If you’ve never signed up for YouTube Premium before you may be in luck. Downloads will remain available for up to 30 days at a time before you have to reconnect to the internet to renew the license. The streaming video is saved to your local device storage in a proprietary format and you can only use the YouTube app to watch it. Moreover, the way downloads work for YouTube Premium is similar to something like Netflix or Hulu’s mobile apps.
Anything you download is limited to 1080P full-HD quality or lower - so no 4K content. But there are some important distinctions to make here.
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