Google has begun rolling out its previously announced migration of Keep reminders to Google Tasks, marking a gradual consolidation of the company’s reminder systems across Android and the web. The change isn’t yet available on all accounts, but early users report seeing a prompt that reads Reminders are now Google Tasks once the update arrives. Google initially targeted the second half of 2025 for this transition, and the staggered rollout suggests the company is pushing to complete it before the end of the year.
With the update enabled, tapping the bell icon in a Keep note now saves the reminder directly to Google Tasks. A Tasks-branded blue icon appears at the top of the reminder sheet, and users keep the same scheduling options they’re familiar with, including Tomorrow morning, Tomorrow evening, Next week, and custom date and time selectors with repeat intervals. What’s missing is support for location-based reminders. Because Google Tasks does not offer geofencing, existing Home or Work locations are placed into the task’s description, and new location-based reminders can no longer be created.
Once set, reminders appear in the Google Tasks app as well as Google Calendar, where they are labeled From Keep. Tapping these reminders opens the related Keep note for quick reference, maintaining a link between the two apps despite the shift in backend services. Keep still includes its Reminders page, accessible from the navigation drawer in list or grid form, but the app will no longer send reminder notifications. Alerts are now handled entirely through Tasks or Calendar, which must be installed to ensure notifications continue to function.
Editing behavior has a few quirks. Date and time adjustments can be made from any of the three apps — Keep, Tasks, or Calendar — and completing the task works from any of them as well. But renaming a reminder must be done from Tasks or Calendar. Changing the title of the Keep note alone won’t update the task title, which may cause mild confusion during the transition.
Google has also outlined several edge-case rules for the migration. Tasks has a limit of 100,000 entries; users exceeding that will see their oldest Keep reminders excluded from migration. Long reminder titles may be shortened automatically. Tasks from the past year appear in the All-day section of the current day in Calendar under Pending tasks. Repeating tasks with extreme recurrence intervals — more than every 1,000 days, weeks, months, or years — are automatically adjusted to the 1,000-unit threshold. Non-repeating reminders older than a year are placed in an Old Google Keep Reminders list, and any tasks dated beyond the year 3000 are shifted to 2900.
For most users, the experience should feel largely familiar, aside from the loss of location-based alerts. The migration centralizes Google’s task and reminder ecosystem around Tasks and Calendar, simplifying notification behavior but leaving Keep with a slightly reduced feature set. As the rollout continues, users may want to double-check that both Tasks and Calendar are installed to ensure reminders continue to fire as expected.
