| Date | 18 Jun 2026 |
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OpenAI updated its official ChatGPT release notes on June 17, 2026, rolling out a new Scheduled tasks feature while confirming the sunset of the Pulse proactive updates tool.
The changes consolidate proactive assistance into user-initiated, controllable scheduled executions rather than always-on updates.
Scheduled Tasks Capabilities
With scheduled tasks, users can ask ChatGPT to send reminders, handle recurring work, or monitor things for them. The update improves discoverability, management speed, reliability, and notification usefulness.
Key changes include:
- A new Scheduled page in the sidebar that serves as a central hub to view all active tasks, see the next run time, and pause, resume, edit, or delete tasks.
- Support for scheduling at specific times or broader windows (e.g., morning, afternoon, or evening).
- Monitoring tasks that can search the web and connected apps for changes, notifying users only when there is something worth reporting.
Availability and Hard Limits
The feature is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users. Active task limits vary by tier. Tasks cannot run more than once per hour. Unattended tasks may automatically pause after a period of inactivity.
Pulse Sunset
Pulse is being sunset as proactive updates move into the new scheduled tasks system.
Pro users will retain access to Pulse for 14 days from today (through approximately July 1, 2026). To maintain daily updates, Pro users can ask ChatGPT to schedule a daily briefing based on their interests and past chats.
Actions to Take
Pro users currently relying on Pulse should immediately test and create scheduled daily briefing tasks inside ChatGPT. This preserves continuity before the 14-day access window closes. Use specific interests and recent chat history to replicate Pulse-style updates.
All eligible users (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise) should watch for rollout notifications and, once available, explore the new Scheduled sidebar page to set up reminders, recurring workflows, or monitoring tasks. Start with simple one-time or daily schedules to test reliability and notification quality.
Business and Enterprise teams should evaluate current or planned recurring workflows (e.g., monitoring reports, compliance checks, or team reminders) against the new feature’s web/app search and selective notification capabilities. Review your plan’s active task limits early to avoid hitting caps on complex or high-volume automations.
Power users running unattended or high-frequency automations should note the once-per-hour maximum and inactivity pause behavior, then design schedules accordingly (e.g., using broader time windows where precise timing is not required).
This update shifts proactive AI assistance from passive Pulse delivery to explicit, user-managed scheduled execution with improved controls and more targeted notifications. Users who depend on daily or recurring AI updates have a short window to migrate workflows before Pulse access ends for Pro accounts.