How to download YouTube videos to iPhone or iPad: a
beginner’s guide to saving videos to watch offline?
Don't
use up your mobile data: download over Wi-Fi and watch later
By Aslam Raju| E-Marketer | 26 August 14
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It's easy to download videos from
YouTube so you can watch them on your iPhone or iPad later without a Wi-Fi or
3G connection. Here we'll show you how to save videos so you can watch them at
any time, even when there's no internet connection.
Bear in mind that there are many
apps which can download online videos, and they all work in the same way as
we'll describe here. You don't have to use the app we're using, and you can
have more than one installed on your device at the same time.
These apps are basically web
browsers with the ability to save videos from certain websites - not just
YouTube - but they cannot save those files so you can watch them in the
native iPhone or iPad Videos app. Nor can they save only the audio from a music
video to your Music library on your device. Apple doesn't allow this.
Having used such apps for years, we
know that they often disappear from the app store, so search for 'video down loader' or 'YouTube down loader' and you will see a list of what's currently
available.
Another issue with these apps is
that - for no apparent reason - there's no pop-up 'Download' windows, or no
save icon. There's no easy answer to why this happens, but the best way around
it is to try another app. We've even used the same app on different iPhones and
were able to download a certain video on one of them but not on the other.
One other thing to watch is that
some free apps limit how many videos you can download before you have to
upgrade to the 'pro' version. That doesn't happen with the free Video Down loader
app we're using here, which is by Devstar apps. (You can click the images below
to see larger versions.)
How
to download YouTube videos to an iPhone or iPad
Step 1. On your device, go to the App Store
and search for "Video down loader - download manager". Make sure to
include the '-' so the app appears first in the list of results.
Step 2. The app is free, so tap 'Free' and then your password when
prompted. There is a paid-for Pro version of the app, and you will see nag
screens and / or adverts. If you don't like them, pay up.
Step 3. Launch the app (it's the one circled on the home screen
below) and the built-in browser will open - it should default to Google.co.uk.
Tap the magnifying glass (circled)
and search for YouTube. Alternatively, tap in the address bar at the top, where
it says Google.co.UK and type m.YouTube.com.
Step 4. Assuming you searched, tap on YouTube in the list of
results and wait for the mobile site to load (it will default to the mobile
version even on the iPad).
Now, tap the magnifying glass
(circled, below) and enter your search term. (We highly mention watching the
entire Development Binky series, by the way.)
Step 5. Pick a video from the list of results and it will start to
buffer. If it doesn't automatically play, tap the play button (circled) and
you should see a little disk icon bobbing up and down (circled,
middle).
You should see a pop-up with the
option to download the video, as
below, right.
Step 6. The video will continue to play, but you should see a
little red circle with 1 inside it as a 'badge' over the Downloads link at the
bottom. If you can't see it, tap on the video to bring up the interface, then
tap done.
You can tap on Downloads to see the
current download progress (shown below), and once complete, you'll find the
file in the Files section, circled below right.
Step
7. To play a saved video, simply tap on the
Files icon at the bottom and tap the one you want - it will start playing.
Simply rotate your device to landscape to watch it full screen
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