# How to stop Reclaim events from moving using locks

**This article refers to Reclaim 1.0 features and workflows**. You can confirm your current app version in your [User profile](https://app.reclaim.ai/users/self) and view help docs for Reclaim 2.0 [here](https://help.reclaim.ai/en/collections/19647810).

Sometimes you may want Reclaim to stop moving events around, and ensure that your Task Event, Habit Event, Focus Time, or Smart Meetings stay in place so they don't reschedule at the last minute. Reclaim addresses this by allowing you to "lock" events, either manually or automatically.

**Locking** an event means:

- The event will show as [Busy](https://help.reclaim.ai/en/articles/4129406) to others, and

- Reclaim will no longer automatically reschedule the event, even if it gets overbooked by another event.

# When events lock automatically

By default, Reclaim will automatically lock your Smart Meetings at 4am in your local timezone at the beginning of the day so that they don't move around the day-of.

You can adjust your [Auto-lock settings](https://app.reclaim.ai/settings/general) in Reclaim as shown below:

![](https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/1140303741/ccd4e4f51ca8040f16485e32/Screenshot+2024-08-09+at+11_53_46%E2%80%AFAM.png?expires=1789605900&signature=f904e6783bbdf79424e7fe6131435f0a2e8749a26d3242d81a89da5a66fec103&req=dSEjFsp%2BnoZbWPMW1HO4zYr%2BxmhuOIXhNawrUPU%2BmVDua36mIbhnYpR264Pr%0AaiJMV07B1oQ33sodtNY%3D%0A)

Events will *also* automatically lock anytime they are manually rescheduled by you, or if you change anything about the event directly in Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar. This allows you to tell Reclaim that you want to do something at a specific time without worrying about Reclaim trying to fight with you about it.

Read more [here](https://help.reclaim.ai/en/articles/6750250) to learn about auto-locking for events.

# Manually locking and unlocking events

Task Events, Habit Instances, and Smart 1:1s can be locked and unlocked manually from either the [Planner](https://app.reclaim.ai/planner) or [Google Calendar add-on](https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/reclaimai/950518663892).

- [Lock/Unlock from the Planner](https://help.reclaim.ai/en/articles/6477234)

- [Lock/Unlock from the Google Calendar add-on](https://help.reclaim.ai/en/articles/6477239)