As of May 2026, FAQ schema no longer earns a rich result for any site. Google removed the expandable question-and-answer listings from search results outright, closing a feature it had already cut back hard in August 2023, when it limited FAQ rich results to a narrow set of well-known government and health sites. For most pages the visible result had been gone for nearly three years; the recent change ends it for the remaining sites too. If you added FAQ markup to win those dropdowns, that return is no longer there.
The markup itself is not worthless, which is the part worth keeping straight. Google has indicated it will go on using FAQ structured data to understand a page even though it no longer renders the rich result, and unused structured data causes no problems, so there is no need to strip it out in a panic. What changed is narrow and specific: FAQ schema stopped being a lever for extra space in Google’s search listings. It was never the schema driving the value anyway; clear question-and-answer content does that work, and AI answer surfaces pull from clean Q&A whether the markup is present or not.
So stop counting on FAQ schema to earn rich snippets, and keep it only where it still does something, on pages whose content is genuinely shaped as questions and answers and benefits from being machine-readable. One caveat: this area moves, and the dates above are the current picture as of mid-2026, so check Google’s structured data documentation for the live status before you build a plan around it instead of leaning on a guide that may have aged.