Soon YouTube for Android users will begin to enjoy the automatic download of videos on their phones, a feature that is already present in the YouTube Music app, but that will now also come to the YouTube app, although at the moment few have it.
This functionality is called “ intelligent download ” and its operation is quite simple, enabled what it does is download videos to your phone automatically and without your intervention, specifically, it will save those recommended videos.
It will do this as long as the application detects that you are connected to a WiFi network, otherwise the downloads will be paused until the WiFi is detected again, when the process will resume. In addition, there will be a weekly limit of downloads that the application will make.
20 videos per week
The limit will be 20 videos per week, so this number of downloaded videos will be stored in the Library tab of the application, right next to the history and playlist options, so that you have them on hand for when you need them. you need.
That YouTube makes 20 downloads a week could generate a storage problem in the phone in the very short term, especially in those mobiles in which the storage space is smaller and the user has little storage for their things.
These videos can be viewed at any time and it is surely a possibility that can be deactivated for all those who think that it is a bad idea for YouTube to start downloading videos to their smartphone, although this is not entirely confirmed.
This functionality has only been seen on YouTube for Android , but if it arrives, it will surely also do so to the iOS app. Very few people have been able to test the novelty, in fact, it is a functionality in beta phase that is very restricted and few have had access.
The automatic download of videos on YouTube should be available in a short time, although there is no official release date, but when it arrives it will surely do so through a new update that the user must install in his version, downloading a new version of YouTube from its corresponding app store.
Via: Androidpolice
