Apple’s basic iTunes Film Trailers app for iOS is miraculously nonetheless round, however MacRumors reports that it received’t be for for much longer. The more-than-decade-old app that lets individuals watch movie trailers and previews and get movie show showtimes will quickly wind down. However Apple received’t be getting out of the trailer screening enterprise. As an alternative, primarily based on a brand new banner showing on the highest of the Trailers app, it seems the trailers will find yourself within the Apple TV app.
“Apple TV app is the brand new residence of iTunes Film Trailers,” reads the banner on the highest of the growing old Film Trailers app. The identical banner message additionally exists on the highest of the basic iTunes Film Trailers website, which remains to be dwell and retains a blast-from-the-past circa-2009 Apple internet design. In accordance with MacRumors, this banner first appeared on August ninth.
Should you’re nonetheless searching for trailers, The Verge was in a position to confirm that there’s a brand new “Film and TV Trailers” part inside the Apple TV app’s Retailer menu, however it’s a bit hidden — you’ll have to scroll far down within the Retailer menu to seek out the Film and TV Trailers icon.
Confusingly, the basic Film Trailers app can be nonetheless accessible on Apple TV as effectively, and it too shows the banner. Which suggests these apps in all probability aren’t sticking round for much longer.
The iTunes Film Trailers app has definitely been displaying its age. It has some older Apple software program design parts, and with darkish mode activated, many headers seem barely readable. The app, which initially launched in 2011, stemmed from Apple’s Y2K-era Quicktime Film Trailers web site, which was the place individuals would go to observe high-quality variations of trailers earlier than YouTube arrived and made enjoying movies instantly within the browser simple and constantly viewable.
Personally, I used to make use of this app on a regular basis to get film showtimes, however that function appears to have damaged in some unspecified time in the future, because the app doesn’t populate all of the movies my native theater is displaying. As of proper now, choosing Barbie within the new Apple TV Trailers expertise takes you straight to a preorder display screen asking to cough up $24.99, with no choices for showings in your space. So I wouldn’t maintain out hope for the {old} film showtimes function to stay round on this new iteration.