I am on the following windows build:Edition Windows 11 Home Single LanguageVersion 21H2Installed on ‎24/‎07/‎2021OS build 22000.100Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 421.18901.0.3 In Windows 10, the taskbar calendar used to show events of the day. That has disappeared in Windows 11. Is there a way to enable this?

tokgrumps Correct, but it feels silly to open the newsfeed with widgets to see my events. The taskbar calendar on the taskbar now has no function except telling you the time and date. It shows you the month and the date, and you can click on another day (a circle appears around that date) but you can't do anything with it. It is so frustrating i can't understand why they would do this other than force you to a (almost) useless calendar widget above the newsfeed. PLEASE fix this we should have the choice of not using the widget calendar. Redesign Windows 10 taskbar calendar to a Windows 11 version.

kishorehari I have the same issue. Also the events added to the calendar app wont show in taskbar calendar. It just shows a calendar with no functionality whatsoever. You can click a date but can't add anything. Super frustrating, it's a function i use every day! Windows 11 HomeVersion 21H2Build v22000.100Windows Feature Experience Pack 421.18901.0.3

I already have a Rainmeter skin that shows the date and time, so if that is all the Taskbar calendar will be good for from now on, I have no use for it. And I am not going to use the widgets thing until MS stops having every link force users onto Edge (so I will probably never use the widgets).

randyc12There is a tool called EdgeDeflector that reroutes Edge requests to your default browser. I was hoping with Windows 11 that MS would have given up on attempting to force Edge down everyone's throat... alas, they seem to have doubled down it. Anyway, EdgeDeflector is dead useful; Chrome and Firefox both have extensions for use with Cortana (Chrometana, Foxtana) that reroutes the queries to the search engine of your choosing, so if you want to do a quick web search you don't have to to use ███████ useless Bing.The calendar issue is irritating, I'm not sure why selecting a date is even incorporated when it has no functionality other than drawing a circle around it. But hopefully this can be of some help. Mojtabai

Yeah, I have the same issue. It's pretty bad considering I had to synch every account on my mail to get them all show up in my calendar but I can't see them in my taskbar now. This has to get fixed because people don't want to use calendar widget since it forces you to use Edge

Calendar events disappeared from taskbar in Windows 11 insider build

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mycielski
Copper Contributor
Oct 13, 2021
Just installed the official build, unfortunately no change. It's beyond my understanding why they'd remove one of the most obvious, basic features, like actually viewing your agenda/events in the calendar. It's completely useless now, and there's no reasonable way to restore that functionality. In Win 10 I was actually hoping they'd expand that functionality at some point, letting you customise the calendar more (e.g. changing the view to see the whole day/more events or events in the whole week/month). Instead they just removed it. What the hell Microsoft??
Together with the limited taskbar (no option to add Quick Launch or any other own links, no option to change the view to show all open folders / names), I'm seriously considering downgrading to Win 10 (which tbh was the best Win until now - seems they're back at the good-**bleep**-good trend).
TahaKorkmaz
Brass Contributor
Aug 12, 2021
Yeah, I have the same issue. It's pretty bad considering I had to synch every account on my mail to get them all show up in my calendar but I can't see them in my taskbar now. This has to get fixed because people don't want to use calendar widget since it forces you to use Edge
ralph1988
Iron Contributor
Jul 27, 2021
kishorehari I have the same issue. Also the events added to the calendar app wont show in taskbar calendar. It just shows a calendar with no functionality whatsoever. You can click a date but can't add anything. Super frustrating, it's a function i use every day!

Windows 11 Home
Version 21H2
Build v22000.100
Windows Feature Experience Pack 421.18901.0.3
- abiolaemma2014
  Copper Contributor
  Apr 04, 2022
  I thought I was the only, it's super super annoying and frustrating ralph1988
- tokgrumps
  Copper Contributor
  Jul 28, 2021
  ralph1988 There is a widget panel when you swipe from the left, there you can add the calendar widget but it became a downgrade.
  - Clicking events opens up outlook calendar on the web instead of the app
  - Calendars from other accounts aren't included, you'll have to import into your main account for it to be available in the customize widget options
  - redmonds0424gmailcom
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 30, 2021
    I was able to find the widget but not able to add the google calendar, which is what I was using to my widgets.

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Calendar events disappeared from taskbar in Windows 11 insider build

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