

Starting in June 2021, the KB4577586 “Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player” will be included in the Preview Update for Windows 10, version 1809 and above platforms. To help keep our customers secure, Microsoft will remove the Flash component from Windows through the KB4577586 “Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player”.

The company has published uninstall instructions for both Windows and Mac users.

While some operating systems and browsers have already discontinued Flash, Adobe is encouraging people to check that Flash Player is uninstalled on their devices immediately “to help protect their systems,” because it will no longer be getting security updates. That fell to just 17% by 2017.Īdobe announced its plan to discontinue support for Flash three years ago - and the program’s “end-of-life” day finally came on December 31. In 2014, 80% of Google Chrome users visited a site with Flash code. As HTML5 began to overtake Flash, usage dwindled.
