On June 17 (US time), OpenAI announced a revamped version of "Scheduled Tasks" in ChatGPT, the feature that lets the AI run recurring work automatically. Uses such as sending reminders, handling repetitive work, and monitoring situations—the "set it once and let it run" kind of workflow—are now faster, more reliable, and easier to manage. A dedicated page has been added to the sidebar, and the feature is rolling out gradually on the web and mobile apps.
From a Q&A Tool to an AI That Keeps Working
Until now, ChatGPT has been built around a single back-and-forth: you ask a question and get an answer. Scheduled Tasks takes that a step further. Once you give an instruction, ChatGPT carries out the work on its own at the times you set.
For example, you can register requests like "Every morning, summarize the top news and send it to me" or "Every Monday, organize last week's schedule." When the appointed time arrives, ChatGPT runs the task and delivers the result. OpenAI describes the feature around three uses: sending reminders, handling recurring routine work, and monitoring specific situations. All of them assume a different relationship with the tool—rather than operating it every time, you hand the work to the AI and wait.
The idea of scheduled, recurring execution has been offered before as a beta, but this update rebuilds it from the ground up. OpenAI frames the new experience as easier to find and manage, faster and more reliable, with more useful notifications.
A New "Scheduled" Page in the Sidebar
At the center of the revamp is the new "Scheduled" page added to the sidebar. From there you can create new tasks, see the list of active tasks, check each task's next run time, and pause, resume, or edit them—all in one place.
Previously it was hard to tell where your registered tasks lived, and keeping track of their status took effort. With everything gathered on a dedicated page, you can see at a glance what is scheduled and when it will run next. The feature also supports push and email notifications, making it harder to miss when a task has run.
Note that there is a limit on how often tasks can run: they cannot be executed more frequently than once per hour. High-frequency automation that repeats every few minutes is not possible, but daily or weekly routines are well covered.
Active Task Limits Differ by Plan
The number of active tasks you can keep at once depends on your plan. The limits OpenAI listed are as follows.
| Plan | Active tasks allowed |
|---|---|
| Go | 3 |
| Plus | 5 |
| Business / Edu | 10 |
| Pro / Enterprise | 15 |
Entry-level plans keep the number small, while higher tiers can run more tasks in parallel. The feature is rolling out to Go, Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users on the ChatGPT web and mobile apps.
What Gets Easier
The value of scheduled execution is that you no longer have to remember things yourself. Hand off your morning information gathering, a periodic first draft of a report, or tracking a particular topic to ChatGPT, and the results arrive when you need them. Where a smartphone reminder only nudges you, Scheduled Tasks goes further by actually carrying out the work after the reminder.
At the same time, with limits on the number of active tasks and the once-per-hour cap, not everything can be automated. The smart first step is to identify the work you truly want to repeat and register only a focused set of tasks.
Summary
ChatGPT's Scheduled Tasks brings the AI closer to being a partner that regularly carries out the work you assign, rather than one that merely answers questions. You can manage your scheduled items in one place from the dedicated sidebar page, and it now supports push and email notifications. Despite the per-plan task limits and the once-per-hour cap, its usefulness for daily and weekly routines is steadily growing.
