If you were hoping to enjoy YouTube on your Apple Vision Pro in a more immersive way, you might be out of luck for now. The popular third-party app, Juno, created by developer Christian Selig, has been taken down from the App Store.
The reason? Google, the parent company of YouTube, sent Selig a warning months ago stating that Juno violated YouTube’s guidelines. This comes as a bit of a surprise considering that Google itself hasn’t released an official YouTube app for the Vision Pro.
Selig’s Juno app offered a number of features that made watching YouTube on Vision Pro a more enjoyable experience. You could view videos in an immersive 360- or 180-degree format, pinch and drag to scrub through content, and even use Siri to control playback.
Google’s legal team claimed that Juno violated YouTube’s API terms of service and “strongly alludes to YouTube’s trademarks and iconography.” Selig, however, insists that Juno doesn’t actually use YouTube’s API and has made changes to comply with Google’s demands.
Despite these efforts, Juno has still been removed from the App Store. Selig says he doesn’t plan to fight the decision, unlike the battle he fought to keep his Apollo app for Reddit on the App Store.
If you already have Juno installed on your Vision Pro, you should still be able to use it for now. However, there’s no guarantee that it will continue to work if Google releases an update that breaks compatibility.
For now, it seems that those who want to watch YouTube on the Vision Pro will have to make do with the built-in Safari browser. It remains to be seen whether Google will ever release an official YouTube app for the device.
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