I finally got YouTube playing in CarPlay thanks to an obscure app developed in China

Published Oct 7, 2026, 8:30 AM EDT Patrick O’Rourke is XDA’s News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint’s Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup, and earlier in his career, he worked as the technology editor at the Financial Post and Postmedia. He’s based in Toronto. Over the past 15 years, he’s written thousands of articles. Patrick has also interviewed dozens of tech industry executives and covered GDC, E3, Gamescom, WWDC, Apple keynotes, Samsung Unpacked events and more. Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University.    While I’m a big fan of Android Auto, I also appreciate CarPlay’s simplicity. There’s some truth to the “it just works” angle with Apple’s in-car infotainment platform, though it definitely lacks the customization Android Auto offers. One key feature is also still missing, despite Apple changing its App Store rules to allow it: video apps, particularly YouTube. Sure, you can use third-party dongles to get features like this up and running, but as far as I know, APTV is the first app to allow the functionality on a standard wired or wireless CarPlay system. APTV works surprisingly well with YouTube There are a few things to consider, though Getting APTV running
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