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 mentioned on a support page that it has stopped updating the video-editing app, and new customers can now not obtain it from the App Retailer. Present customers on iOS and iPadOS will proceed to have entry in the interim, however the firm hasn’t mentioned how lengthy that can final. “If you happen to beforehand downloaded the Clips app, you’ll be able to nonetheless redownload it out of your Apple account within the App Retailer,” the help web page notes. 

Clips was introduced in 2017 and provides a number of modifying 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 customary fare on the social apps now. Apple has really helpful that Clips customers save their  movies to their picture libraries or elsewhere, so in case you are one of many few customers hanging on, it’s best to in all probability go forward and do this earlier than it is too late.