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How do I disable Trello’s “Add due dates as you write” feature?

MariellaPaulino
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July 14, 2026

Does anyone know how to disable Trello’s “Add due dates as you write” feature?

Whenever I type words like “tomorrow,” “Friday,” or a specific date in a card title, Trello automatically adds a due date to the card. I often include dates as plain text in my task titles, so I’d love to turn this feature off completely.

Is there a setting to disable automatic date recognition globally?

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Tomislav Tobijas
Community Champion
July 14, 2026

Hey @MariellaPaulino ,

There's a feature request for this: TRELLO-1826: Ability to Disable Due Date Suggestion when creating a card 

In the workaround section, they've stated this:

Current Workarounds

Click the X to dismiss the suggestion in card composer mode.

Not sure if there's any other workaround you could use here 🫤

Cheers,
Tobi

Zari Morehouse
Contributor
July 16, 2026

I am experiencing the same "feature," and find it aggravating that I cannot write out my cards and hit enter without having to either mouse-click the X to dismiss or go back into the card to remove errant due dates that are not due dates at all. This should be an optional feature, as in, you should have to opt-in to the feature, not opt-out because your workflow is being derailed by something you didn't ask for.

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Germán Morales
Community Champion
July 15, 2026

Hi @MariellaPaulino , Trello has no built-in feature that reads plain text in a card title and turns it into a due date, that idea is still an open feature request and hasn't shipped.

  • Check the board menu, Automation, Rules, for something shaped like "when a card name is added containing a date, set the due date". That's the documented workaround people configure to get exactly this behaviour, and it's the most likely cause here.
  • If no such rule turns up, check Workspace settings, Atlassian Intelligence. AI ships on by default on Standard and Premium Workspaces and can rewrite card content, it isn't officially scoped to due dates in titles, but it's worth ruling out too.

Either way it's a board or workspace setting, not a personal preference toggle.

Matt Butler
July 17, 2026

Hi @Germán Morales 

I'm afraid you're wrong there! 

I came across this discussion from a Google search because I am struggling with this problem in the same way as the original poster.

If I create a card called something like "Check the agenda for tomorrow's meeting" then Trello will automatically remove the words "for tomorrow's" from the sentence, so the card reads "Check the agenda meeting" and it will set the due date as tomorrow's date.

Screenshot 2026-07-17 150540.png

It's extremely frustrating!!

In this example, the task needed to be done today, so Trello has automatically edited a perfectly functional card title to create a nonsensical title with the incorrect due date. 

This automation causes many more problems than it solves.

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