Clips can push your iPhone or iPad's camera capabilities to the extreme. You've probably read Apple's promotional material ...

An App Clip would be perfect for that situation, as you could simply hold your iPhone up to an NFC tag, use Apple Pay to pay your parking toll, and be done. These kind of on-the-go situations are ...

Despite that, many apps and features on iPhone toe the line between fun tool and social platform. One of those tools was Clips, which arrived in 2017 to little fanfare and has been forgotten since.

But then a listener suggested something totally different and amazing: a prototype App Clip that uses your iPhone’s camera to create gradients. It isn’t a complete app. For instance, you can’t save a ...