VRChat iPhone/iPad App Coming Soon? "iOS" User Recently Spotted Online!

Someone running a third party API tool recently came across this intriguing log-in status (screen capture at right), strongly suggesting someone on the VRChat development team was logged into the platform with an iOS tag on their current session. I.E., an iOS version of the VRChat app is almost certainly being live-tested. (This is via VRCX, a friendship management tool for VRChat that browses select publicly accessible data, including device.)

This isn't a surprise, as VRChat the company has been working on various iPhone-related applications since at least 2021 (see video below) and a fully functional VRChat for Android phones was teased almost exactly a year ago. But the "iOS" tag popping up on VRCX strongly suggests the long-awaited iOS app is close to be launched, at least in early closed Beta form.

All that to one side, my sense is VRChat is and will steadfastly remain VR-centric for the most part:

The free Android app launched last Summer, but has only been downloaded less than 500,000 times. (On Google Play, it's been stuck in the "100K+ Downloads" range for many months and has yet to cross into the "500K+" tier.) With an estimated active user base of 10-20 million, you'd think that millions of VRChat players who own an Android would have downloaded it.  But apparently they prefer keeping their VRChat in VR.

Then again, it could be most active VRChat users are iOS owners. Generally people who can afford a high-end VR rig will also tend to own an iPhone. But we'll know more than the iOS app does finally launch!

Comments

[OeillieCat]

Welp! Looks like them VRC folks will be getting some ipad kids sooner then later.

[Adeon]

my experience is as long as you join group instances you don't run into kids - the kids just join public instances and aren't interested - or don't know how - to join groups.