In addition, Adobe started blocking Flash content from running in Flash Player as of January 12, 2021.
Why did Adobe decide to end Flash support? As stated in the Flash and Future of Interactive Content article, Adobe stated this as the reason: ' To encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.' Here is a resource link from Microsoft support originally posted on September 9, 2019: Adobe Flash end of support on Decem(direct URL:.Here is a resource link from the adobe community blog originally posted on July 25, 2017: Flash & The Future of Interactive Content (direct URL: ).
Along with Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have also announced that their Flash plug-ins will be disabled by default in conjunction with the end of Flash support. As of December 31, 2020, Adobe no longer supports, updates and distributes the Flash player plug-in.Ĭreated in Canva What Happened With Adobe Flash? Should We Say Goodbye to Flash?Īdobe made an announcement in 2017 that by 2020, they will no longer support the flash player plug-in.