Here’s something you might not have known: ChatGPT can schedule tasks. You can tell it to do something later, at a specific time, or sometime during a general window like morning or evening, and it will follow through. The catch is that the feature was so tucked away that most people never found it.
OpenAI is now trying to fix that. As reported by Engadget, the company has started rolling out a dedicated Scheduled page inside ChatGPT, giving users a clear place to see, manage, and track any tasks they’ve set up. It’s a straightforward acknowledgment that a useful feature was hiding in plain sight.
This kind of update matters because it points to where AI assistants are heading. Chatbots are no longer just tools you ping with a question and wait for an answer. The goal is for them to work in the background, handling things on your behalf without you having to prompt them each time. Scheduled tasks are a step in that direction.
The new Scheduled page shows up as a shortcut in ChatGPT’s sidebar. From there, you can see all your active tasks, including when they’re set to run. You can also pause, edit, or delete anything in the queue. OpenAI says the underlying system has also been improved, with “all tasks faster and more reliable” than before.
The scheduling options are fairly flexible. You can tell ChatGPT to handle something at a precise time, or give it a looser window like “this afternoon.” The feature also supports monitoring tasks, where ChatGPT proactively checks the web or your connected apps and surfaces relevant information without you asking.
The update is rolling out to paid users first:
- Plus
- Pro
- Business
- Enterprise
There’s no word yet on when Free tier users will get access.
One thing disappearing alongside this update is Pulse, the personalized daily summary feature OpenAI launched last year. Pro users get a 14-day window to keep using it before it’s shut down. After that, the new scheduling hub takes over that job, letting users set up their own summary prompts on whatever schedule they prefer.
It’s a small but telling shift. Rather than OpenAI deciding what a daily summary should look like, users can now define it themselves, and have ChatGPT deliver it when they actually want it.
