Zach YES! Perfect! Thats exactly what will help me a lot aswell! Most Google Calendar features are very useful tbh ^^. The more inspiration it could give you.

4 and a half years to ask a follow up question ... I'll look out for this feature rollout sometime in 2034 🤣 😭

Zach I'm not actually sure anymore what would help. I loved the way the recurring tasks used to work (one of the main reasons we started using clickup) only to be told recently that that way was a bug and now it's been 'fixed'. :( Slowly finding ways to make it work for me again. This would help, I think, but now having to use custom instead of monthly recurrences means I can't set things for any date later than 28th of the month. I'm having to do a lot of manual shuffling which kind of defeats the purpose of having a recurrence schedule.

Zach, yes exactly this Google like pop up with help

Heather What exactly changed? I'm also finding in August 2025 that our recurring tasks are suddenly having a lot of issues.

Troy Johnston Well according to support, they apparently fixed a "bug" that caused the software to work as you described above, and in the way that was the primary reason we chose clickup over the alternatives. The new way of assuming that you want to change the schedule forever based on when you complete the task or reschedule it is supposedly better and the way it is supposed to work. (I disagree.) The only semi-workaround I've found is to use the custom recurrence settings, even if setting for custom, every 1 month, but it doesn't work for anything that needs to happen after the 28th of the month (eg clients who request invoices be submitted on 30th every month, or last business day before 30th). I have added a new subtask to most of my recurring tasks, to 'check the next instance of this task has the correct date'. It's a pain in the proverbial to search for it and check and reschedule when necessary, when it used to work seamlessly. I also have to wait until the next morning to reschedule anything I didn't get finished so they fall into overdue status and the next instance creates itself. I can then usually reschedule those tasks to 'today' because they no longer trigger the next recurrence. If I reschedule them to 'tomorrow' at the end of the day like I used to, then the schedules go haywire. It's a nightmare but support isn't interested because this is the intended behaviour. We primarily use clickup as a task management to do list, not project management, and it's becoming cumbersome. The main reason we're still here is the integrated Docs so we can have the instructions for each task easily linked to that task. When I have time, I'll be looking for alternatives that might work with google doc links in descriptions of tasks. I could still end up staying with clickup because on the whole it's been great, but whatever this change was, that was also made with absolutely no communication to users because it was 'simply a bug fix', has stopped me recommending it to others even though I'm continuing to use it.

The custom setting also doesn't work when I have to complete a task early because of a weekend or for convenience, becuase it then creates a new task two or three days in the future on schedule.

Heather They just wrote to me now. On my ticket. See below:

Hi, Troy!

Thanks for your follow-up and for sharing your detailed observations. I appreciate you highlighting the historical behavior and urgency of this issue. ⚒️

After further testing, we’ve identified that the current behavior—where bulk editing recurring tasks updates the entire recurring pattern instead of just the next occurrence—is unintended. This appears to be a recent change and not the expected workflow.

To ensure we get this resolved as quickly as possible, I’m escalating your case to our Technical Support team for deeper investigation and troubleshooting.

We appreciate your patience in this entire process. 🚀

Best,

Carmela

Troy Johnston Good luck, and I hope when they fix your issue, it fixes my issue. Part of my many responses from my tickets was - this was back in July though, so maybe my issue is unrelated to yours but sounds similar (I'd moved it to Tuesday that week because Monday was a public holiday, but all my Monday tasks ended up on Tuesday the following week as well. :( ):

I reviewed the task you mentioned in your latest reply, which you had said was set up to recur weekly on Mondays, on schedule. It looks like the task now recurs on Tuesdays after moving the due date of the most recently closed recurrence. This is expected, as per our documentation.

There may have been some confusion about the expected behavior here, as we fixed a bug within the last month where the recurring cadence wasn't being rescheduled when changing the due date of the current recurrence.

Heather Hmm yes. Sounds like same issue.

For the sake of clarity here CLICKUP here's how I summarise the requested behaviour.

(Right now there are newly introduced bugs in this requirement. See below video.)

BOTH of these used to be in place and working - until approximately August 2025 where bugs were inserted.

Troy Johnston Heather - would the legacy recurring settings solve your need here?

Zach Zach, do I presume you work for Clickup? If so please see my ticket referenced above, and we can take this offline.

My immediate answer is two-fold:

Please insert precision with your comments to assist.

There is an active ticket as you can see and support-team have recently confirmed that changes made recently have inserted bugs into the software.

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Anecdotes:

Like Heather - the ONE SINGLE reason we picked clickup was the mature and granular recurring task settings. This is now broken across hundreds of tasks. Our re-work to setup again once the bugs are fixed will be immense...

It appears to us clickup have made FALSE assumption that any edit to a recurring task MUST ALWAYS edit every recurring setting. This is clearly a bug. The system has screens designed for editing recurring settings.... and these have always been independent to the screens where edit of the next occurrence of task is performed. They were always independent of each other - to permit the necessary flexibility.

But now broken logic.

What I dont understand is how such a change was made without realising what was broken via regression testing?

Confirmed as bug. CLK-795165

Zach Hi, thanks for the question, in all the years I've been using clickup, I have never needed to use the legacy recurring settings. I've had a look at them now, and recurring monthly still only allows up to the 28th, or last. To be honest, I can't work out the difference between the legacy and existing except maybe the layout?

I don't know if using the weekly legacy recurring schedule would be affected by the same bug/non-bug that started recently. Especially since it appears Troy and I have been given opposing answers to similar questions. Some of my ticket numbers were 2263846 and 2269816, if you would like to take our discussion offline as well (as Troy suggested) and compare my conversation threads with Troy's, rather than potentially bombarding all the other commenters and voters with updates. Troy's been told the recent change is a bug and I was told it was to fix a "bug". 🤷🏻‍♀️ I noticed the change in July and Troy in August. Perhaps they're rolled out at different times to different users?

Heather Troy Johnston Can you please take a look at a possible change to see if this helps or if there is still something missing for you?

Zach Heather Zach seeing as you work for Clickup I suggest as Heather does you come back on our tickets rather than a public forum. I only came here as I was originally instructed to by support when they were initially denying the problem.

That has changed now - the item has been accepted as a bug.

My response: Clickup (to me) is fixing a problem that doesn't exist. Having managed IT teams for 20yrs this can classically be an issue sometimes where technical teams are not close enough to the users or use-cases. I'm not saying necessarily that's what has happened here - but I am unaware of any original bug that caused Clickup to then make changes that broke recurring tasks.

For us - this is urgent. Urgent please. Please treat it as such and re-instate the prior codebase as a priority rollback. Then you'll have time to work out whatever it was you were trying to fix without totally breaking the functionality again.

Zach Hi, I think that would go most of the way to fixing the issue but I also started having issues when I mark a task as complete early, without changing the due date. This was also changing the recurrence settings even without accessing the recur settings window. I'm not entirely sure whether that is still happening since I changed most items to custom recurrence and manually check every new task to make sure it has the right date. It's also about the new instance being created on schedule. eg on if due on 10th of the month, then on 10th September, the 10th October task would be created even if I hadn't finished working on the 10th September one. That meant, if I needed to make any permanent changes to the future task, I could pull up that next task and edit it straight away.

Thanks Troy and Heather, we'll sort this out ASAP and get this working how it was for you again.

As far as this task, we'll tackle the application of single/all recurring tasks for Calendar in a follow up task.

Zach Hi Zach, also curious how your response lines up with this request that has now been marked as "not on our radar". https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/add-a-change-just-this-event-option-to-recurring-tasks

Sarah Dibble It always did work until recently. See comments in this thread.