Download music to listen to offline

If you're a YouTube Music Premium fellow member, you can bask music offline by downloading your favorite songs and videos to your mobile device. You'll need to reconnect to the internet at to the lowest degree one time every 30 days to maintain your downloads.

Download music to heed offline with YouTube Music (Android)

There are 2 ways to download music to listen to offline:

  • Plow on smart downloads. The app volition automatically download for you based on your previous listening history - no activeness required for you!
  • Choose specific playlists, songs, or albums to download.

Learn more about YouTube Music Premium and how to outset your free trial.

Turn on smart downloads

To make sure you always have music available–even on the go–plow on smart downloads on your mobile device:

  1. Open the YouTube Music app.
  2. Tap your profile photo.
  3. Tap Downloads .
  4. Tap Settings .
  5. Turn on "Smart downloads."

Once smart downloads are turned on, music will be automatically downloaded for you lot based on your listening history. Yous tin view, break, or delete your watch history to improve your recommendations and which music gets downloaded for you.

If you don't like a specific playlist or album in your downloads, yous can too remove it by tapping Bill of fare then "Remove download ". When you remove a playlist or album, information technology won't re-download to your smart downloads, simply you may see it elsewhere in the YouTube Music app.

The music choice is refreshed every night when you're connected to Wi-Fi. It tin besides update on unrestricted mobile data, depending on your download settings. You must also take more than 40 percent battery charge. Music that is downloaded tin be played for up to 30 days after you've disconnected from the net. Notation that when you reconnect to the internet, some content may no longer be bachelor due to content changes or restrictions fabricated by the video creator.

Download playlists and albums

Anywhere you meet a playlist or album inside the YouTube Music app, tap Menu and select Download. Yous tin can besides click the download pointer on the album or playlist details page.

Download songs

You tin download individual songs from the watch page, by borer on the cover fine art of any vocal and and then tapping Download or by tapping Menu and then borer Download .

Download storage space

The number of songs you lot can download depends on how much gratis space is available on your device. It's besides impacted by the length and quality of the audio or video files that y'all wish to save.

You lot can limit the number of songs for your smart downloads and choose between audio or video downloading by tapping your profile photoand thenSettings and then  Offline settings.

Choose which connection types to use for downloads

You can choose which types of connection should exist used to download songs in the YouTube Music app. For example, you can specify that songs should just be downloaded on Wi-Fi.

Some mobile network carriers give access to unrestricted mobile information, which is data that does not count towards any quotas or limits. If you're using one of those carriers, you may meet an option to download on "Wi-Fi and unrestricted mobile data." Selecting this option will permit songs to be downloaded when your device has a Wi-Fi connection. Yous tin can too download on an unrestricted mobile data connection with this pick.

Unrestricted mobile data is only bachelor on Android version R or newer. It's express to participating mobile carriers, where access may be limited to 5G.

Note: This is currently available on Verizon and AT&T in the United states of america, and KDDI in Japan.

To modify your settings:

  1. Open up the YouTube Music app.
  2. Tap your contour photo.
  3. Tap Settings .
  4. Select which connection type to let downloads on.

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