Link to iMovie in Photo Library in iOS 15

A practical alternatives is to use Apple’s Clip app which is set up to make quick changes to your clip and save it in your photos library or export it.

keep in mind, the iMovie extension really only allowed you to trim the clip and add music. None of the movie making features were available through the extension.

Its a bit annoying because Apple took away a feature that didn’t really provide good user experience and didn’t disclose it to users.

my advice, use Clips to make on the go video edits.

To clarify, iOS used to have an iMovie extension available when editing a clip in the Photos app. An extension allows a set of features from one app to be accessible from within another app. In this case, there was an iMovie extension available from within Photos that allowed users access to trim clips and add music but not the full feature set of iMovie.

I too am frustrated Apple removed access to iMovie features within Photos because most of the time I just want to trim and add music to movies without going through the process of creating a project in iMovie.

Photos still has extensions but they’re limited to still photo editing features not movie editing.

please go to this page and request the feature be re-added: https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos/

You can force the iPhone to download the latest compatible version. You must go to your Account on the App Store, then access the Purchased list. Click on My Purchases and select Not on this iPhone. Search for iMovie and ask to download. It you prompt a message that the latest version is incompatible with your device, but it will allow you to download the latest compatible version from there. Hope that helps...

Ah. Just figured it out. The native Clips app is all about doing this sort of thing.

Don’t feel bad about the upgrade. I didn’t upgrade and the feature was not working. I called Apple support and they told me it’s not working because I didn’t upgrade. Well… after the upgrade the three … disappeared all together.

Im calling Apple as we speak.

Perhaps everyone here should do the same. If enough of us complain maybe they will fix it.

wasted untold-time hunting down a 2nd iphone to purchase that was still on ios14, presuming would use solely for this feature (video-editing) alone. the "..." is indeed still present in the Photos app - great! continue to setup phone and then go to download iMovie from the app store. sure enough, a popup prompt states "This application requires ios15 or later" - and will not allow you to install on ios14. i give up

Are you on iOS 14 or 15? Because that will only work on an older version of iOS, like iOS 14. That will force the App Store to download an older version of iMovie compatible with iOS 14 that maybe have the link to iMovie in Photo Library. That might work on the case commented by relaxedstability, that found an iPhone that is on iOS 14. But I'm just guessing here. All my devices are updated to iOS 15 and I can't test it for sure. My link is still missing too. I'm just relying on my previous experiences with downloading older compatible versions of an app. I hope it helps.

success. first time i created a new apple id/account - which would not let me download imovie from the app store and instead instructed me to upgrade to ios15 first. wiped the phone and setup again this time with my main/primary phone (ios15) account (logged in on both phones), and it allowed me to download imovie from the app store on ios14 and the original functionality to edit videos in Photos App via imovie extension has been restored. unfortunate i had to purchase a 2nd phone to solely-use dedicated for video editing/this feature.

I used this feature all the time and after paying a boatload of money for the pro13 and have it taken away is bs.. apple, please fix this! This was a great way to edit, please put the extension back in the photos app.

Please bring it back!

It’s the one function i use the most because it quick and simple.

i have LumaFusion, A HASSLE for small edits like trimming or adding music. I wish it was also present in photos app as an option.

On that note,why apple photos or pixelmator photo can edit without importing and LumaFusion can’t? unnecessarily bloats the ipad.

Thank you for clarifying it.

That's a shame...the iMovie link within Photos were so much more practical. All Android competition I know have some sort of quick edit within the gallery. I hope Apple reconsider this change.

I was wondering the exact same thing. I use it to edit videos of my son's hockey games and send the clips to the parents of the kids who score the goals. I liked how it would kick over to iMovie so I could add text to it.

This needs to come back.

I thought I was going crazy but I guess the new update for the iMovie really messed it up for all of us. I hate using the actual iMovie app because it takes more time and it really doesn’t show the full video size, it cuts parts of it and I dislike it. We need that iMovie option on the Photos back!!! What a shame!!!

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Clips it’s a waist of time!

I’ve tried it and it doesn’t work. Can’t export to the photos or the iMovie.

Besides the fact that you can arrange the pictures in any order you want (something you can actually do in iMovie) does nothing more then we could have done in the photo edit by only a few clicks.

I liked that I can add music right away to my videos and share them. Why waist my time exporting and importing and what not to achieve something so simple as adding a sound track to my video???

I’m thinking to switch to android , seriously!