YouTube could soon let you download videos to your PC

(Pocket-lint) - YouTube is investigating a download fastener for its website, to alteration users to store a transcript of a video for viewing later.

Already disposable to YouTube Premium subscribers connected mobile, nonstop downloads to PC, Mac and Chromebook done a browser means you won't person to usage third-party bundle oregon fishy sites.

It is presently being tested done the brand's experimental caller features section and likewise lone disposable to YouTube Premium subscribers. You besides person until conscionable 19 October 2021 to effort it out.

After then, who knows? Hopefully, it'll go a mainstay of the mean YouTube experience.

According to Android Police, the diagnostic is elemental to use. Once signed up, you get a download fastener nether the toolbar beneath the title. Downloaded videos tin past beryllium viewed connected a specific YouTube download page.

It's worthy noting that it volition lone enactment done Chromium browsers - truthful Google Chrome, Edge and Opera. Mac users won't beryllium capable to usage the download enactment done Safari.

YouTube Premium costs £11.99 / $11.99 per period for a azygous membership, £17.99 / $17.99 per period for a household of six. You tin sign-up for a one-month proceedings earlier paying a penny, and it includes YouTube Music Premium access.

You tin find retired much astir the subscription work successful our usher here: What is YouTube Premium, however overmuch is it, and however does it work?

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 23 September 2021.