YouTube video playing on an iphone

If you download a YouTube video then you will be able to lookout man it whenever you like – fifty-fifty if you don't have WiFi (Moving picture: Getty)

YouTube is a bully app for watching and sharing videos. Merely what if y'all want to download them to your phone?

Having videos downloaded onto your phone means that you tin watch them whenever you lot desire, wherever you want – even if you don't have access to the internet.

There are three primary methods of downloading YouTube videos onto your device.

Hither is all y'all need to know…

How to download YouTube videos onto an iPhone or Android device

1. Sign upwardly to YouTube Premium

You can sign upward to YouTube Premium to download videos, enjoy advert-complimentary videos, and access YouTube Music Premium (which is substantially YouTube'south version of Spotify).

YouTube Premium offers a ane month free trial, afterwhich you volition have to pay a monthly fee of £11.99.

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If y'all have YouTube Premium, so downloading videos is as simple as clicking the 'download' push button.

ii. Use a tertiary-party app

Don't feel like paying? There are free ways to download YouTube videos.

Withal, YouTube has been great down on third-party apps – so many of them may non work.

Simply download an app like YouTube Downloader, search for the video you want to download, select the format you want (mp4 for a video or mp3 for an audio file), and hit download.

Depending on the app you use, the video volition be available to lookout in the app, in your downloads folder, or on your camera scroll.

3. Download the video onto your laptop/PC and transfer the file

You lot can easily download YouTube videos to your PC or laptop via a number of YouTube downloader websites.

Simply copy and paste the video URL into the site, cull the video quality, press 'convert', press 'download', and hey presto: the video will be downloaded direct onto your calculator equally an MP4 file.

You tin then plug your phone into your calculator and transfer the file, like y'all would with any video or picture.

The video tin exist found on your camera curlicue.

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