If you lot're in for a long flying or headed somewhere with an cyberspace connection, it might be a good idea to download some YouTube videos for offline amusement. Thankfully, it'due south pretty easy to do, and then you can get your media set wherever you go. There are ii ways to download videos: through the YouTube app or a 3rd-party tool. Downloading through the YouTube app requires a YouTube premium subscription, whereas tertiary-party tools are gratuitous, but come up with the price of convenience and reliability.

A annotation virtually copyrighted content

Downloading a video through the official YouTube app is permitted by YouTube's Terms & Atmospheric condition equally the video cannot be watched outside the app, and yous have no access to the file. All the same, if you download a YouTube video through a third-political party tool you need to exist aware of YouTube'due south Terms of Service(ToS) and copyright law. Firstly, you volition be violating YouTube's Terms of Service; YouTube can suspend or stop your business relationship if you are plant in breach of this. Secondly, you demand to ensure yous are not violating copyright law. Videos that can be legally downloaded include:

  • Non-copyrighted public domain videos.
  • Videos are covered past the Creative Commons (CC) license.
    • YouTube includes a search filter for videos that fall under this license.
  • Videos created by friends and family who have given y'all permission.

How to download a YouTube video on an Android smartphone or tablet

YouTube Premium

Downloading a video through YouTube requires a YouTube Premium subscription if y'all practice non live in one of these countries. This subscription costs $eleven.99/month for individuals or $17.99 for up to v people in the same household and includes a wide range of benefits like a subscription to YouTube Music. Whether you lot need a Premium subscription or not, the procedure is exactly the aforementioned. While this is the easiest manner to download a YouTube video, you won't be able to admission your video outside the app; a third-party tool is necessary for this.

  1. Open the YouTube app on your telephone.
  2. Open the video you wish to download.
  3. Tap the Download push just below the video.
  4. Select a Download quality. If you lot oasis't subscribed to YouTube Premium, the app will prompt you to earlier you tin download the video.
  5. Tap Download.

Once downloaded, the Download button volition turn into a blackness tick and read Downloaded. Downloaded videos can be accessed in the Home tab of the YouTube app when offline.

You can delete a downloaded YouTube video past tapping the Downloaded button and tapping Remove.

TubeMate

TubeMate is 1 of many services that allow you to download YouTube videos. Notwithstanding, if yous choose not to employ TubeMate, be aware that not all these services are trustworthy and can put you lot at run a risk of downloading malware.

  1. Download the TubeMate app through APKMirror.
  2. Open up the YouTube app.
  3. Open the video you lot wish to download.
  4. Tap the Share icon just below the video.
  5. Tap TubeMate on the list of apps.
  6. Allow permissions for TubeMate.
  7. Tap one of the MP4 download options.
  8. Tap the red Download button.
  9. Tap the Downloaded button, the downward pointing arrow at the bottom of your screen, to encounter the download status.

You lot tin can access your downloaded video in two ways. Either open the TubeMate app and tap the Downloaded button at the lesser of your screen, or you can find the video in your phone'south storage. They'll be located in Files by Google in Internal Storage > Video.

How to download a YouTube video on Chromebook

Unfortunately, there is no reliable third-party tool for downloading YouTube videos on a Chromebook. Websites that provide a download tool exercise exist, but they are frequently discipline to legal takedowns past Google. The safest option to download the video via a third party is to employ the TubeMate method outlined higher up, and then transfer the downloaded file to your Chromebook.

YouTube Premium

Like Android, downloading a video through YouTube on Chromebook requires a Premium subscription. We've used the official YouTube app for this walkthrough, but the steps to download a video using Chrome are nearly identical.

  1. Open up the YouTube app on your Chromebook.
  2. Click the video you lot wish to download.
  3. Click the Download button underneath the video.
  4. Select a Download quality. Again, if yous do not have a subscription to YouTube Premium, you volition be prompted to join hither.
  5. Tap Download.

You tin access your downloaded videos by clicking your profile icon in the superlative correct of the screen, and then clicking Downloads in the bill of fare. Downloaded videos tin be deleted by clicking the 3-button carte du jour to the correct of the video, then clicking Delete from Downloads.

Go your YouTube set up anywhere

Internet connection or not, there's still a way to watch your favorite YouTube videos whenever. Right now, YouTube Premium is the safest and quickest fashion to download a YouTube video, merely there are third-party options available.

Earlier yous go on a downloading frenzy using a 3rd-party app, exist aware that doing so can put you at risk for malware or a direct-up ban from YouTube. If y'all do plan on browsing for a tertiary-political party tool on your Chromebook, cheque it'south updated with the latest security patches first. Otherwise, yous might just want to download a corking Android game to laissez passer the time instead.

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Jon's interest in Android phones began in 2013 and has been tinkering with them always since. When not writing he's probably testing the limits of his laptop's hardware or re-watching The Lord of the Rings.

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