Google Calendar gets the ability to hide completed tasks

A recent update is now hiding completed tasks on Google Calendar for the web. This is an impressive upgrade, as it’d help declutter a user’s calendar, hence driving their attention to pending events. Some users of Google services are now noticing a prompt on the web informing them of the new change to the web platform.

Now, when you go into your Google Calendar on the web, you’ll no longer see your completed tasks. Instead, you’d get to see declined events as well as other upcoming tasks and events. This helps to clean up the interface, making it a bit more streamlined and easy to navigate through events for users.

However, this update doesn’t leave users trapped, as it gives room for changes. For those users who want to have access to their completed tasks, they can still adjust the settings to show these tasks on the calendar interface. If you are part of those users and find yourself scrolling through Google Calendar on the web, then you are in luck.

Google Calendar completed tasks are now off by default, but you still have a choice

This new improvement to the Google Calendar web platform is impressive and improves users’ experience. But Google was sure to keep in mind users who still want to see their completed tasks on the calendar. For this reason, the platform will allow these users to toggle on the ability to see their completed tasks.

To do this, users need to head over to the Google Calendar web platform and ensure their Gmail account is signed in. Next, they need to head over to the little rectangular drop-down button to the far top right of the screen and click it. This button sits next to the Google Apps button and the users’ Gmail profile button for switching between available accounts.

Tapping on this rectangular drop-down button will show off how the users want their calendar to be displayed. The second section under this is where users can change the settings to display their completed tasks on Google Calendar. This second section has the option to show weekend and declined events checked as standard.

But just under this is the option to show completed tasks, which isn’t checked thanks to the recent update. Users can then tap on the “Show completed tasks” option to check it. By doing this, they’ll be able to see all their completed tasks on their Google Calendar on the web.

While this change is available on the Google Calendar web platform, it isn’t available on the mobile app. It might find its way to the mobile app in the coming weeks. Would you put this new change to use on your Google Calendar on the web?