iOS 13 and Outlook Tasks

I use icloud add-in on Outlook 365 to sync my reminders and tasks. With the iOS13 reminder update, they are no longer accessible on Outlook. I've tried updating the icloud app on windows, but it doesn't appear to help.

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Posted on Sep 20, 2019 5:27 AM

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Posted on Jan 20, 2020 7:31 AM

I still have Outlook 2010 and therefor no outlookßcom-account. But everybody can get one.

So I opened an outlook.com-account, added it to iPad, iPhone and Outlook on my Windows-PC. Downloaded Microsoft To Do on my Apple-devices.

To Do syncs nicely with Reminders (!) and Outlook Tasks on PC. So I can work with Reminders as before and put To Do on the last screen on the Apple devices, just because it is necessary.

With the outlook.com-account there was a new Calendar called outlook.com. You can see it in Calendar on the Apple-devices and in Outlook on the PC. Same with Contacts.

So I copied contacts and calendar-entries into this calendar and ... Heureka!


For my part, I am happy again. Everything works like before and no iCloud needed anymore.


The Outlook-app for iOS is good, but I am used to the generic ones from Apple, so I will not switch at the moment. But I am satisfied that there is a really good alternative in case we will need it in the future.


Thanks again. Without your post I had never been encouraged enough to try this changes.

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Dec 19, 2019 1:05 AM in response to Bumbrlik

Win 10, Outlook 2010, latest iCloud for Windows:


No success either - the tasks are in a folder called "Aufgaben - iCloud", but only on my PC, not on iPhone/iPad, not in iCloud.com ... Aufgaben = Tasks.


(and really a lot of trouble BTW, tasks are twice and thrice, some missing; calender entries twice or missing, contacts duplicates, no one missing ... thanks to God, i had really good backups on my PC of Outlook. So my advice to everybody, who likes to try the solution: Backups, backups, backups ... and not only the usual "outlook.pst", but Tasks für themselves and Calender for itself. I backupped them via export to Excel.)

Jan 19, 2020 4:25 PM in response to Seekon

providing a solution for this problem that they created...

How do you figure this? They updated their OS.


If Microsoft wants their app to be compatible with an iOS update, it's on them to make that happen. The reality is, there are dozens of permutations for Exchange/Outlook/Tasks/Reminders etc.


If you read, iOS 13.3 solved this issue for some users.


How can Apple be expected to make their OS remain compatible with a 3rd party app with every update?

Sep 26, 2019 10:32 PM in response to mitchtaylor

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.

Sep 27, 2019 4:23 PM in response to mitchtaylor

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

Oct 7, 2019 9:02 PM in response to Manoj Kumar Pacha

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.




Oct 10, 2019 4:44 PM in response to eullmann

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.

Oct 23, 2019 10:21 AM in response to mitchtaylor

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.

Nov 1, 2019 3:31 AM in response to Applriec

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.



Nov 1, 2019 6:47 AM in response to Woolybooger

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.

Nov 2, 2019 8:45 AM in response to Bumbrlik

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.

Nov 2, 2019 7:16 PM in response to Martevi

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.

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