Google has been quietly trimming its list of supported schema types and the latest round of removals is significant enough that every site owner should audit their structured data this week.
Google dropped support for several schema types from its rich results. By removing support for several types, Google is streamlining its search results and sending a clear message: focus your efforts where they actually matter.
The FAQ rich results stopped appearing in search results on May 7, 2026. June 2026 marks the removal of the FAQ search appearance filter and rich result reporting from Search Console.
This does not mean you need to delete your FAQ schema code. You do not need to remove the code as it will not cause errors or affect rankings. However it is best practice to audit structured data after a Google update and remove or replace any unused markup to keep your code clean and manageable.
Reddit’s r/Tech SEO at https://www.reddit.com/r/TechSEO/ has a thread running on exactly this question — remove the deprecated schema or leave it. The technical consensus is to leave it for AI systems but stop treating it as a Google rich result strategy.
What to Focus on Instead
By prioritizing the core schema types — Product, Local Business, FAQ, and Article — and investing in E-E-A-T-compliant content, businesses will not only survive these updates but thrive in the more streamlined, entity-focused search landscape of 2026.
The opportunity in the removals is real. Every competitor who was relying on FAQ rich results for click-through rate is now on the same footing as you. The sites that pivot fastest to the schema types that still work — and add Organization and Person schema with SameAs identifiers for entity resolution — are the ones that will pull ahead in both traditional rankings and AI search visibility.
X at https://x.com/search?q=Google+schema+deprecated+2026 has technical SEOs sharing their audit results after checking sites for deprecated markup. The cleanest sites are already seeing better crawl efficiency as a side benefit of removing unused structured data.
Quora at https://www.quora.com/Which-schema-types-does-Google-still-support-in-2026 has a current and detailed answer listing all active versus deprecated schema types with practical guidance on what to do with each.
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