FAQ Schema Still on Your Pages? Export Your Search Console Data Before June

Google stopped showing FAQ rich results on May 7, 2026. 1 The feature is gone from search results pages. But the real trap isn't the deprecation itself — it's the three-stage sunset that will silently break your analytics dashboards if you do nothing.

Here is the exact sequence you need to act on this week.

What actually happened

Google added a deprecation notice to its FAQPage structured data documentation on May 8, 2026, confirming that FAQ rich results stopped appearing in Google Search results one day earlier, on May 7. 2

The full removal timeline runs in three phases:

Phase	Date	What disappears
Rich results removed	May 7, 2026	FAQ dropdowns no longer show in Google Search
Search Console reporting removed	June 2026	FAQ filter, FAQ rich result report, Rich Results Test support all end
Search Console API removed	August 2026	`searchType=FAQ` calls return NULL silently

SEO analytics dashboard on a laptop screen showing search performance metrics — Search Console performance view — the pattern many sites see after a feature deprecation affects click-through rates 3

The August deadline is the one that bites developers who automated dashboards. If your BigQuery or Looker Studio pipeline pulls the FAQ row from the Search Console API, you will not get an error — you will get zeros, and your CTR calculations will quietly break. 2

The one action that has a hard deadline: export your historical data now

Search Console's FAQ rich result report is being removed in June 2026. Once it's gone, there's no retroactive export.

Before the June cutoff:

Open Search Console → Performance → Search Results
Add a filter: Search appearance → FAQ rich result
Set the date range back at least 12 months
Click Export (CSV or Google Sheets)

developers.google.comhttps://developers.google.com/search/updates外部链接

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This is the only baseline you'll have for any before-and-after CTR analysis. Sites that used to occupy the FAQ dropdown earned extra SERP real estate — losing it may have shifted your click-through rate on those pages. Without the export, you can't measure that shift.

Should you remove FAQ schema from your pages?

No, unless the markup no longer matches the page. Google has stated that unused structured data does not cause Search problems. 4 FAQPage is still a valid Schema.org type, and Bing, Perplexity, and other AI crawlers still parse it. 2

Remove the markup only if:

The schema describes questions or answers that are no longer on the page (mismatched schema is a quality signal liability)
The FAQ section was tacked on purely to trigger the rich result, the content is thin, and neither users nor the page topic need it

In the second case, deleting the section itself is the more meaningful fix — not just removing the markup.

Fix your QA automation

If your test suite or CI pipeline runs the Rich Results Test as a pass/fail check for FAQ dropdowns, remove that check now. Rich Results Test support for FAQ ends in June 2026. Replacing it with a generic structured-data validator that checks schema accuracy (not "will this produce a dropdown") is the right move.

What this change signals for your content strategy

This is not the first feature Google removed for this reason. HowTo rich results were deprecated from desktop in September 2023. Seven other structured data types — Book Actions, Course Info, Claim Review, Estimated Salary, Learning Video, Special Announcement, Vehicle Listing — were retired in June 2025 on the same rationale: features that get aggressively exploited by SEO tooling and stop faithfully describing the page eventually get pulled. 2