Clips Discontinued
Apple has essentially discontinued Clips, its video-editing app designed to allow users to combine video clips, images, and photos with voice-based titles, music, filters, and graphics to create enhanced videos that can be shared on social media sites.
The app has been removed from the App Store, and a support document on Apple’s site says that the app is no longer being updated and would no longer be available for download for new users as of yesterday.
I never understood who Clips was for.
I would like someone at Apple to explain how the company that has the best smartphone video recording experience can’t make any good video editing apps for smartphones.
The effects, transitions and even transcribing titles in Clips were made in Motion.
Apple didn’t enable third-party toolmaking for Clips.
speaking of Apple video editors, iMovie hasn’t received new features for like three years …
Before it was pulled offline, it was most recently updated in May 2024.
I am truly curious about the likely lifespan of a few recent Apple apps. How much longer will Invites last? Sports seems like it could be around for longer, but I am a little worried about Classical, which still does not have a Mac app.
I remember covering Clips at the time of its introduction because, as ever, there were accessibility ties. To wit, Apple was boastful of the fact the app could generate real-time captions for its short-form videos; the captions were useful, of course, to Deaf and hard-of-hearing people so as to make dialogue more accessible and inclusive. Back then, I remember thinking how inspired it was given TikTok and Instagram Reels had yet to pervade the mainstream consciousness. Nowadays, the vast majority of these videos I see all have live captions enabled by default, and it’s heartening to notice the change as a lifelong disabled person who, coincidentally, has a level of congenital hearing loss.
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I used Clips a few times because iMovie somehow still doesn't support portrait video. Unfortunately from the get it had the smell of an app destined for the Apple dustbin.
Curious what people recommend for a lightweight, easy to use iPhone video editor when you need to quickly stitch together clips.
All the cool kids are on capcut, an app that exhausts me.
I used iMovie this summer for the first time in a long while and thought it needed some attention. I stil finns it weird that export is called share fex
