YouTube downloads now being tested — what you need to know

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At that place is a lot of demand to know how to download YouTube videos, and YouTube appears to be fully aware — and ready to actually let it. The only problem with this legal way to download YouTube videos is that there are a few caveats.

This news comes from tipsters writing into Android Police, who revealed that certain members of YouTube Premium — the service offering an ad-complimentary YouTube experience with offline downloads on mobile devices — have access to this new feature as a office of its Labs tests.

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Unfortunately, not all YouTube Premium members take the characteristic, as nosotros merely checked, and information technology'south not in that location. That may exist because the tipsters are reporting in from India and France, and YouTube may exist testing this feature out in specific regions. Android Police claims, though, that "it appears to exist available widely elsewhere".

To bank check for yourself, navigate to the accost http://youtube.com/new while signed into your YouTube Premium account, and see if the Labs feature "Download videos from your browser" is available. The only Labs feature available when we checked is "Picture-in-picture in iOS," which has proved buggy (at best) in our testing.

The other big caveat — and this is probably what's going to end this characteristic from replacing the shady services and sites and apps that let you download YouTube videos — is that you don't download actual files to your desktop or downloads folder.

Instead, but like in the YouTube app, you can watch these videos in your browser at the accost http://youtube.com/feed/downloads when you're offline.

Assay: What is YouTube upwardly to?

It appears that YouTube is trying to find ways to stem piracy of creator-made content on desktop in the same way it does on mobile. Keeping things inside of the browser is similar enough to the in-app experience that nosotros wonder why there isn't a YouTube app for Windows and macOS still.

If YouTube let you actually create .MP4 files of the videos on its site, we're pretty sure it would exist stirring up a big fight with the people who postal service videos to YouTube.

While YouTube Premium members don't see ads, the power to salve a video and watch it offline outside of the YouTube site (say, in the VLC video thespian) would probable lead to decreased views for YouTube videos. And that'due south something YouTube will clearly desire to avoid.

Henry is a senior editor at Tom's Guide covering streaming media, laptops and all things Apple tree, reviewing devices and services for the by six-plus years. Prior to joining Tom's Guide, he reviewed software and hardware for TechRadar Pro, and interviewed artists for Patek Philippe International Mag. He'south also covered the wild earth of professional person wrestling for Cageside Seats, interviewing athletes and other industry veterans.

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