Make a task repeat
Set a chore to come back daily, weekly, every few weeks or on set days — and give it a start and stop date if it only runs for a while.
Where to find it
Task editor → Repeats
Most household work is not a one-off. A repeating task is created once and then appears when it is due, rather than being retyped every week.
- Open the task, or start a new one.
- Tap Repeats.
- Choose how often — daily, weekly, monthly, or every N days or weeks for the awkward ones like bins on alternate Wednesdays.
Start and stop dates
A repeat can be given a starts on and an ends on date. This is for the jobs that only exist for part of the year: swimming kit through the summer term, gritting the path in winter, watering someone’s plants for a fortnight.
The repeat counts intervals from the start date, so “every three weeks from the 6th” means the 6th, the 27th, and so on — not every third week of the calendar.
Editing one, or all of them
Changing a repeating task asks whether you mean this one or all of them. Moving a single occurrence — this week’s bins going out a day late — does not disturb the pattern.
Deleting works the same way, so you can drop one occurrence without losing the chore.
A note on fairness
Repeats are where household work quietly accumulates on one person. It is worth looking down the list occasionally and asking who ends up with all the weekly ones — the time breakdown makes that visible.
Updated 27 August 2026. Something here wrong or missing? Tell us — we'd rather fix the page than answer it twice.
