YouTube and Spotify Also Won’t Have an Apple Vision Pro App

Apple is opening pre-orders for its Vision Pro headset today. The $3,499 headset will start shipping in the US on February 2, and the company detailed earlier this week the entertainment apps that will be available on the headset at launch.

So far, Netflix stood out as the single big streaming platform that wouldn’t have an app for the Vision Pro, forcing early adopters to access the service via a web browser. However, Bloomberg reported yesterday that YouTube and Spotify will also do the same.

Both platforms aren’t currently planning to release a native app for the Vision Pro. Moreover, YouTube said in a statement yesterday that its iPad app won’t be available on the headset either.

As for Spotify, Bloomberg believes that the company “doesn’t expect to enable its iPad app to run on the device,” citing a person familiar with the matter. However, the music streaming ervice should remain available on the web.

It’s a bit weird to see some of the biggest streaming platforms offer a subpar experience on the Vision Pro. You may remember that many years ago, iPhones and iPads used to ship with a native YouTube app designed by Apple in collaboration with Google. It was a similar story with Google Maps app, which used to be designed by Apple until the company replaced it with its own (and inferior) Maps app with iOS 6 back in 2012.

The Vision Pro is capable of running all iPad apps, but the fact that some companies choose to block their iPads from showing up on the Vision Pro App Store is quite surprising. Even though Spotify started a much-publicized battle with Apple over the company’s App Store policies, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the company’s decision to block its iPad app on the Vision Pro is unrelated to that legal fight.

The Vision Pro is Apple’s first big product launch since the release of the first Apple Watch back in 2025, but at $3,499, the device may struggle to find an audience. It also won’t help if the company has to face an unexpected app gap problem on the Vision Pro App Store.