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Here's a link for you, Sandra:
https://www.diynetwork.com/how-to/outdoors/gardening/pruning-apple-trees
Due to disease easily spread, best time to prune apple trees is when they're dormant. In Wisconsin, it's February... after Coldest winter past. As you're pruning, remember that apples will only grown on horizontal branches, so you would want to train or remove all vertical branches. (apple trees get 'sucker branches' each year, so that's usually what you're getting pruned off)