Quote:Google announced last year that it would shut down the company's social network Google+ for consumers but not for G Suite customers in 2019.

A privacy issue with the potential to leak user data and "challenges in creating and maintaining a successful Google+" were the reasons that Google provided at the time.

The company wanted to shut down Google+ in August 2019 initially but had to expedite the shutdown to April 2019 when it became clear that even more customers were potentially affected by privacy leaks.

Google published a support document on January 30, 2019 detailing the company's shutdown plans for Google+:

• February 4th, 2019 -- Options to create new Google+ profiles, Google+ pages, communities, or events are disabled.
  
  
• February 4th, 2019 -- Google+ commenting options on Blogger will be removed.
  
  
• coming weeks -- Google+ sign in buttons will be removed or replaced with Google Sign-in buttons
  
  
• early March 2019 -- Additional download options are provided that include author, body, and photos for community posts in public communities.
  
  
• March 7th, 2019 -- Google+ commenting options on other sites will be removed.
  
  
• April 2nd, 2019 -- Google+ account and Google+ pages will be shut down. Deletion of content from consumer Google+ accounts starts.
  

Full reading: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/31/google-shutdown-timeline-for-consumers/