Developer Christian Selig has created Juno for YouTube, a dedicated YouTube app for Apple Vision Pro, allowing users to browse YouTube in a refined visionOS interface with native video controls and support for aspect ratio detection. The app is priced at $4.99 and is available on the App Store, providing an alternative to accessing YouTube through Safari. Despite YouTube's decision not to develop a Vision Pro app, Juno offers a promising YouTube experience for Vision Pro owners.
Christian Selig, the developer behind the now defunct Reddit app Apollo, has created Juno, a third-party YouTube app for Apple's new Vision Pro headset after Google declined to release an official app. Priced at $4.99, Juno offers most features expected from a native YouTube app, including video playback, scrubbing, and browsing the catalog, while respecting video aspect ratios. The app also displays YouTube ads and provides a fully native visionOS UI. Despite not using private/internal APIs, it remains to be seen how Google will respond to a third-party developer controlling an app for one of its major services on new hardware.
An unofficial app called "NearDrop" has been developed by grishka that allows macOS devices to receive files from Android phones, tablets, and Chromebooks using Nearby Share. However, it only works in one direction and requires both devices to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network. The app also requires the Mac to be set to "Visible to everyone" at all times, and changing visibility settings is not possible. Users must enable notifications for NearDrop in the "System Settings" section of their Mac to confirm transfers. There are inherent risks in installing software from an unidentified developer, so users should be cautious.
Pixel Search is a new third-party launcher app that mimics the Pixel Launcher and offers a few additional options, including Netflix, Twitter, Bing, and Spotify. The app allows users to adjust their preferences, choose which apps to use for search, and turn on individual app shortcut results. It also offers a unique quick launch option that automatically opens the first result. While it can't search for system settings, the developer is looking into adding that feature. The app is free to download on the Google Play Store.
