Microsoft To-Do Sync Issues

Anonymous
2019-12-14T01:18:52+00:00

I've finally made the switch from Wunderlist to Microsoft To-Do, but it hasn't gone as smoothly as I had wanted.

I am signed into three devices using To-Do: Web client in browser, iPhone and iPad.

I have successfully imported all my tasks from Wunderlist to To-Do, but my reminder notifications aren't showing on my iOS devices. They have successfully synced, but the web client is the only device showing reminder notifications. I have tried closing apps and signing out and back in again, to no avail.

After a little experimenting, the notification will only show on the device where I change the reminder notification time. For example, changing the reminder notification time on the web client results in the notification showing only on that device. The same applies to each iOS device.

Not sure if this is a bug or by design, but I rely on these reminder notifications on different devices to get my things done. I simply can't use it without this ability, which worked perfectly on Wunderlist.

Any suggestions as to where I might be going wrong, or simply some general advice would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-04-03T08:31:06+00:00

    I'm having issues syncing shared lists with my wife. I first thought the issue was with the iPhone app, but no. To test, I opened each account with the web version of To Do in the browser and also the phone apps. (So two browser tabs and two phones.) When a list invitee adds an item from web or phone, it's propagated to both accounts (web and phone). But when the list owner adds an item, it's only propagated to that user (web and phone). So definitely the issue is on Microsoft's servers.

    I would qualify this as a critical issue. If you can't reliably sync lists, then the app is no good. One needs to have trust in the syncing, and it's been failing too much lately.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-06T16:37:04+00:00

    Just installed ToDo to see if it would be a good replacement for Apple Tasks.

    Create tasks on macOS and expect them to sync to my phone automatically.  Doesn't happen.  I have to open the app on iOS and refresh before they will show up.  If tasks don't sync what's the point? Makes the "new" widget in iOS pretty useless.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-01-21T13:48:03+00:00

    I cannot express how frustrating this is. 

    Wunderlist was absolutely my nr1 app for list sharing. They had such a perfect gem, and they completely completely completely ruined it. 

    That being said, that was the last Microsoft app to ever touch my iPhone again. 

    Thanks for not listening to your customers.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-06T13:19:26+00:00

    Microsoft continues to disappoint. Wunderlist was a decent app and now my wife and I can’t sync anything across our iPhones rendering the app useless. I hope this gets fixed soon, or just leave Wunderlist alone since it was working fine. 

    Agreed.  It seems like they buy small competitors just to eliminate the competition.  Thye did the same with Yammer a few years ago.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-04-03T13:47:44+00:00

    I've recently started using to-do on my laptop and it works well, but just downloaded on my iPhone, signed into my microsoft account for the same email and nothing has synced to the iPhone.  Please help or I'll have to find something besides to-do that does properly sync

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