US EditionApple Retires Clips App: How to Save Your Videos, Who Can Still Use It and Key Alternatives
Apple ends support for Clips after eight years as niche app fails to compete with TikTok and Instagram Reels, leaving users with an unsupported version.
- On October 10, 2025 Apple announced it discontinued Clips, Apple's video-editing app, removing it from the App Store and ending updates.
- Launched in 2017, Clips was a mobile-first editor that in recent years saw only bug-fix updates and faded from Apple marketing.
- Design features such as a square aspect ratio and animated stickers and live titles shaped Clips, but critics called it `simple to a fault` as it failed to evolve or go viral.
- Existing users can still open Clips on installed devices, but there are no guarantees it will work beyond iOS 26, so many may export videos or switch to CapCut and Adobe Premiere Rush.
- Apple's move positions the company to streamline its software portfolio and cede short-form dominance to TikTok and Instagram Reels while Sora, OpenAI's generative AI video app, recently hit 1 million downloads.
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Apple retires Clips app: How to save your videos, who can still use it and key alternatives
Apple is retiring its Clips app, removing it from the App Store for new users as of October 10, 2025. Existing users on iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 can still use it. Apple advises saving videos with or without effects to Photos, iCloud, or third-party apps like iMovie.
Apple is winding down Clips, its forgotten video-editing app
It seems to be the end of the road for Apple's Clips app. The company said on a support page that it has stopped updating the video-editing app, and new users can no longer download it from the App Store. Existing users on iOS and iPadOS will continue to have access for the time being, but the company hasn't said how long that will last. "If you previously downloaded the Clips app, you can still redownload it from your Apple account in the App S…
Apple has removed its Clips app from the App Store and confirmed that it will not be updated again. The video editing tool, launched in 2017, allowed short clips to be created.
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