2.4
21.3K reviews
5M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Pioneer’s Advanced Remote Control (Pioneer ARC) app converts your Android smartphone* into a powerful touchscreen remote control, which allows you to control and customize your compatible Pioneer car stereo.
Pioneer ARC lets you browse your favorite music, switch sources (FM tuner, Bluetooth Audio, etc), launch 3rd party apps, customize the illumination colors and audio settings of your Pioneer system.

Compatible features vary by model.

*The Pioneer ARC app is compatible with Android smartphones running 4.1 and above.

For USB connections
This function is compatible with a phone that runs Android 4.1 up to 7.1.2 and also supports AOA (Android Open Accessory) 2.0, but the compatibility depends on the smartphone.
Some Android devices connected via AOA 2.0 may not work properly or emit sounds due to their own software design, regardless of the OS version.

Compatible Pioneer products:
-Source Control / Audio Settings / Illumination settings / Bluetooth management
DEH-S60*0BS
DEH-S50*0BT/DEH-X50BT/DEH-X50BR
DEH-S4080BT(Brazil)
MVH-S501BS
MVH-X30BT/MVH-X30BR
MVH-S600BS/MVH-S605BT /MVH-S61*BT
FH-S70*BS/FH-S70*BT

-Source Control / Audio Settings / Bluetooth management
DEH-S4000BT/DEH-S4010BT/DEH-S4050BT/DEH-S040BT
DEH-S30*0BT
MVH-S30*BT/MVH-S030BT
MVH-S40*BT
FH-S50*BT/FH-S51BT

-Source Control / Audio Settings
DEH-S12**UB / DEH-S12*UB
DEH-S12**UI / DEH-S12*UI
MVH-S220DAB
MVH-S21*UB / MVH-S21**UB
DEH-S400DAB / DEH-S410DAB
DEH-S20*0UI / DEH-S21*0UI/DEH-S210UI
DEH-X10/DEH-X10BR
DEH-S10**UB/DEH-S010UB / DEH-S11**UB/DEH-S11UB/DEH-S19UB
DEH-S10*UB/DEH-S10*UB* / DEH-S11*UB/DEH-S11*UB*
DXT-S106UB/DXT-S1069UB / DXT-S116UB/DXT-S1169UB
MVH-S200DAB / MVH-S210DAB
MVH-S10*UI / MVH-S11*UI/G, MVH-S11UI
MVH-S100UB/MVH-S100UB* / MVH-S110UB/MVH-S110UB*
MVH-S010UB
DEH-X49**BT/DEH-4900DAB
DEH-X39**BT/DEH-3900BT
DEH-X29**UI/DEH-X2900UI
DEH-X19**UB/DEH-1900UB*
MVH-X39*BT/MVH-390BT
MVH-290DAB
MVH-X19*UI/MVH-190UI/MVH-190UB*


- Source Control / Audio Settings / Illumination settings
DEH-S22*UI / DEH-S22**UI
FH-X830BHS
FH-X73* BT/BS
FH-X78*BT
DEH-X8800BHS
DEH-X7800BHS/DEH-X7800DAB/DEH-X7850BT
DEH-X6800BS, DEH-X6850BT
MVH-X58*BT/MVH-X580DAB

- Source Control
DEH-X68**BT
DEH-X68**DAB
DEH-X5800BT
DEH-X5800HD
DEH-X48**BT/DEH-4800BT/DEH-4800DAB
DEH-X38**UI
DEH-X28**UI/DEH-2800UI/DEH-2800DAB
DEH-X18**UB/DEH-1800UB*
MVH-X38*BT
MVH-280DAB
MVH-X18*UI/MVH-180UI/MVH-180UB*
Updated on
Aug 29, 2023

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Ratings and reviews

2.4
21.2K reviews
Matthew Conlisk
August 24, 2020
I can say without any doubt this app is useless. I have played with all settings, multiple phones and cables on each. I have gone over the settings more than once and nothing I do allows the audio from spotify to play through the car speakers. The company has not replied to many of the comments and seems uninterested in this useless software. If you allow this app as the default it will continue to run and you cannot end task. Don't waste your time.
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KC Cheong
July 13, 2020
Cool concept, poor execution. I thought it was a cool feature to have an app connect to my head unit but the app hardly connects, it keeps running on my phone even when I'm not close to the car, and the app is outdated and practically useless. If you want to use Spotify, you can just connect to the head unit with Bluetooth without needing this app. Only thing this is useful for is color settings for display/keys and EQ settings which you won't be adjusting often.
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A Google user
April 23, 2019
worked fine with my old android phone. I upgraded to a galaxy s9+ and now I cant get my phone to play through the radio via USB. my unit does not have bluetooth, so I deleted the app. reinstalled it today and it shows the music information on my radio screen, but the sound is coming out of my phones speaker....unless you have any ideas of how to make it work( and turning off the debugging doesn't work, I tried the last time before I deleted it.), I will be deleting it again.
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What's new

Minor bug fixes