Yes it’s terrible how Steve Jobs restructured the company after his return… 😂
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Apple's Clips App Discontinued
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Apples biggest problem (apart from RAM and storage pricing) are the MILLIONS of functions nobody knows about.
Next iTunes (yes it still comes with the phone), GarageBand, iMovie, Journal, Freeform. Most of them are neglected and still come pre installed with the iPhone and its annoying. Clips, iMovie and Final Cut can be combined into one App, GarageBand and Logic can be combined, Apple Music and iTunes can be one App and Notes, Freeform and Journals can be one App. And why do I need iWork pre installed on my iPhone?
I used it twice and didn’t think it had a future. To this day still haven’t downloaded invites.
I despise Office with every strand of my DNA.
But with yet another suite apparently fading away (remember AppleWorks before it), no wonder the world puts up with MS. It's like Apple approaches productivity the same way as gaming: a big new initiative and headlines, then gets left to languish.
Now its no longer the consumer and pro approach. They've taken the fast food restaurant/marketing approach. Small, medium, large. From a device perspective, it failed because two of the three devices always fail, while the pro device sells best (see iPhone or iPad). Maybe that's the plan, but that would also be the case if they only offered consumer and pro devices. They try by all means to release three products for each product category, even if it doesn't make sense or the strategy repeatedly fails (Mini, Plus, Air).
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No idea why you got a dislike, completely valid response and is entirely true. The way a company works is separation and division of labor (divide and conquer) sometimes that causes one of the divisions to not know what the other is doing.
Optimizing every product category to the max to squeeze out every penny works in the short term, but can have fatal consequences in the long term if others companies have a better strategy and push for new things. We are already seeing the first negative effects that the Tim Cook approach will not work long term.
Its on my iPhone, I never installed it and I discovered it now because I read this article.
Great post thx.
I think the approach to software is slightly incoherent as it’s split between different teams at Apple.
I believe that iWork is with Eddie cue, bizarrely enough. But maybe that’s fitting as his portfolio does seem to be a grab bag of items. It would be better if he was just in charge of revenue generating services maybe.
I suspect that they aren't one app on purpose. Some people (like me) still buy music. Apple knows they don't want the store easily accessible from the Music app, but they still want the revenue from the store. Thus, two apps. I don't see that changing soon (if it does, then I would expect them to unhide the store by default in the desktop app).
I didn’t mean to take away the ability to buy albums and songs but combining the two apps into one like you can subscribe and also buy movies on the Apple TV app. Buy the music in the Apple music app or subscribe and have access to all the music.
Clips was a bit odd. But the Invites app? It’s a strange thing to dedicate an entire app to making invitations. And how often would anyone actually use it? What’s the next app? Music iHate? The parsnip growing guide?
It should work - the support doc says it's possible. Maybe try again in a few hours/days in case Apple messed up.
Save your Clips videos - Apple Support
The Clips app is no longer being updated, and will no longer be available to download as of October 3, 2025. You can continue to use Clips on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.
They were one app back in the day. iTunes used to do everything. Then Apple bought Beats and decided to get into streaming. They took advantage of users thinking iTunes was a bloated mess and separated the store app from the music player and streaming app.
The other apps are split because of the old consumer vs pro model that Apple has operated under for years. I’m sure Final Cut and Logic users do not want the basic UIs and features of the consumer apps, and consumers don’t want to pay the prices for the pro apps.
They basically stole it anyhow.
It was the lowest effort way possible to try to add a bullet point to the iCloud "feature" list.
Ha. But I like Invites. Very useful if you have kids and a much better and less intrusive free option vs Evites and Paperless. Although, I swear it could just be integrated into Calendar vs being a standalone app. Clips had so many more competing products in the app store.