FAQ schema is still valid markup, even though it no longer earns a rich result
Google sharply restricted FAQ rich results in August 2023 to a small set of "well-known, authoritative government and health websites," then fully retired the FAQ rich result feature across all of Search starting May 7, 2026 - including for the government and health sites that had kept it after the 2023 restriction. Adding FAQPage structured data to a page no longer produces the visible expandable Q&A snippet it once did in search results, for any site.
That said, Schema.org's FAQPage markup remains valid structured data, and unused structured data doesn't harm a page. This tool builds a complete FAQPage JSON-LD block with as many question-and-answer pairs as you need, which still has value for machine-readable content structure and for other platforms or AI systems that may parse structured data independently of Google's own rich-result eligibility rules.
Why this feature was restricted and then phased out entirely
Google's stated reasoning for the 2023 restriction was reducing commercial bias in a feature used for sensitive, high-stakes queries - prioritizing information from authoritative government and health sources over any business that happened to implement the schema. In May 2026, Google went further and retired the rich result altogether, even for the government and health sites the 2023 restriction had carved out, as part of broader changes to how Search displays structured content.
What actually still comes from adding this markup today
Beyond the Google-specific rich result that's now completely gone, structured FAQ data can still help other systems that parse a page's content programmatically understand its question-and-answer structure - and having the visible on-page FAQ content itself (which this schema should always match) remains genuinely useful for human readers and general SEO regardless of any one rich-result feature's fate.
Why the visible content still has to match the schema
Google's own guidance has always required that structured FAQ data match content that's actually visible to users on the page, not hidden markup-only content - that principle hasn't changed, and matching visible content to structured data remains good practice independent of whether any particular platform currently renders a special result from it.