To better protect your Salesforce org’s data, you can no longer disable the external sharing model after it’s enabled in your org.

Where: This change applies to Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic in Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer editions.

How: The external sharing model allows you to customize the access levels for internal and external users. We recommend setting org-wide defaults to Private for external users.

From Setup, enter Sharing Settings in the Quick Find box, then select Sharing Settings. Under Organization-Wide Defaults, edit the Default Internal and External Access as required by your business needs.

https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_forcecom_sharing_ext_owds_disabled.htm&release=224&type=5

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