Now view YouTube videos offline on Android and iOS devices

It may have taken its own sweet time to arrive, but the YouTube offline video support feature has finally arrived and users living in India are its first beneficiaries as it’s yet to be launched in other nations. Available through the Android as well as iOS apps of the extremely popular Google-owned service, this release enables you to download content onto your devices free of cost to view it even when there’s no Internet connectivity.

These videos are basically stored on your phone or SD card memory, but are copyrighted and can only be played using the YouTube app. Moreover, they can be viewed offline just for 48 hours after you’ve downloaded them, which is another measure Google has taken in order to avoid issues related to free downloading of copyrighted content.

At an event in Mumbai today, the company announced that ‘much of the popular YouTube content’ generated in the country will be available for offline viewing. While it has kept things vague with this statement, it has indeed mentioned that videos from T-Series, Saregama and Yashraj Films have indeed been included in the list.