Apple Discontinues Its Clips Video App
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– Apple has discontinued its video-editing app Clips, which allowed users to create enhanced videos with voice titles, music, and graphics for social media sharing.
– The app has been removed from the App Store and is no longer available for download by new users, though existing users can still use and redownload it.
– Apple confirmed that Clips will no longer receive updates and provided guidance on how users can save their videos and clips to their photo library or other locations.
– Clips was first released in 2017 and received multiple updates in its early years, adding features like Memoji, Animoji, LiDAR Scanner support, and various filters.
– In recent years, the app has only received occasional bug-fix updates, with no major feature additions leading up to its discontinuation.
Apple has officially pulled the plug on its video creation tool, Clips, removing it from the App Store and halting all future updates. The app, which let users produce polished videos by mixing clips, photos, voice captions, and music for social sharing, is no longer available to new customers. This marks the end of a product that once promised to simplify video storytelling for iPhone and iPad owners.
A support page on Apple’s website confirms the change, noting that Clips will not receive further software improvements and cannot be downloaded by anyone who didn’t already install it. People who have the app on their devices can keep using it for the time being, and it remains accessible for redownload through their purchase history. Apple has also provided instructions to help existing users export their Clips projects and save videos directly to their photo libraries or other storage.
Launched in 2017, Clips received a series of notable updates during its first few years. It gained compatibility with Memoji and Animoji characters, incorporated LiDAR Scanner technology to build augmented reality scenes, and expanded its collection of visual filters and graphics. However, development slowed significantly in recent times, with only sporadic maintenance releases aimed at fixing bugs rather than introducing new capabilities.
(Source: Mac Rumors)
