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How to Combine Videos on iPhone
With Actions
- Install Actions, and open it once.
- In the Shortcuts app, tap the add button to make a new shortcut.
- Add the “Select Photos” action. Tap the arrow in the action, and turn on “Select Multiple”.
- Add the “Combine Videos” action of Actions. It gets the selected videos.
- Add the “Save to Photo Album” action.
- Run the shortcut, and pick the videos. The combined video is saved in Photos.
The videos must have the same size and orientation, like videos that you recorded in the same way with your iPhone. Actions does not change the video when it can, so the quality stays the same. If the actions do not show in Shortcuts, restart your iPhone.
The “Combine Audio Files” action of Actions joins audio files the same way.
Get Actions
Additional actions for the Shortcuts app
Free
- Platforms
- macOS, iOS, visionOS
- Requires
- macOS, iOS, or visionOS 26 or later
- Category
- Utilities
- Released
- October 2021
- Privacy
- No personal data collected
- Updated
- June 2026
- Version
- 4.2.0
- Size
- 29 MB
- US App Store rating
- 4.8/5 (529 ratings)
Without an app
iPhone has no built-in way to combine videos. The Photos app can trim a video, but not join two. Apple’s free iMovie app can: make a new movie, add the videos, and save it.
iMovie is good when you also want transitions, titles, or music, or videos of different sizes. The shortcut is faster when you only want to join videos.