YouTube continues to expand its plans for Shorts. The platform, which offered the option to download videos and watch them offline a while ago, will now allow you to download Shorts. Here’s Shorts Smart Downloads support for YouTube.
Watch Shorts videos offline with Smart Downloads
YouTube, Shorts Smart Downloads It aims to expand the reach of short videos within the scope of the test feature. With this feature, users will be able to download Shorts even while offline. However, its automatic downloading of videos also brought about some controversy.
The Smart Downloads option is currently only available to YouTube Premium subscribers as part of an experimental program. Premium owners can sign up to try this feature from the YouTube mobile app or from the platform’s experimental features page. Let us note that it is only valid on Android.
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After signing up, there will be a “Smart Downloads” area in the Downloads section of the YouTube app. In this area, Shorts videos will be automatically shown according to the user’s viewing history. Downloaded Shorts videos will be available offline.
YouTube first offered support for automatically downloading videos in the background over Wi-Fi last year. This feature, called Smart Downloads, has now been extended to Shorts videos.
Smart Downloads’ automatic downloading has raised questions among some users. After activating this feature, YouTube will download multiple Shorts videos to the user’s device. This will lead to more cache usage.