Christian Selig’s unofficial YouTube app for the Vision Pro just got taken down

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Juno, the third-party YouTube app created for the Apple Vision Pro, has been removed from the App Store. In a station connected Tuesday, developer Christian Selig said the app was taken down months aft Google warned that it violates YouTube’s guidelines.

Like Netflix, Google doesn’t marque a YouTube app for the Vision Pro. That means you tin lone ticker YouTube successful Safari, which breaks retired videos into Apple’s autochthonal video player. Google said a YouTube app for the Vision Pro is “on the roadmap” successful February, but we haven’t heard immoderate updates since.

Selig created Juno earlier this year to capable the gap. It offered features similar the quality to presumption videos successful an immersive 360- oregon 180-degree format, pinch and resistance to scrub done content, and usage Siri to power playback. Juno didn’t artifact ads and served arsenic a “web-wrapper for YouTube, akin to a browser extension,” according to Selig.

In an email successful April, YouTube’s ineligible squad told Selig that the Juno app “violated” the platform’s API presumption of work — adjacent though Selig says Juno doesn’t usage YouTube’s API — and “strongly alludes to YouTube’s trademarks and iconography.” After receiving the message, Selig says helium removed YouTube’s logo from Juno’s homepage and added “unofficial” to its subtitle and statement connected the App Store.

Despite these changes, Selig says helium couldn’t scope an statement with YouTube:

Juno is conscionable a web view, and acts arsenic small much than a browser hold that modifies CSS to marque the website and video subordinate look much “visionOS” like. No logos are placed different than those already connected the website, and the “for YouTube” suffix is permitted successful their branding guidelines.

I stated arsenic overmuch to YouTube, they wouldn’t truly clarify oregon budge any, and arsenic a effect of some parties not being capable to travel to a decision I received an email a fewer minutes agone from Apple that Juno has been removed from the App Store.

Selig says helium doesn’t mean to combat the app’s removal, arsenic helium did with the Apollo app for Reddit. If you already person Juno, it should proceed moving unless you delete the app oregon YouTube pushes an update that breaks something. The Verge reached retired to Google and Apple with requests for remark but didn’t instantly perceive back.

Its removal from the App Store is simply a bummer for Vision Pro owners who utilized the app to ticker videos successful virtual reality. There aren’t truly immoderate different YouTube apps for the Vision Pro that comparison to Juno, but determination is astatine slightest a way to ticker shows (and YouTube videos) from a floating CRT TV.

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