An APK teardown of a recent app update is now illuminating some more particulars about these upcoming transitions.
Google Calendar v2022.26.x has a few new text strings that appear to be in accordance with the transition of Reminders to Tasks. A migration card with the text “Soon your reminders will be upgraded to tasks” confirms the fact that this move is going to be compulsory and all must be shifting to this.
At the moment, Calendar is supporting Tasks, but once these changes that the company is working on go live, the top of due dates and notifications will all vanish. Reminders will go away and a new button will help the user into the transition. The button will help in turning the reminders into tasks immediately.
Turn my reminders into tasks now
Few things don’t shift to the Tasks like if a reminder has a location it will show up in the task’s description. The user will not receive any location-based notification which is a sad thing. Usually, event reminders are according to the locations which will all vanish with this transition.
Google Tasks presently does not support location-based reminders, so any locations that the user has attached will simply be turned into text descriptions that will be displayed under their corresponding tasks following migration. So it is not that bad. At least the user will get the location idea even if in description form.
Finally, Google Keep should be holding the reminders as they were before. New strings have given no hits about shifting Google Keep to Tasks. It is well known that the reminders on the Google Keep app are a little more sophisticated than what Tasks offer. Google Keep lacks just a few tasks which means that reminders will stay as an app lacking Google Calendar integration, so it will be interesting to see in the coming future how Google will integrate the its reminder apps.
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