End of the applause for the clips? Apple has just announced that it is ending Clips, its video editing and creation application, which offered to easily integrate fun effects, emojis and other automatic subtitles, etc. to your videos.
After a slow downtime, during which Clips received few updates, the app has been removed from the App Store since October 10. New users will no longer be able to download it. On the other hand, if you have used it in the past, you can download it again on your iPhone or iPad, with iOS 26 or iPadOS 26. Clips should continue to work in this version of Apple’s operating systems, but the American giant is not betting on the future.
Apple explains that you can, of course, recover and view your videos in your photo library, but you should especially export them to third-party video apps, such as InShot, VN Video Editor, or GoPro Quik.
The forgotten places of small failures or big disappointments?
Launched in 2017, Clips has failed to find its place in a world where Instagram and Tiktok have largely established themselves. It was unable to provide the creative capabilities that would have allowed it to become an essential link in the social media production chain.
Apple’s attempts to find its place under the sun in the social media ecosystem have not always been successful. The most attentive probably remember Ping, a social and musical attempt integrated into iTunes, which later took on a gas factory air.
Away from social networks, Apple still has another video editing application, iMovie. It hasn’t been updated on iOS for nine months. And this was to fix a bug that must have been introduced with the previous update, which was ten months old.
Beyond its core apps, like Mail, Safari, and Maps, Apple seems to have some difficulty finding success. Who remembers Warren Buffett’s Paper Wizard, a kind of Paper Boy revisited? The same goes for Texas Hold’em, a poker game that accompanied the launch of the App Store in July 2008 and has not been updated for six years… But at least it is still available for download…
Source: BFM TV
