iOS 13 and Outlook Tasks

First NOTES stopped syncing, now TASKS.. What will be next? I am losing all faith in APPLE and it looks like ANDROID will be the next direction for everyone in our family and our business. It seems to seamlessly sync with all other Google applications and supported devices. The icloud/Outlook integration worked perfectly until Apple upgraded to IOS 13. What was the point of eliminating this well integrated syncing and to add insult to injury APPLE deleted it from Outlook. Since when can APPLE delete data from another program that isn't theirs? Outlook is our primary data source that we chose to integrate with APPLE so that it was on all the devices and now APPLE wiped Outlook data (tasks) clean. That is theft of property in my opinion.

Along with tasks disappearing, I've also noticed my iCloud contacts are no longer available to choose from when composing an email. The contacts are there in the contacts window; however, cannot access them during the composition of a message.

No kidding... emojis... really? Let's get serious Apple! Your market isn't the teenagers with their Instagram and the Snapchat. The people who are flipping your bill are the one's out there working and using your devices to operate their business. Couldn't agree more with Applriec... let's get back to work. Your devices worked before, now all the sudden they don't work with the most widely used calendar, task, email platform in the world... Microsoft Outlook. You can design new emoji's and add all the other bells and whistles when you have your devices working seamlessly.

Apple, who gave you the authority to delete all the data from Outlook tasks in your upgrade? Outlook tasks were working perfectly for most of us long before you started selling iphones and other devices. Data in that program has existed in some cases for 20 years and was the backbone of efficiency for those of us that relied on it. It is not your program and therefore you have no right deleting all of its data. If you want to divorce yourself from it, that is your privilege (as you did with Outlook Notes) but deleting the data from the program is crippling to all of us that were so dependent on it. Stop trying to look pretty and go back to efficiency. Steve Jobs wanted us to have that which we did not know we needed. You are now robbing us of that which we need.

My small real estate business relied heavily on Outlook Tasks and iPhone Reminders. Dates for closings, anniversaries, conditions of agreements, reminders to touch base, etc., (about 40 tasks per real estate file extending out 7 years). They’re all gone.

My Contacts are still there. Within Contacts there is the provision for “add related name”. This is where I keep/kept track of spouse, partner, children’s names and gender, etc. All but the first related name are gone. I never kept track of related names in Outlook. While I cannot say with certainty when they disappeared I can tell you they remained through many iOS upgrades. With iOS 13 they are gone.

You are correct, they are gone. Again, data that was entered into Contacts for years (and in many cases long before the iPhone or ipad were even around) has been deleted by Apple on a program that isn't theirs. Apple thinks they own the universe when it comes to other people's data. I repeat a comment I made in another post, if Apple does not want to sync with another program, that is their prerogative BUT that does not give them the right to delete the data from the other program. Apple, please return our Tasks and full Contact data.

Apple just update iCloud for Windows. I was hopeful the Outlook Tasks and iOS Reminders sync issue would be resolved. It is NOT! I noticed something interesting however when I signed out of iCloud for Windows and signed back in. Outlook Tasks data appears to go to the Cloud. The data must still be somewhere; just not in Reminders. Anybody else have thoughts on this?

What I don’t understand is from a programming perspective this cannot be difficult to resolve. Therefore Apple programmers must personally lack the resolve. Why?

iOS 13.2 out - no change to reminders problem! I also experience shorter battery life and phone is getting hot (iPhone X) since so called "upgrade", which really is a downgrade! Not good at all Apple!

I'm adding my voice to this issue. I've synced tasks, calendar, and contacts since they invented iCloud for Windows. I now use Outlook 2016 for everything email, calendar and tasks, but since that last update tasks won't sync with Outlook anymore. They better fix soon, or my next phone will not be an iphone.

Exact same thing! So frustrating! And seeing that there have been posts since late September, and it's now early December, I'm not optimistic about an update to iCloud for Windows. I appreciate all things Apple, and have an iPad Pro, a new iPhone, an iMac, MacBook Pro, and just got an Apple watch, but have to use a PC for work. Up until now they have been playing nice, but for Apple to make this change to syncing functionality sours me toward the brand. A total overreach to make people who use PCs frustrated. Please Apple, address this ASAP...or at least say that you are working towards a new update to iCloud for windows that will restore syncing. To simply say, "You can't see iCloud reminders in Outlook when using iCloud for Windows on your PC" is unacceptable. It probably won't be long until future updates to iOS remove contacts and calendars from syncing too. Maybe I'll need to follow my millennial son and move away from Apple. My Apple watch is still in an unopened box...

I installed iOS 13.3, reinstalled iCloud and there you are, everything is back and working! I am running Office 365 for business and installed the iCloud App from the MS store. Thank you, everything is working as pre-iOS 13!

Robert_Wright wrote:

Apple: Can you confirm this is true? If so, please specify the steps necessary to activate the syncing process again.

This is a user-to-user forum. Apple isn't going to confirm anything here.

I'm a user. My Outlook tasks are syncing to my iPhone again. I didn't have to do anything. But, try deleting your Outlook account in Settings>Passwords & Accounts and adding it back.

I'm also a user and confirm this works in perfectly in Outlook in O365 for Outlook tasks - but do make sure that you switch on "Reminders" in Settings>Passwords & Accounts under your Outlook Account.

However, somewhat bizarley it doesn't work in iCloud inO365 - so those will not get copied back to your PC in O365 - and the iCloud task folder in 0365 will have a hazard warning sign next to it....!!!

Best solution then is to do everthing in O365 Outlook tasks and ignore iCloud! (nearly there Apple!)

Afraid it didn't work for me either. Running MS Office 365 Business on a Surface Pro. Deleted iCloud data file from Outlook, then deleted iCloud App Restarted and retrieved new app from MS Store. So frustrating. It worked perfectly for months!