{"id":51108,"date":"2026-11-12T18:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/apple-says-it-will-shut-down-its-apple-support-community-forums-after-28-years\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T18:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:35:39","slug":"apple-says-it-will-shut-down-its-apple-support-community-forums-after-28-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/apple-says-it-will-shut-down-its-apple-support-community-forums-after-28-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple says it will shut down its Apple Support Community forums after 28 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever had a problem with your <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/macbook\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">MacBook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/iphone\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">iPhone<\/a>, or Apple account, a quick Google search for a <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/apple-ios-27-2-1-bugs-update\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">fix<\/a> likely sent you to a relevant thread on the Apple Support Community at <a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">discussions.apple.com<\/a>, where Apple customers tried to help their fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/apple\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">Apple<\/a> fans out.<\/p>\n<p>That won&#8217;t be the case anymore.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/welcome\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">announced<\/a> that it would be closing down the Apple Support Community, the official forum for Apple customers looking for help from other Apple users with their Apple products.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apple disabled posting in the Apple Support Community on Tuesday. The platform is still viewable in a read-only state.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/apple-shutting-down-support-community-forums\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever had a problem with your MacBook, iPhone , or Apple account, a quick Google search for a fix likely sent you to a relevant thread on the Apple Support Community at discussions.apple.com, where Apple customers tried to help their fellow Apple fans out. That won&#8217;t be the case anymore. On Tuesday, Apple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-51108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}