding my voice for encouraging Apple to solve this problem.

I had to go to uninstalling and reinstalling iCloud for Windows (which cause instability on my PC : blue screen..) to finally suspect iOS 13 and discover this thread.

Frustrating and unproductive !

All other improvements involved in iOS 13 are very interesting, but this incompatibility spoil the good news.

I do not know if you can export the reminders from iCloud's website. But here is what I did. For many years I have used an add in for my Outlook calendar called gsyncit. It allows me to sync my Outlook Calendar to my gmail calendar. By choosing the gmail calendar on my iPhone, my outlook calendar and any changes I make to it show up in the iPhone calendar app.

I experimented with using gsyncit to transfer my Outlook tasks to Google tasks but it does not allow for appearing in the Reminders App. However, you can install the Google tasks app on your iPhone. If you set up gsyncit to sync your Outlook tasks to Google tasks and you install the Google task app to your iPhone, your reminders will be both on your Outlook and in the Google tasks app. Then you use the Google task app instead of Reminders.

It is only a work around because you still have to manually imput your reminders from iCloud into Outlook tasks so it will sync with Google tasks.

I started using Microsoft To Do and I am very happy with the app (stopped using Reminders). It is syncing with Outlook much better than iCloud ever did.

Reminders does not have an export function, but I found that by using an iPad with split screen I can drag the tasks from Reminders to MS To Do and save some time in the migration process.

You need to have a Microsoft account with the MS Exchange sync. function to Outlook.

Still nothing from Apple. I have called and for a while they were good about responding and making me feel like they were working on this. Now they have gone radio silent... as if the problem doesn’t exist. This is terrible Apple!!! You would think that you would make sure everything with the new software update would interface properly with something as widely used as Outlook. C’mon... I like Apple products but it doesn’t mean they are the end all be all. I will buy a new phone before i ditch outlook.

I made the change this week to Office 365 simply so I could get my tasks back into Outlook. Hopefully you have a backup of your tasks in a PST format so you can easily do this. I couldn't be happier--the process was pretty easy and everything and the tasks are now syncing between all my Windows devices and my iPhone (you have to download an app on your iPhone called Microsoft Tasks). I actually like it better because I can sort the tasks on the iPhone alphabetically, something I couldn't do before using the native Tasks ios app. I am still using iCloud to sync my calendar and contacts. Hopefully Apple won't strip that from us in later ios releases.