GoKawiilApple Support Community forums to close permanently on November 20, 2026
Apple abruptly stopped allowing new posts on its Apple Support Community forums and announced the site will shut down entirely in just over a week, moving to read-only status in the meantime. Apple gave no official explanation for the decision. The forum dated back to 1998, originally launched as the Apple Tech Exchange before later being renamed and relaunched in 2011.
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The author suggests the closure may reflect a broader push toward efficiency and cost-cutting at Apple, drawing a parallel to Verizon shutting its own community forum earlier this year. Community forums can also expose companies to reputational risk when users publicly criticize corporate decisions, which may have factored into the move. The shutdown leaves longtime users without a once-popular peer support resource, though the author argues its usefulness had already declined significantly.
- Apple Support Community forums close permanently on November 20, 2026, with new posts already disabled.
- The forum had operated since 1998 under various names before its 2011 relaunch.
- Verizon shut down its own community forum similarly earlier this year, suggesting a possible industry pattern.
Source: 9to5mac.com — Ben Lovejoy, 2026-11-11
Published there as: “I feel a little nostalgic about the Apple Support Community forums, but it was time”
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