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If y'all download a YouTube video then you will exist able to watch it whenever y'all like – even if you don't have WiFi (Picture: Getty)

YouTube is a swell app for watching and sharing videos. But what if you desire to download them to your phone?

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

There are iii main methods of downloading YouTube videos onto your device.

Hither is all you need to know…

How to download YouTube videos onto an iPhone or Android device

1. Sign up to YouTube Premium

You lot can sign upwards to YouTube Premium to download videos, enjoy ad-free videos, and access YouTube Music Premium (which is essentially YouTube'south version of Spotify).

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

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If yous have YouTube Premium, and then downloading videos is equally simple as clicking the 'download' button.

2. Apply a third-party app

Don't feel similar paying? In that location are costless ways to download YouTube videos.

However, YouTube has been peachy down on tertiary-political party apps – so many of them may not work.

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

Depending on the app yous use, the video volition exist available to spotter in the app, in your downloads folder, or on your camera coil.

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

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

Simply re-create and paste the video URL into the site, choose the video quality, printing 'convert', printing 'download', and hey presto: the video volition be downloaded straight onto your computer as an MP4 file.

Yous can and then plug your phone into your computer and transfer the file, like y'all would with any video or moving-picture show.

The video can exist found on your camera roll.

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