https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/apple-is-shuttering-its-28-year-old-online-community-forumContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/apple-is-shuttering-its-28-year-old-online-community-forumhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/apple-is-shuttering-its-28-year-old-online-community-forum#u201915Sun, 15 Nov 2026 06:57:11 +0000Apple will permanently shut down its Apple Support Community forum on November 20, 2026, ending 28 years of peer-to-peer troubleshooting. The forums will become read-only before closing entirely, removing a major DIY support resource for users. Apple has not announced a direct replacement for the community-driven knowledge base.Why it mattersThe forum launched in 1998 and grew into a vast repository of user-generated fixes for hardware and software issues. Its closure shifts support burden entirely to official Apple channels, which lack the crowdsourced depth for edge-case problems. Long-time