Apple shutting down Support Community forum
The gist
Apple's Support Community forum stopped accepting new posts and will permanently close on November 20, 2026.
Decades of user answers that often topped search results may vanish with it.
How it unfolded
- 1998Apple began its peer-to-peer technical support service as the Apple Tech Exchange; the community debuted that year.
- 2000The forum was renamed Apple Discussions.
- 2011The forum was renamed Apple Support Communities.
Key terms
- LLM
- A machine learning model trained on huge amounts of text to generate, summarize, translate, and analyze language.
Source: Wikipedia