Today is an important day for anyone who spent $3,500 on Apple’s “spatial computer.” the Vision Protwo years after its first release, now there is an official YouTube app. It seems like one of those things that happened a million years ago, but for various reasons, it’s happening now.

According to the official description of the YouTube app in the App Store, you can watch the entire gamut of YouTube content, including standard videos as well as 3D, 360, and VR180 videos. You can also watch in 8K resolution, but that’s only available at M5 version of Apple Vision Pro. To clarify, you could previously watch YouTube videos on Vision Pro, but not through an officially licensed app.

Instead of an official YouTube app, a third-party app called Juno allows Vision Pro users to view YouTube content through a workaround. It’s Juno eventually taken over by Apple in October of 2024, about 8 months after the release of Vision Pro and the app.

Why in the world is it taking so long to get an official YouTube app, you ask? Well, for the same reasons that many big services don’t have native Vision Pro apps, probably. The Vision Pro, as impressive as it is from a hardware standpoint, is still a niche device. Apple never sold many units of its highly expensive spatial computer, which meant there wasn’t much incentive for YouTube to create a specific Vision Pro app. Just like there isn’t much incentive for Spotify to do that.

While YouTube previously said that a YouTube app is “in the roadmap” for Vision Pro, I think I speak for most people when I say that I never thought it would take long. While we are talking about the long road to a YouTube app in Vision Pro, it is also worth noting that some obvious services still do not have a native app in visionOS. Apps are Netflix. You can still watch Netflix through the Vision Pro’s Safari web browser, sure, but that method clearly lacks the development and refinement that a native app could.

Fortunately, third-party apps are picking up some pieces for Vision Pro’s lack of app development, but it’s still not an ideal situation for most people who expect a polished visionOS experience. Supercutfor example, a popular third-party app for watching Netflix without the Vision Pro’s Safari browser, costs $4.99, while the Netflix app is technically free. If nothing else, a late-to-the-party YouTube app is a reminder that the Vision Pro still has a long way to go before becoming the XR revolution Apple hopes for.