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 not obtain it from the App Retailer. Present customers on iOS and iPadOS will proceed to have entry in the meanwhile, however the firm hasn’t mentioned how lengthy that can final. “If you happen to beforehand downloaded the Clips app, you possibly can nonetheless redownload it out of your Apple account within the App Retailer,” the help web page notes. 

Clips was introduced in 2017 and gives a bunch of enhancing instruments geared towards creating movies for social media. However Clips by no means actually caught on, and most of the options it boasts are just about commonplace fare on the social apps now. Apple has really useful that Clips customers save their  movies to their picture libraries or elsewhere, so in case you are one of many few customers hanging on, you need to in all probability go forward and do this earlier than it is too late.