How to add, hide or change rooms, areas and tasks
Tap Settings, then Rooms & Areas. Tap Add Room/Area to add a room, open a room and tap Add Task to add a task, or tap the eye icon next to a room to hide it.
Chore Boss comes with 25 built-in rooms and areas, each with its own tasks. You can hide the ones you don't use and add your own.
You need a profile without Limit Access to change rooms and tasks.
Open your rooms and areas
- Tap the Settings tab.
- Under Current Home, tap Rooms & Areas.
The Manage Rooms & Areas screen lists every room with its number of tasks. Use Search rooms & areas ... to find one. Chores you add without a room are kept in Everyday, which is listed on the Chores tab but not here.
Add a room or area
- On Manage Rooms & Areas, tap Add Room/Area.
- Enter a Name.
- Tap the icon to pick an emoji.
- Tap Save.
While creating a chore (tap +, then Custom chore), you can also tap Add your own room at the bottom of the room list.
Add a task to a room
- On Manage Rooms & Areas, tap the room.
- Tap Add Task.
- Enter a Name and tap Save.
While creating a chore, you can also tap Add next to the search box in the task list. Each task name can only be used once in a room.
Adding your own rooms and tasks is free.
Hide a room you don't use
- On Manage Rooms & Areas, tap the eye icon next to the room. Or open the room, tap the three dots at the top right, then tap Hide area.
- To bring it back, tap the eye icon again, or tap Show area.
Hidden rooms are not offered when you add or create a chore. The room list shows how many are hidden, for example "2 hidden". Chores you already created in a hidden room keep working.
Change or delete your own rooms and tasks
Built-in rooms and tasks can't be renamed or deleted. To use a different name for a built-in room, hide it and add your own room instead.
For rooms and tasks you added:
- Rename a room: open the room, tap the three dots, then tap Edit.
- Delete a room: open the room, tap the three dots, then tap Delete. The app warns "Associated items will also be deleted!".
- Rename a task: open the room and tap the pencil icon next to the task.
- Delete a task: open the room and tap the trash icon next to the task.
Troubleshooting
- "Task with this name already exists for this area": pick a different name, or use the task that's already there.
- "A Name is Required": enter a name before tapping Save.
- The upgrade screen opens when you tap Add Room/Area or Add Task: update Chore Boss to the latest version, where your own rooms and tasks are free.
- A room is missing when you create a chore: it may be hidden. Show it again from Rooms & Areas.
- There's no Rooms & Areas in Settings: it shows only when you are signed in and the selected profile doesn't have Limit Access.