Officially GoneINTERNET & TECH

iWeb

Apple gave Mac owners a drag-and-drop website builder tied to MobileMe, then stopped development just as iCloud replaced the hosting it was designed around.

HOW CLOSE TO REALITY100/100
CATEGORYInternet & Tech
LIFECYCLE2006—2011
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Quick facts

Existence state
Officially Gone
Peak stage
general availability
Research confidence
high
Last verified
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What it was

A formally released visual website-authoring application included with Apple's iLife suite.

Users assembled sites, blogs, photo galleries and podcasts from templates and published them to MobileMe or other hosts.

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Existence timeline

iWeb announced

Apple adds website creation to iLife '06.

Templates and publishing expand

Successive iLife releases refine the application.

Final bundled release

iLife '11 ships with the last iWeb version.

Development ending confirmed

The iCloud transition leaves iWeb without a successor.

MobileMe hosting closes

One-click Apple-hosted sites disappear unless moved.

Modern macOS drops 32-bit apps

Current systems can no longer run iWeb natively.

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Why it ended

Apple ceased development in 2011 and ended MobileMe hosting in 2012, leaving the 32-bit application behind.

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Last confirmed trace

Install media, locally saved projects, exported websites and Apple's documentation preserve the software.
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What it left behind

iWeb remains a remembered example of consumer-friendly site creation before hosted no-code builders became common.

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How we classified it

The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.

Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.

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Sources & verification

Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.

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