Apple Support Community Forums are shutting down
As of Tuesday, new forum posts cannot be made to Apple's Support Community Forums and the entire website will be closed on November 20. Apple did not provide a reason for the closure. The likely reason for closing the forums is due to the emergence of communities like Reddit and Discord on top of LLM use. Apple Support also uses artificial intelligence to parse queries. The good news is, AppleInsider will continue to offer detailed articles on how to solve any problem, plus you can use our forums to ask for help from our staff and many knowledgeable forum members. https://discussions.apple.com/welcome Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
What happened?
As of Tuesday, new forum posts cannot be made to Apple's Support Community Forums and the entire website will be closed on November 20. Apple did not provide a reason for the closure. The likely reason for closing the forums is due to the emergence of communities like Reddit and Discord on top of LLM use. Apple Support also uses artificial intelligence to parse queries. The good news is, AppleInsider will continue to offer detailed articles on how to solve any problem, plus you can use our forums to ask for help from our staff and many knowledgeable forum members. https://discussions.apple.com/welcome Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Story details
As of Tuesday, new forum posts cannot be made to Apple's Support Community Forums and the entire website will be closed on November 20.
Apple did not provide a reason for the closure.
The likely reason for closing the forums is due to the emergence of communities like Reddit and Discord on top of LLM use.
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