ChatGPT Adds a Hub for Scheduled Tasks

OpenAI has given ChatGPT a dedicated home for tasks that run on a schedule. Rolling out June 17 on web and mobile, a new "Scheduled" page collects every prompt you've set to fire later — at a specific time, on a recurring basis, or loosely across a part of the day like morning or evening — and shows each one with its next run time. From that page you can pause, edit or delete anything queued up.

The capability itself isn't brand new; what's new is that it's no longer buried in a settings menu. Scheduled tasks can also act as quiet monitors: you can ask ChatGPT to keep checking the web or a connected app and ping you when something changes, instead of you remembering to ask. OpenAI says the revamped system makes "all tasks faster and more reliable," and it's available to Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users, with nothing announced yet for the free tier.

Pulse is going away

There's a trade. OpenAI is sunsetting Pulse, the feature that pushed a personalized daily briefing into your app each morning. Pro users get a 14-day window to keep using it before it shuts off, after which the scheduling hub is the official way to recreate a morning summary — you build the recurring prompt yourself instead of letting Pulse decide what you see. It's a small shift in control: less algorithmic surprise, more of you specifying exactly what you want delivered.

Why this matters for you

This is a minor UI change with a bigger idea behind it: the assistant you poke at on demand is slowly turning into one that does things on its own clock. A standing 7 a.m. prompt that pulls your calendar, the weather and overnight headlines into one digest is the kind of glue people used to wire up with Zapier or a cron job. Putting it one tap away — with a visible list you can audit and switch off — is what moves "scheduled prompts" from a power-user trick to something a regular person will actually use. The catch is the usual one: a task that searches the web unattended is only as trustworthy as the model's judgment that day, so treat it as a convenience, not an oracle.