How to download YouTube videos to watch offline – Popular Science

When you want to download a video from YouTube, a quick web search will reveal several tools that promise to do the job—but even leaving aside the issue of violating the YouTube terms of service, we can’t guarantee that they’re safe or reliable. If you want to download YouTube videos, there’s only one official way to go about it: To put down $14 a month for YouTube Premium. That might seem a lot for the privilege of downloading videos, but it also means that you’ll never see an ad again, can keep videos playing in the background on a phone, and will get access to a complete Spotify competitor in the form of YouTube Music. Download YouTube videos to a computer The only official way to download a YouTube video is to use YouTube Premium. David Nield for Popular Science When you’re using YouTube in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Opera and are signed into an account that has YouTube Premium, you’ll see a Download button underneath every video when you open up its full page. Click the button, and the download will start. You must keep YouTube open in a browser tab to keep the downloads running, but you can
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