Apple officially kills Clips app, ends updates after seven years

Apple has officially discontinued its Clips app, which is no longer available on the App ￰0￱ company confirmed it will not release any new updates for the ￰1￱ who have Clips installed can continue to use it on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 or earlier operating system ￰2￱ will no longer receive new updates Since Apple will no longer release new updates to Clips, it will become difficult to use the app in the ￰3￱ recommends that users save their Clips videos to the Photo library or other storage ￰4￱ can save the videos with effects included , or they can download them without any ￰5￱ said users can make new videos using their clips through iMovie or pivot to other third-party ￰6￱ company recommended third-party apps like InShot, VN Video Editor, and GoPro Quik to create new ￰7￱ released Clips back in 2017 in an attempt to compete with Snapchat and Instagram ￰8￱ was an app that let users apply filters, use music, or stitch photos, but it wasn’t a social media ￰9￱ the years, Apple upgraded Clips and added new features to the app, but later on, the company limited its updates to bug fixes.

Apple’s subreddit users were not surprised by the discontinuation of ￰10￱ user wrote, “Makes sense. Didn’t even know it existed.” Another user said that he tried the app a long time ago and found it confusing. A top 1% comment on Reddit voices his input and said Clips is probably a single developer ￰11￱ gave an example and said, “Apple iTunes Remote was originally an app made by one ￰12￱ its TV functionality is part of the control center and he’s kinda done.” Video editing and creation tools have evolved quickly thanks to artificial ￰13￱ like Sora from OpenAI and Veo3 from Google are super popular right ￰14￱ recently surpassed 1 million downloads on the App Store, while Veo 3 has over 500,000 downloads on Google ￰15￱ is not the first time Apple has discontinued some of its iOS or macOS ￰16￱ 2015, Apple said goodbye to Newsstand, an app designed for downloading and displaying digital versions of newspaper and magazine content on iPhone, iPad, and iPod ￰17￱ company replaced the app with Apple News with the release of iOS 9, which offered a unified reading ￰18￱ the years, Apple has phased out several other apps, including iPhoto, Aperture, iDVD, iWeb, and Baby Shaker, a controversial gaming app released in 2009 that simulated shaking a baby to silence ￰19￱ faced massive backlash at the time and removed the app just two days after its ￰20￱ seen where it ￰21￱ in Cryptopolitan Research and reach crypto’s sharpest investors and builders.