Our team has been working on Tasks in Teams around the clock since we first announced it at Microsoft Ignite 2019-and we couldn’t be more excited to bring it to all our users. We will make an update to our Message Center post when we kick off this change.

We will make this change over a weekend to reduce the likelihood of users seeing different names as the name change rolls out, and we expect to make the change by the end of October. This announcement also moves us to the next stage in our naming sequence, where the app name in Teams changes to Tasks by Planner and To Do in desktop and Tasks in mobile. Tasks in Teams lets you manage your team tasks from Planner and individual tasks from To Do in your hub for teamwork. There’s more information about government cloud availability later in this post. We have exciting news that’s more than a year in the making: Tasks in Microsoft Teams desktop and web is now 100% rolled out to everyone with a Microsoft 365 subscription across all non-government tenants. In the future, the app name will be shortened to Tasks. Once we’ve made the name change, you will see a banner announcing the change.

We will make an other update when the name change has kicked off. UPDATE (Oct 30, 2020): Unfortunately, changing the app name in Teams from Planner to Tasks by Planner and To Do has been delayed until later this calendar year.

Tasks by planner and todo