Apple Vision Pro Finally Gets a Native YouTube App

YouTube is now available as a native app on the Apple Vision Pro (via 9to5Mac). The headset is often marketed as a “personal theater” with support for 3D and 180-degree VR videos, and the absence of a YouTube app two years after its launch has finally been addressed.

If Apple Vision Pro users could already watch YouTube via the Vision Pro’s Safari web browser, the native app offers an optimized user interface and can turn every video into a “spatial watch experience.” The store listing says that 3D and VR180 videos are supported, as well as 8K videos on the recently-released M5 Vision Pro.

The Apple Vision Pro launched with over 600 apps at launch, but several big names were missing. Apple said at the time that over 1 million iOS and iPadOS apps were compatible on the Vision Pro, but Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube all declined to make their existing apps available on the headset at launch.

Due to its $3,499 price, the Vision Pro never became a massive hit with consumers. However, the hardware is really solid with a crisp OLED display and spatial audio support, and there’s also a growing collection of immersive films in 8K and 180-degree to enjoy on the device.