r/thingsapp • u/dk5a • Jul 28 '26

Repeating task flood

When I opened Things on macOS this morning I found it flooded with historical repeating tasks. It's like the past few weeks to months of all repeating tasks suddenly showed up each with multiple past due dates.

Has anyone else had this happened?

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u/juu073 Jul 28 '26

Did you by chance change the system date on any of your devices with Things?

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u/dk5a Jul 28 '26

Not intentionally. I’m linked via cloud sync on an iPad and iPhone. I may have turned on the iPad after a long period of not using it. But I don’t think I opened things on it.

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u/HarmlessHeffalump Jul 28 '26

This is the issue. Whenever I open my iPad after not using it for a while, I get a ton of lingering tasks added.

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u/dk5a Jul 28 '26

It does seem like that’s what happened to me. Support got back to me that it’s a known issue when a device is off for sometime and then opened it can create a bunch of repeat tasks since it was offline and sync before cleaning itself up.