How to Watch YouTube Offline on PC and Mobile

It’s easy to watch YouTube videos online with an internet-connected device. You can either enjoy it on your desktop via YouTube official website or view the original contents through the YouTube app on your mobile phone. However, if you want to watch YouTube offline, it may be a little troublesome.

As we all know, YouTube has restricted copyright policy to protect its valuable contents. So it doesn’t provide an official way for users to download YouTube videos. For mobile users, you can choose to become a YouTube Premium to get the download right. While for desktop user you may turn to use another third-party application. Here we will emphasize more on how to watch YouTube videos offline on PC and briefly introduce the information about YouTube Premium.

How to Watch YouTube Offline on PC

Whether you want to save offline YouTube videos in a laptop, PC, or Mac, the third-party tools you can utilize are screen recorder, online YouTube downloader and YouTube video converter. Among these options, a solid YouTube screen recorder is the safe bet for many desktop users since vast of YouTube downloaders/converters contain safety problems to your computer device like downloading malware even virus along with YouTube video.

Therefore, when you meet the problem that you’re unable to download YouTube videos, the first step is to find out a user-friendly screen recorder. Here we recommend an excellent video recorder for YouTube users and it’s called RecMaster.

RecMaster, as the best YouTube recorder for Windows and Mac OS laptop, is competent for YouTube video capture, YouTube audio record and extracting audio/video from YouTube videos. Besides, it promotes the YouTube video saving efficiency by offering versatile features and flexible settings. Afterwards, once you save YouTube to your local drive, you can permanently get the right to view it offline. Now let’s have a look at the workflow:

How to record YouTube videos for offline watching with RecMaster
Step 1: Get the software installation package from official website or click the download links below according to your computer operating system. Then please follow the wizard to finish the whole process.

Step 2: Define one recording mode. If you want to watch offline YouTube videos at whole desktop screen scale, please navigate to Full screen mode. For any windowed-screen or specific-region capture, Custom area is the suitable choice to perform YouTube video recording. You can also take advantage of the Audio Only and Webcam modes to conduct other YouTube activities based on your needs.

Step 3: Do recording settings. It’s up to you how to configure the recording settings including output audio, video format, video quality and other advanced options. If you want to get a voiceless YouTube video, you need to turn off System sound and Microphone buttons. If not, you’d at least choose the System sound option to grab background sound.

Step 4: Start with REC or use the shortkeys Alt +1/ Command +1 to launch a YouTube video recording. Optionally leverage the annotation tool to make notes if necessary.

Step 5: During the recording, you can manually pause and resume the recording to adjust your recording process. When it’s time to end, tab the Stop icon. Do any changes or cuttings to your recorded video by virtue of the built-in editor.

RecMaster also has the ability to automatically carry out a YouTube video recording with the help of task schedule tool. If you want to make it possible, please preset the time and mode in the settings.

How to Watch YouTube Offline on Mobile Device

YouTube gives its mobile devices user the possibility to download YouTube videos including iPhone, iPad, Android phone and tablet. For mobile devices user you just need to become a premium subscriber to watch YouTube videos offline with ease. YouTube allows its premium subscriber to legally download videos and playlists to watch offline if these apps are available in your location and at the same time you’re signed in with your YouTube Premium account.

Workflow: Start watching a video on the YouTube mobile app >> Tab Download icon below the video player >> Select the video quality and wait for the whole process to end >> View your downloaded videos in the Library or Account tabs.

However, even you purchase the YouTube Premium subscription, there are important things needed attention.
1. If less than 5% of storage is available on your device, you won’t be able to download additional YouTube videos.
2. Downloaded videos will be available offline for 30 days.
3. Some videos may not be accessible offline when you reconnect to the internet due to content restrictions from video creators.

To sum up, a YouTube Premium account can’t guarantee a one-hundred-success-download process. If you want to know more information about Premium rights, please refer to YouTube Premium page.

Conclusion
This article gives two ways about how to watch YouTube offline. We still recommend RecMaster to download any YouTube videos without limitation.