# ARCore Cloud Anchor API deprecation policy

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** The following deprecation policy applies only to apps built using **ARCore SDK 1.12.0 or later** and their use of the **ARCore Cloud Anchor API** , or the **ARCore Cloud Anchor service** . Apps built with **ARCore SDK 1.11.0 and earlier** will not be able to host or resolve Cloud Anchors beginning January 2021 due to the SDK's use of an older, deprecated version of the ARCore Cloud Anchor API.

Should Google decide to discontinue support for the services and functionality
provided by Cloud Anchors and the [ARCore Cloud Anchor API](https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/cloud-anchors) introduced in ARCore 1.12.0, Google will announce this decision in the [ARCore release notes](https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/downloads#arcore-sdks) and in [What's New in ARCore](https://developers.google.com/ar/whatsnew-arcore), and make commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate these services for one year after that announcement.

However, Google may discontinue support earlier if it decides, in its reasonable good-faith judgment, that it is required to do so by law, third-party relationship, security risk, or substantial economic or material technical burden. Google makes no such commitment with respect to Cloud Anchors and the AR Cloud Anchor API as supported prior to ARCore 1.12.0, in which the device uploads the 3D feature map to the ARCore Cloud Anchor API.