Moment of rejoice for YouTube users in India! From now on you can download your favorite YouTube videos on your iOS, and Android devices without installing any third party application. Google India announced about this latest development a few days ago on its blog.
You can download a video in YouTube app only. Once downloaded a video will be available for offline viewing during the next 48 hours. Within this time span you can watch the videos as many times as you want without worrying about data balance.
Step#1 Open the YouTube app then look for the offline downloading icon.
Step#2 Tap the offline download icon once and you will asked to choose the quality of the video you want to download.
Step#3 Choose the appropriate video quality and select OK.
Currently there are restrictions on videos that can be downloaded due to copyright and other issues. Due to this several videos have the offline download button disabled.
Google hasn't rolled out this feature globally. And is only in a few countries[Indonesia, Philippines are the others] where average data access speed is slow, costly, and and a huge number of users access YouTube from their smartphone.
Step#2 Uncheck "Add over WiFi only".
You can download a video in YouTube app only. Once downloaded a video will be available for offline viewing during the next 48 hours. Within this time span you can watch the videos as many times as you want without worrying about data balance.
How to Download a YouTube video?
Step#1 Open the YouTube app then look for the offline downloading icon.
Step#3 Choose the appropriate video quality and select OK.
Currently there are restrictions on videos that can be downloaded due to copyright and other issues. Due to this several videos have the offline download button disabled.
Google hasn't rolled out this feature globally. And is only in a few countries[Indonesia, Philippines are the others] where average data access speed is slow, costly, and and a huge number of users access YouTube from their smartphone.
How to Watch Videos Downloaded Earlier?
No third party apps other than the YouTube app is allowed to play the downloaded video as Google has restricted this.
To play a downloaded video, Pull the Navigation Drawer(slide from the left of the screen) in YouTube app.
Now scroll down to find the option Offline, tap it once.
How to Resolve "Waiting for WiFi to add to offline. Visit Settings to reset" issue?
This message is displayed when you try to download a video over mobile data connection. You can solve this by-
Step#1 Open Settings in YouTube app, then tap Offline.
Is There Any Limitation on Number of Videos Can be Downloaded?
No, there is no such limitation, you can download as much as you phone's capacity supports.
Why Offline Download icon is Missing Inside My YouTube app?
This may due to either you haven't updated YouTube app to latest version or you belong to a country where this feature is currently not available.
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