How to download YouTube videos from iPhone or iPad directly and without a computer

Downloading YouTube videos has always been that unofficial practice that we’ve all wanted to do at some point, and we’ve already told you how to do it comfortably from a Mac. download any YouTube video from iPhone, directly to device? Well, there is, and I’ll explain it right away.

Copy, paste and save

To be able to follow this method of uploading videos to YouTube you will need to have Telegram installed

, since you will be depending on one of their bots. You can download Telegram for free from the App Store.

The bot you will need to activate in Telegram is called YouTubeDL

, with user @YtbDownBot. You can add it by typing this username in the search engine of the application or by clicking on this direct link which will offer to open it directly in Telegram. Press “Start” at the bottom of the screen to start the bot:

Using this bot is very easy. You just need to write the address (URL) of the YouTube video you want to download and the chat will return that video in the file format:

If you click on this file, you can download and open it to play it locally on your iPhone or iPad, and through the share button, you can save it both on the photographic roll or as a file

in a folder on iCloud Drive. You can even send it via WhatsApp, email, or any other app that integrates with this system menu:

Being a Telegram bot, this solution can also be used on Mac. And the bot is able to download videos from other services as well, so you can explore to see how far your possibilities go. This can be very useful if you want to take a look at some YouTube videos if you go to places with no coverage, for example.

Image | Omar Al Ghosson