Apple is winding down Clips, its forgotten video-editing app

It appears to be the top of the street for Apple’s Clips app. The corporate stated on a support page that it has stopped updating the video-editing app, and new customers can not obtain it from the App Retailer. Present customers on iOS and iPadOS will proceed to have entry in the intervening time, however the firm hasn’t stated how lengthy that may final. “In the event you beforehand downloaded the Clips app, you may nonetheless redownload it out of your Apple account within the App Retailer,” the assist web page notes. 

Clips was introduced in 2017 and presents a bunch of enhancing instruments geared towards creating movies for social media. However Clips by no means actually caught on, and lots of the options it boasts are just about commonplace fare on the social apps now. Apple has advisable that Clips customers save their  movies to their photograph libraries or elsewhere, so if you’re one of many few customers hanging on, it’s best to most likely go forward and do this earlier than it is too late.