iMovie stopped working after last update on 12/05/2024

Apple, can you please fix this bug. I need to get into this app.

SETTINGS➡️GENERAL➡️TRANSFER OR RESET IPHONE➡️RESET➡️RESET LOCATION AND PRIVACY.

This update has effectively and completely locked my daughter out of the app on her iPad Air M2. We have tried everything, short of deleting the app and losing all her work, and nothing works. Please fix this ASAP! Either fix the problem or re-release the earlier version—at least that one was useable.

This worked for me…

SETTINGS➡️GENERAL➡️TRANSFER OR RESET IPHONE➡️RESET➡️RESET LOCATION AND PRIVACY.

Doesn’t seem to work. Apple seems to be releasing more and more faulty updates instead of checking them thoroughly first, very sad to see happening to them/us. And this is still not fixed!

HERE’S THE FIX!!!! Everyone Follow this: SETTINGS GENERAL/TRANSFER OR RESET/IPHONE RESET/RESET LOCATION AND PRIVACY. humuhumuhumu shared this in another post and it works. I had the same problem and contacted Apple. They had no clue. I stumbled onto this link iMovie needed permission - Apple Community while on the phone and informed the specialist. She asked for the discussion title, found the page (iMovie needed permission - Apple Community), and instructed me to follow the steps. I did and was able to get into iMovie. It’s dumb what Apple has done without any rhyme or reason.

Lost everything also. All that work!!! For some reason the update deleted iMovie iCloud folder which I thought would have them backed up. But if the app is able to delete an iCloud folder then what else can be deleted without you knowing. iCloud is meant to be the backup! After support suggested I uninstall the app and reinstall, it resulted in the iMovie folder on the phone being deleted also which I had backed up the exported Final Cut movies as backup. Now these are gone! Tried erasing phone to restore a previous back up but found out Apple don’t have many backups to chose from and still can’t find iMovie folder. Even though I checked before I erased phone that there was a backup from 24hrs ago, it did not appear when I reinstalled the phone. If you have anything still from iMovie then try and copy to a safe place until they can sort it out?

someone on reddit suggested resetting location & privacy settings, seems to have worked for some people but not sure what else this resets

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I reset my location and privacy and it worked! All of my projects are still there!

I’m having the same issue, have permissions for photos, no where to give permissions for music. Pressed continues. And it just set there, restarted iPad, still the same. It works on the iPhone with no problem . Please resolve so I can work on my projects and meet my deadlines.

OH MY, that worked. Thank you so much! all my data is still there. Whoop Whoop.

Thank you & have a great day.

To all other people, I tried reinstalling the app on my iphone as I didn’t have important projects on that device. This will delete your data. The reset of privacy and location did not delete anything in my case.

I have the same problem how can u solve it ? Who do we need to contact?

i didn’t lose anything. I still have projects from 2019.

All it does is reset your privacy permissions.

Exactly. Ours works on the phone but not the iPad.