Want to watch YouTube videos offline on your smartphone?
Even YouTubes official download methods vary from region to region, and third-party video download methods keep changing.
Heres how to download YouTube videos on your smartphone.
Should you download YouTube videos from third-party sites?
However, were going to focus on ways to download YouTube videos using your smartphone.
Checkthis listto find out where downloading videos works without paying for YouTube Premium.
you could check all downloaded videos quickly by going to theLibrarytab in the YouTube app and tappingDownloads.
YouTube Go lets you download videos directly to your Android phones microSD card too.
Before you download, remember that this is a stripped down version of YouTube.
You may not be able to watch live videos and high-resolution clips on this app.
Heres how to download videos using this shortcut.
To be able to run third-party (aka community-made) shortcuts, you better run any shortcut once.
If youre not sure how to do that, kick off the app and go to theGallerytab.
Scroll down till you see different shortcuts categories such asEssentials.
Tap any shortcut here and selectAdd Shortcut.
Now go to theMy Shortcutstab in the app and tap the shortcut you just downloaded to run it.
With this done, go toSettings > Shortcutson your iPhone and enableAllow Untrusted Shortcuts.
you’re free to now downloadJAYDfrom RoutineHub (which is a third-party gallery for shortcuts).
If you have the know-how, remember to check the steps in the shortcut to verify that its safe.
With the setup complete, launch the YouTube app on your iPhone and go to any video.
Now hit theSharebutton below the videos title to open a list of apps to share to.
Scroll to the right and selectMore.
This will initiate the share sheet on your iPhone.
Scroll down and selectJAYDfrom the list.
Itll ask if you want to download video or just the audio.
you could selectDownload Video.
Just allow it permission to access these things as and when it asks.
Web-based downloaders usually dont have the full gamut of resolutions for video download.
You may often be stuck with a low-resolution video to watch online–but its still better than nothing.
I tried a few of these and likedYouTubeVideoDownloader.site.
Tap any blue block to download the video with audio.
