YouTube Launches on Apple Vision Pro

[MacRumors]

Starting today, an official YouTube app is available on the Apple Vision Pro, allowing you to watch videos on a theater-sized screen with immersive visionOS Environments.

Every video on YouTube is available in the new, standalone visionOS app, including standard videos, 180° videos, 360° videos, and YouTube Shorts. And on the newer Apple Vision Pro with the M5 chip, you can even watch YouTube videos in 8K.

Apple Vision Pro users can access their YouTube subscriptions, playlists, watch history, and more.

It was already possible to watch YouTube videos via the Safari browser on the Apple Vision Pro, but there was no official YouTube app on the device until now. A third-party YouTube app called "Juno" was available on visionOS in 2024, but it was quickly removed from the App Store because it was deemed to be violating YouTube's Terms of Service.

The official YouTube app is available in the visionOS App Store. The app is compatible with Apple Vision Pro models with the M2 chip and the M5 chip.

Article Link: YouTube Launches on Apple Vision Pro

 

[MacUserFella]

Should’ve been available at launch, but a win is a win I guess

 

[Kylo83]

Yessss I love my Vision Pro and been waiting on this

 

[What_Is_George]

About time? I guess? Better late than never? I still feel like $3,500 to watch YouTube is crazy.

 

[Nugget]

I've been waiting for this. Really excited to hear it's actually been released.

 

[Kylo83]

I got the m5 one so 8k videos here I come, amazing news

 

[7thson]

Apple: OK Google, we’re choosing Gemini for our AI server
Google: Excellent. Here’s YouTube for Vision Pro as a thank you.

 

[BabyBoii]

the delay of youtube app may have been the straw that broke the camels back imo

 

[UltimateSyn]

I still feel like $3,500 to watch YouTube is crazy.

Why would one app’s availability define a device’s entire use? That’s like saying $1,000 to watch YouTube is crazy for an iPhone, or $5,000 to watch YouTube is crazy for a Mac Pro — that’s just one of the many things you can use those devices for.

 

[iToph]

Ok. Now I need one again. Not

 

[adamjackson]

This was not on my 2026 Bingo Card.

 

[oneMadRssn]

Why would one app’s availability define a device’s entire use? That’s like saying $1,000 to watch YouTube is crazy for an iPhone, or $5,000 to watch YouTube is crazy for a Mac Pro — that’s just one of the many things you can use those devices for.

Incidentally, both of your examples were able to watch YouTube since initial launch. The original iphone famously came with a pre-installed youtube client.

 

[klasma]

I wonder if that was part of the Gemini deal. 😉

 

[apple2me]

Perhaps indication of recent thawing of relationship between Applegoo.

 

[johnrlaporta]

...and not many people care.

 

[ThatGuyInLa]

I still think headsets that simulate the massive theater presentations ARE the future of viewing. Especially with everyone living in parents basements, or small apt living with 5 room-mates and your bedroom is a closet. They just need to be at the quality level where they are perceptively indistinguishable from the real deal. They also need to cost next to nothing. Be a commodity item. I absolutely they will be one day as cheap as any 55" TV today.

 

[AppleMatt]

This is good news. Albeit why the UI has to partially obscure the video, when there is (literally) endless space, I do not know.

 

[Astuces iOS]

Mac app when?

 

[sw1tcher]

Every video on YouTube is available in the new, standalone visionOS app, including standard videos, 180° videos, 360° videos, and YouTube Shorts. And on the newer Apple Vision Pro with the M5 chip, you can even watch YouTube videos in 8K.

YouTube ads in 8K! 🤘

 

[IceCool]

Finally! Man, I’ve been waiting for this one for too long 😂

 

[sw1tcher]

This is good news. Albeit why the UI has to partially obscure the video, when there is (literally) endless space, I do not know.

Alphabet should Liquid Glass the UI 😂

 

[TruthAboveAllElse]

About time? I guess? Better late than never? I still feel like $3,500 to watch YouTube is crazy.

I feel like $30,000 is a lot to go through the drive through.

 

[JOLoughlin]

This is great news but I kind of already have 3 different apps to watch Youtube on visionOS (Safari included). Better 2 years later than never though.

 

[citysnaps]

About time? I guess? Better late than never? I still feel like $3,500 to watch YouTube is crazy.

You may be unaware that the roughly 400,000 people who have purchased AVP have used it for purposes other than just watching YouTube videos.

 

[Ja50n]

About time? I guess? Better late than never? I still feel like $3,500 to watch YouTube is crazy.

Crazier is buying a $3500 device only to realize Google hasn’t put out a YouTube app for it. I feel like Google may have intentionally held off, hoping for Apple to fail in a market they themselves struggle with.