In autophagy, autophagosomes fuse with lysosomes to form autolysosomes. Contents enclosed within autophagosomes were degraded, while autophagosome outer membrane components are recycled from autolysosomes by the recycler complex via autophagosomal components recycling (ACR). However, the detailed mechanism for this recycling process remains poorly understood. By overlapping the recycler complex subunit SNX4 interacting proteins and proteins biotinylated by the recycling cargo APEX-STX17, we identified SNX16 as a key protein in ACR. Further analysis showed that SNX16 localizes to autolysosomes and is required for ACR. SNX16 interacts with the recycler complex and functions in ACR by regulating the recycler complex formation, facilitating cargo recognition and the connection between cargoes-SNX4-SNX5 and dynein-dynactin complexes. In addition, SNX16-cargoes interactions are regulated by the activity of two ACR-related small GTPases, Rab32 and Rab38. Taken together, our research unveiled a crucial role of SNX16 in ACR and provided insights into its function on autolysosomes, aside from its previously known functions on endosomes.