{"id":49614,"date":"2025-10-12T20:18:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49614"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:48:36","slug":"clips-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/12\/clips-discontinued\/","title":{"rendered":"Clips Discontinued"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Slivka<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>

The app has been removed from the App Store<\/a>, and a support document on Apple’s site<\/a> says that the app is no longer being updated and would no longer be available for download for new users as of yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Deeje Cooley<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I never understood who Clips was for.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Joe Rosensteel<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Alex Gollner<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The effects, transitions and even transcribing titles in Clips were made in Motion.<\/p>

Apple didn’t enable third-party toolmaking for Clips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

speaking of Apple video editors, iMovie hasn’t received new features for like three years …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Before it was pulled offline, it was most recently updated<\/a> in May 2024.<\/p>

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Steven Aquino<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n