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Calendar events disappeared from taskbar in Windows 11 insider build
I am on the following windows build:
Edition Windows 11 Home Single Language
Version 21H2
Installed on 24/07/2021
OS build 22000.100
Experience 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?
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 421.18901.0.3ralph1988 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
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.
I thought I was the only, it's super super annoying and frustrating ralph1988
- 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
- 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). - I have found the best approach is to type"Calendar" in the search box, then select "Pin to Taskbar". You can then add/delete/browse the calendar. In effect, the only use for the calendar widget on the far right of the taskbar is to see the current date and time (and day of the week if you hover over it). Otherwise, it is useless!
Thanks for this suggestion, it worked and all of my calendar events are there!
- Hi, just checking in to see if anyone has had an luck resolving this or coming up with a fix? I have my calendar app pinned but it's just not the same and seems EXTREMELY neglectful to add the most basic feature to the calendar on the task bar. It's not even "add" actually, it's just keeping it the same as it used to be, it makes no sense why they would REMOVE this function in the first place. I was really hoping that maybe there was just some setting option that I needed to enable because it seemed impossible that this function was actually removed...
Saywhaaattt I 100% agree, having to go somewhere else then just clicking on date/time in the bottom of my screens should produce the calendar and the timezones I have populated. This is NOT an upgrade - it's loss of functionality.
Hi kishorehari,
Thanks for your post.
I have the same issue and I'm a University student so all my events are on my Uni account which doesn't allow me to add my account to the outlook calendar widget (I will refrain myself from venting about the so called windows "widgets").
Anyway, I'm adding myself to this chain in the hope that when a solution is created someone will post about it.
Thanks
- It's crazy because it's not even a bug, just a good feature being removed. Please MS bring it back asap !
- Add back te ability to view the days agenda to the taskbars calendar
I downgraded my windows back to 10, if Windows wants people to use Win11 this type life improving things shouldn't go away
- I don't have a problem. I just clicked the up arrow and now the whole month pops up. With the notifications on top, like it was in Win 10.
That isn't the issue- I think you're confused about what everyone is saying lol Debbie_Faddis625
I hated what they did, so my workaround was to go into my emails, select the calendar there and when it opens up, look at your taskbar and you will see the calendar icon. Right click and pin it to the taskbar.
Hope this helps.
- This definitely helps, but I don't like how the calendar app looks when I open it up. The monthly vies shows my millions of daily tasks in red, and you can't just scroll through the list for the day like the calendar shortcut used to do. It gives me a headache the second I open it up and then I forget what I came there to do. Maybe I'll have to go back to using the Tasks app...
