Apple has officially started to stop supporting the Clips app, its stand-alone video editing app. The company quietly took the app off the App Store and said it would not get any more updates. This marked the demise of a tool that aimed to simplify and enhance the enjoyment of creating videos for social media.
The official change went into effect on October 10, 2025, and new users could no longer download Clips. If you already have the app on a device running iOS 26, iPadOS 26, or an earlier version, you can still use it for now. Users who have already bought it can also download it again from their purchase history in the App Store.
A look back at the Clips App
Apple came out with the Clips app in 2017 to compete with the growing trend of short, shareable videos on sites like Snapchat and Instagram Stories. The app didn’t have a social network, but it made it easy for users to put together photos and videos with filters, animated captions called “Live Titles,” music, emoji, and augmented reality effects that added personality. Its main feature was its simplicity, which made it possible to make videos without complicated timelines or editing tools.
Over the years, the Clips app got a lot of great updates, like support for Memoji and Animoji and advanced AR effects that used the LiDAR scanner on some iPads and iPhones. The app had a fantastic start, with hundreds of thousands of downloads in the first few days. However, its updates recently have mostly been bug fixes, and it hasn’t been able to stay at the top of the competitive mobile video editing market.
Save your creations before it’s too late
The app will probably stop working with future versions of iOS over time if it doesn’t get any updates. Apple is actively telling users to save their Clips videos so they don’t lose them.
You have two main ways to keep your work safe. The “Save Video” or “Save to Files” options in the Share menu let you save the whole video, with all of its effects, to your device’s photo library or to a place like iCloud Drive. If you want the original raw footage without any changes, you can also open a project, choose a clip, and use the “Save Clip” option to keep the original video in your Photos app.
Apple’s support page lists a number of other apps that can be used to edit videos, such as its own iMovie and third-party apps like InShot, VN Video Editor, and GoPro Quik. The end of the Clips app shows how challenging it is for standalone creative apps to compete in a market that is now full of powerful AI-driven video generators and social media tools that work together.
