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In the olden days of a few years ago, downloaded movies and TV shows were transferred from the PC to devices like iPods for on-the-go viewing. But the ubiquity of streaming services means all the entertainment you could e'er want is at your fingertips, provided you have a solid internet connection.

Simply what if you don't? Wi-Fi isn't everywhere and expressionless zones are real. Ask anyone whose commute involves a tunnel. When yous're approaching the end of an episode and you run out of buffered video, it'south a hair puller.

Thankfully, many streaming services at present have the option to download content for offline viewing. That means you can stop that picture show or TV flavour finale even as you lot enter the tunnel, bulldoze beyond the plains, or take to the skies.

Netflix

You can't download the entire Netflix catalog to view offline, but you can have your fill up of Netflix Originals. To observe something, tap the Downloads icon on the lesser of your screen and click Find Something to Download (Android) or See What You Can Download (iOS).

If you already have a show or film in mind, become to the list and look for the download icon nether the description. If it's a TV show, scroll down and wait for it next to the individual episode(south). Tap it and your selection volition download to your device; when you desire to desire to watch later, over again hitting the Downloads button on the chief screen.

If storage is a business organisation, ready Netflix to Standard Video quality, which downloads faster and uses less space. Tap the hamburger menu (three lines) > App Settings > Video Quality > Standard.Here yous tin can besides set the Netflix app to only download over Wi-Fi, activate "Smart Downloads" and so the app grabs the next episode when you lot finish 1, check internal storage to meet how much infinite you have left and how much is currently used by Netflix videos, and delete all downloads at once.

On Android, you can ready the Download Location: if you take external storage options like an SD card, tell Netflix to send downloads there. Playback is limited to the device that downloaded information technology; the app substantially puts DRM on the file, locking information technology to the device where the app that downloaded information technology resides. That means you can't swap cards with friends or fifty-fifty to your own devices (like a PC).

Amazon Prime Video

Select movies and videos streaming on Amazon's Prime Video—available via Amazon Prime number for $119 a year or separately for $8.99 per month—tin be downloaded to a phone or tablet running iOS, Android, or Amazon's Fire Os. Annotation that you have to be the paying member to download; it doesn't work for Amazon Household members.

Y'all'll see a download push button on eligible videos in the Prime Video app on either iOS or Android. For an eligible TV show, download the whole flavour, or click next to an individual episode.

To watch a downloaded show or motion picture, tap the Downloads button on iOS and My Stuff > Downloads on Android.

If storage is an result, on iOS get to Settings > Streaming & Downloading > Download Quality and select Good, Better, or All-time, which are described by how much infinite an hour of video uses upwardly (All-time is 1 hour using 0.9GB of data and storage on iOS or 0.46GB on Android).

On Android, get to My Stuff > Settings gear icon > Stream & Download > Download Quality. Android users get a Information Saver setting for actually pocket-size, low-res versions. If yous want to change it with each download, set it to Always Enquire, and you'll get a pop-up with each click of the download icon. Under Stream & Download, set it to merely download on Wi-Fi to spare your carrier or your phone data charges; you can do the aforementioned on iOS under Settings > Streaming & Downloading > Download on Wi-Fi Only.

As far as availability, there are limits, just you'll notice most Prime Originals and annihilation Amazon distributed easy to grab. Amazon has a deal with premium channels like HBO, Kickoff, Starz to distribute older shows that are no longer ambulation new episodes. They are available to download, like The Sopranos, Patrick Melrose, and The Missing.

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Of course, Amazon is more willing to rent or sell you lot private movies and shows that are non streaming on Prime. Apple iOS users will have to buy or rent on Amazon.com via a browser so return to the Prime Video app to watch (that way, Amazon does not take to give Apple a cut of the purchase cost). Note that Amazon normally displays the Hard disk drive version, which can be more than expensive and take up more space than SD. Click "More than Purchase Options" for SD. Tap My Stuff > Purchases.

Disney+

The latest (for at present!) video streamer of note is Disney+, which offers the ability to download videos for offline viewing via its iOS and Android apps. When you lot're viewing the info on a show or movie, click the Download icon (arrow pointing downwards). With TV shows, y'all tin download a whole season at in one case, or grab episodes individually.

To discover downloads later, tap the Downloads icon from the master navigation bar at the bottom of the app. You'll go a full list of what'southward available offline. There's no limit to how much you can download except for how much storage is on your device. However, downloads elapse if you don't access the app every 30 days.

Tap the Edit icon at summit to delete videos en masse, or swipe an detail left and tap the trashcan icon. Expired items will accept an exclamation signal in a circle alarm icon. You lot have to delete those and get dorsum into the primary interface and re-download them once again if you still desire them offline.

If you go into your account settings, you can play with the download settings and so the app downloads over Wi-Fi only, modify the video quality (from Standard to Medium or High), which will also testify you just how many hours of storage y'all accept), and even click a Delete All Downloads selection. (Read The Best Disney+ Tips and Tricks for more.)

Hulu

Hulu downloads on iOS, iPadOS, and Android (including Amazon Fire tablets) work much similar y'all'd observe in the other streaming service apps. Discover the download icon on any picture show listing or next to episodes of a Telly show (Hulu says it's on "the majority" of content). Tap it, and the downloaded content appears nether the Downloads tab found at the bottom.

At that place are caveats with this characteristic. It only works if you pay for the ad-costless version of Hulu, and is limited to 25 total downloads with either xxx days of storage, or two days after yous commencement watching information technology. You lot tin renew it once you're online again if you lot miss the deadline.

YouTube Premium

Downloading videos from YouTube is a cottage industry all its own. Vendors inundate PCMag hoping to get a mention in our YouTube video download tutorial. Even if they're not explicitly breaking YouTube'due south terms of service, such options may foreclose people from making money on YouTube (aka, their livelihood).

To be on the up and upward and still get YouTube video downloads, afterwards a one-month trial, subscribe for $11.99 per month to YouTube Premium(Opens in a new window) (formerly YouTube Red). It axes commercials, provides access to YouTube Originals (shows by professionals), YouTube Music, and allows for video downloads. (Buyer beware: the cost is $15.99 a month if you ready Premium via the app on iOS—that's Google passing the "Apple tax" on to customers.) Students pay just $6.99 per month; up to 5 family members tin can share a membership for $17.99 per month.

Once you've subscribed, the app volition display a Premium logo. Click the Salvage icon on a video on your iOS or Android phone or tablet and select your video quality: Medium (360p video) or High (720p)—some offer a Low (144p) option. Grab a whole playlist if you desire. The icon turns blue afterwards the download is complete. Access them from the Library tab, nether Downloads.

Naturally, YouTube Premium restricts playback to a device signed into the aforementioned account. Downloads disappear subsequently 30 days. After the free trial, yous'll simply encounter the download button when you subscribe. One time you are down to just v percent or less storage on a device, yous tin can't download videos with YouTube Premium until you clear some infinite.

Downloads work for all YouTube Originals(Opens in a new window). None of those shows are exactly household names, simply that may be because you lot're non under 18.

As for the rest of the videos on YouTube, whether you tin download is at the discretion of the uploader/owner. With 500 hours of video uploaded every minute(Opens in a new window), yous tin probably find something to download and lookout.

CBS

The CBS app is how you access the original content for the $5.99-per-month CBS All Access streaming service, including Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, The Good Fight, and The Twilight Zone. But a lot of other CBS network content is streamable, too.

You'll also observe the app rife with download icons in circles, indicating much of the content is available to watch offline. If yous're not subscribed, clicking to download either pops upwards a alarm that you have to pay, or offers yous a one-calendar week gratuitous trial. You tin can access all downloads from the hamburger menu > Downloads, naturally.

DC Universe

The DC Universe app combines comic book reading with super-heroic movies and TV shows and brusque videos, and y'all tin can download a lot of that video for offline viewing. At that place's no obvious download button, however; click the vertical ellipsis card (3 dots) and the menu options include Download. You tin can and so find the list under My DC. (It's very easy to find for TV testify episodes, even onetime shows like the 1970s Wonder Woman. But I can't find the link to download any picture show on the service.)

You tin can but download 25 videos at in one case (across multiple devices, so 5 movies on an iPad and three on an Android telephone counts equally 8 downloads). You can simply download the same video twice in one year. You can go into My DC > Settings > Download quality to switch from standard-def to high-def, which is well-nigh v times more storage infinite in difference. The Downloads heading will show you how much infinite you lot're using and you can prepare it to only be able to download via Wi-Fi, so yous don't eat up your mobile carrier data cap. Click the Total Space Used choice to also see a list of what you have downloaded and to clear them all at once, or one at a time.

Maybe don't become too attached to DC Universe. Rumors are rampant that it may become captivated into HBO Max when that launches (supposedly in May). It's already confirmed that the crown gem of the service, Doom Patrol, will be moving in that location for its second season. Merely annihilation could happen.

Apple Television+

The streaming from Apple features quite a few original shows now, and you tin download them if yous apply Apple's TV app on iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Every show has a download icon (the cloud with the arrow pointing down) side by side to the episode.

To detect it later, merely click Library at the bottom of the app. That'll display stuff you lot bought back in the iTunes days all the manner up to downloads y'all only made from the streaming service. Library is also where you delete videos; click Edit, select shows, then hit Delete. For more, read How to Get and Utilise Apple TV+.

Downloads are good for xxx days; less for some channels. In fact, some channels that partner with Apple tree TV have their own limits on downloads, if they allow them at all.

Showtime and Starz

The premium channels with apps allow downloads for those with a cable subscription or straight subscription. (HBO doesn't allow downloads.)Offset has two apps on iOS and Android each(Opens in a new window), one for those with a cable sub (First Anytime) and one for those subscribing straight (but Starting time); you tin as well access both versions via a desktop browser, but can just download content on mobile. On the desktop, the Downloads entry in the settings card only lets you delete other apps logged into the same business relationship that might have downloads. To download something, expect for the downward-facing icon on the episode or movie page; to find downloads later, tap the download icon on the pinnacle-right.

Downloading movies and TV shows on Showtime Anytime

Starz simply has 1 app on iOS(Opens in a new window) and on Android(Opens in a new window), plus web access for both kinds of subscribers, cable or direct. You get full downloads of all Starz originals, but once again, merely on mobile. One time downloaded, click the Starz Carte du jour and select My List, and the offline-accessible shows announced at the top.

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