Apple Says Goodbye To The Clips App

Apple appears to beryllium winding down support of Clips, pinch nan institution removing Clips from nan App Store and saying it will nary longer beryllium making immoderate updates.

In a support page connected nan Apple website, nan institution says that arsenic of October 10, Clips is nary longer disposable for caller users to download, but existing users tin proceed to usage nan app connected existent aliases earlier versions of iOS and iPadOS. Existing users tin besides re-download nan app from their Apple relationship if needed.

Without updates, it will astir apt go much difficult to usage Clips complete time, truthful Apple is encouraging users to download their Clips videos (with aliases without added effects) to their photograph library, truthful they tin watch and edit nan videos utilizing different apps.

Launched successful 2017, Clips appeared to beryllium Apple’s reply to Snapchat and Instagram Stories — it wasn’t a societal network, but it allowed users to stitch together photos and videos pinch filters, emojis, and music.

Early on, TechCrunch’s Brian Heater described Clips’ video editing capabilities arsenic simple to a fault and suggested that nan app could let Apple to showcase its hardware and package capabilities while offering users a way retired of past on-the-rise societal ecosystems.

MacRumors reports that while Apple upgraded Clips pinch caller features aft launch, updates successful caller years person been constricted to bug fixes.

Apple fans on Reddit seemed unsurprised by nan news, saying they’d only tried nan app years agone aliases ne'er heard of it astatine all. Plus, an app for illustration Clips — built astir existent footage changeable by existent group — mightiness consciousness a spot old-fashioned erstwhile compared to Sora, OpenAI’s generative AI video app that recently deed 1 cardinal downloads.