OpenAI launched a scheduled tasks feature for ChatGPT on June 17, 2026, allowing the chatbot to autonomously handle recurring work, send reminders, and monitor systems without direct user intervention. The feature is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users on web and mobile.
“With scheduled tasks, users can ask ChatGPT to send reminders, handle recurring work, or monitor things for them,” OpenAI said. “This update makes tasks easier to find and manage, faster and more reliable, with more useful notifications.”
How Scheduled Tasks Work
A new Scheduled page in the ChatGPT sidebar gives users a single view of all active tasks, their next run times, and controls to pause, resume, edit, or delete them. Users can schedule work for specific times or broader windows such as morning, afternoon, or evening.
Monitoring tasks can search the web and check connected apps for changes, notifying users only when something worth reporting changes. Tasks are capped at running once per hour, and “unattended tasks may automatically pause after a period of inactivity,” according to OpenAI’s announcement.
Pulse Removal
Scheduled tasks replace Pulse, ChatGPT’s existing proactive tasks feature. Pulse will be removed in 14 days. The transition from Pulse to scheduled tasks reflects a shift from reactive notifications to structured autonomous execution. Where Pulse surfaced information based on OpenAI’s algorithms, scheduled tasks give users explicit control over what runs, when, and how often.
The Product Signal
The release positions ChatGPT as a persistent operations layer rather than a reactive question-answering tool. The ability to monitor connected apps, run searches on a schedule, and deliver filtered notifications moves ChatGPT closer to a personal agent that works in the background. The once-per-hour execution cap and auto-pause on inactivity function as guardrails, limiting how aggressively the system acts without user engagement.
OpenAI also announced camera and photo UX improvements on iOS, World Cup score tracking, and pronunciation help in over 60 languages as part of its June 17 ChatGPT drop, according to 9to5Mac.