Take your first steps to becoming the next Mr Beast, or make your vacation recap more bearable to watch, by using iMovie. Here's how to get started using it on iPhone and iPad.

iMovie is free in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. Video is a type of media that most of the world enjoys every day. It's a fantastic tool for sharing ideas and experiences with others, and in a way that can be much easier to digest than text or photographs alone.

Social Media has a massive appetite for video, with almost all platforms focusing on the medium. It's also something you must master if you want to get seen online in 2026. You can get by with simply recording something with your iPhone's camera and uploading it to YouTube straight away. Likewise, there's nothing stopping you from talking to camera and shoving it on TikTok and immediately be viewed by others.

That said, you will almost certainly want to upload something that is a lot more polished than raw footage. For social media, that can be as simple as cutting out the silences and filler words in your speech. Maybe you want to add graphics and filters to inform the viewer or to keep things visually entertaining. It could even be as simple as splicing together a few clips to give an overview of something that's happened. Not everyone wants to watch a two-hour, slow-paced vacation video, when a snappy ten-minute summary could be so much better. This is where iMovie comes in. This article covers the iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 versions of iMovie. The app is also available for macOS 27 Golden Gate.