I think we can all agree that YouTube is a great platform, but it has two pretty annoying things: the ads and the lack of an option to download the videos . Of course, we are talking about the free version of YouTube that almost everyone uses, since we know that the paid version (YouTube Premium) does not have either of these two problems.
Unfortunately, the ads cannot be removed in any way in the official mobile app, but downloading the videos is something that can be done in many ways . In the past, we have already explained how to download YouTube videos on Android and now it is time to explain to our iPhone friends how to do the same on their mobiles. Join us…
3 Ways to Download YouTube Videos on iPhone
In the following sections, we will show you how to download YouTube videos on your iPhone with or without third-party apps and through free and official methods. They also work with the iPad! Are you ready? Let’s go there…
Use iOS Shortcuts to Download YouTube Videos Easily
The iOS automation app called Shortcuts allows you to download YouTube videos to your iPhone with just two button presses . To do this, you must do the following:
- First of all, activate the installation of unreliable shortcuts on your iPhone: go to the settings of your iPhone, go to Shortcuts and activate the aforementioned option.
- Click the following link to get the “Download YouTube” shortcut . You need to tap Get Shortcut to add it to your iPhone.
- Once the shortcut is added, you can now download videos from YouTube just like that:
- Go to YouTube and open the video to download.
- Tap the Share button and then tap More .
- Select the Download YouTube shortcut.
If for some reason the video does not download, you can try doing the same thing, but with other shortcuts like YouTube Video & Audio or the Download YouTube and YouTube download site duo (you must install both for them to work).
YouTube Premium is the best way to download videos (paid method)
Officially, YouTube does allow you to download videos from the official app, only you must meet a requirement for the option to be activated: be a YouTube Premium subscriber . Currently, these are the plans you can subscribe to:
- Basic : €11.99/month.
- Students : €6.99/month.
- Family Plan : €17.99/month (for 5 people from the same household).
Once you activate your YouTube Premium subscription, you can download any video from within the app for offline viewing . You will also get other interesting benefits: you will not see ads and you can play content in the background or with the screen off.
With the Documents app it’s also easy to download videos from YouTube on iOS
Unlike what happens on Android, for iPhone and iPad there are no applications made specifically to download videos from YouTube . This is because the App Store does not allow them, and since there is only one app store in iOS and there is nothing like APKs to install apps that the official stores do not offer, iPhone users must make do with what is available.
However, it is possible to use third-party services to download YouTube videos on iPhone. How? Thus:
- First, install the Documents app from Readdle . It’s free!
- Once installed, go to the YouTube video to download and copy its link . If you are using the app, you should click on the Share option and then choose the option to copy the link.
- Now open the Documents app and log in to your internal browser .
- From there, go to Y2Mate (it can be any other website that downloads YouTube videos).
- Paste the YouTube link on the page and tap the download button.
- When the download is complete, go to the Downloads tab within the Documents app. Your video will be there ready to watch.
You should know that downloading certain videos from YouTube may be illegal , so be very careful. And that was it! We hope that these methods have been useful to you and you are already downloading the YouTube videos that interest you on your iPhone.
