1,6
21,5K reviews
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PEGI 3
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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 customise your compatible Pioneer car stereo.
Pioneer ARC lets you browse your favourite music, switch sources (FM, DAB, Bluetooth Audio, etc), launch 3rd party apps, customise the illumination colours and audio settings of your Pioneer system.

Pioneer ARC features are depending on the compatible Pioneer headunit itself.

*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
29 Aug 2023

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Ratings and reviews

1,6
21,3K reviews
A Google user
20 June 2019
Important for getting app to connect via Bluetooth or USB. A bug in the arc software prevents connection via the source button. EVEN IF YOU TRY TO USE THE RECONNECT BUTTON. To get this working, you need to force the stereo to start the app on your phone, Make sure you are on any source but "APP" and then hold down the volume knob button for 5 seconds to start the pioneer app on your phone. You will now be connected! Hope this helps! Original post from "Hensperformance"
48 people found this review helpful
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A Google user
05 July 2019
It's still terrible! You can't play tidal unless you are happy to let it play without skipping any songs.... As soon as you skip a song it goes back to playing local music files. It used to be plug and play with older androids but now it is ruined. Please avoid pioneer USB!!! Update: 1 year later and it stilll does this... (yes I'm selecting tidal as a source through the app....) now using a new phone MOTO G7 and it doesn't work at all! zero stars..
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A Google user
22 October 2019
I'm very unhappy with this app. I need it to interact with my van stereo, and nothing else. The app runs PERMANENTLY in the background and is draining battery all the time. When the phone is switched on, the app starts automatically playing audio - this has embarrassed me a couple of times when I have switched my phone on after meetings. It also starts playing audio automatically when plugged into the stereo as well which is always a pain. Why is it so hard to disable this app??? Simple UI FFS
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What's new

Minor bug fixes