Apple is winding down its classic iTunes Movie Trailers app

red iphone 13 mini running the itunes movie trailer app with a banner that reads apple tv app is the new home of itunes movie trailers, and the movies on the top row are 3 days in Malay, dicks the musical, and satanic hispanics.
The-long standing iTunes Movie Trailer app with an ominous banner on top. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge

Apple’s classic iTunes Movie Trailers app for iOS is miraculously still around, but MacRumors reports that it won’t be for much longer. The more-than-decade-old app that lets people watch film trailers and previews and get movie theater showtimes will soon wind down. But Apple won’t be getting out of the trailer screening business. Instead, based on a new banner appearing on the top of the Trailers app, it appears the trailers will end up in the Apple TV app.

“Apple TV app is the new home of iTunes Movie Trailers,” reads the banner on the top of the aging Movie Trailers app. The same banner message also exists on the top of the classic iTunes Movie Trailers website, which is still live and retains a blast-from-the-past circa-2009 Apple...

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