Belle II has a comprehensive $\tau$ physics program, particularly in precision measurements of $\tau$ lepton properties and in searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violations. Belle~II profits from the relatively large $\tau$-pair production rate in the low background environment of $e^+e^-$ -collisions at 10.58~GeV.
Up to mid-2021, Belle~II collected a sample corresponding to $214~\text{fb}^{-1}$ of data.
We present a first measurement of the $\tau$ mass, prospects for the $\tau$-lifetime measurement, and we review the overall $\tau$ lepton physics program of Belle~II.