YouTube Premium membership is a chargeable service where users get to enjoy ad-free YouTube videos, watch videos in Picture-in-Picture mode, and also get access to YouTube Music.
With the plethora of ads these days on the world’s largest video platform, YouTube Premium is exactly the solution for people looking to get rid of the unskippable and long ads on YouTube by paying an amount.
Since this premium service is associated with your Google account, no matter where you log in and access YouTube, you can enjoy all the benefits of YouTube Premium on any device.
One such benefit YouTube is providing to its premium users is the ability to try out new features before anyone else. Basically, those features are first made to test out within a small percentage of people and thus exclusive to premium members for a certain period of time. This is done to gather the perception and experience and accordingly roll out to all YouTube users in the future.
Download YouTube videos on your desktop browser officially
The exclusive feature made available to YouTube Premium members this time is the ability to download videos right from the YouTube website just as you would do on Android or iOS devices but from the desktop browser.
It works exactly the same way as the phone app where a video can be downloaded from the ‘three-dot’ menu and also has resolution settings to choose from.
To enable this exclusive feature –
- Open YouTube app on your smartphone
- Tap your profile on top right corner
- Select ‘Premium benefits’, there you’ll find ‘Try new features’ option below the enjoyed benefits stats.
- Select ‘Try new features’
- Here you’ll find an existing feature i.e. Picture-in-picture for iOS and ‘Download videos from your browser’
- Just select the latter and select ‘Try it out’ and now you’ve enables downloadable videos on desktop version of YouTube
Features like these and other features on the YouTube app make the video watching interesting and seamless
Some important pointers to note here is that you require a YouTube Premium subscription (obviously!) and supported browsers which are Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera running the latest versions on your PC or Mac. Also, this feature is only available to enroll in till 19 Oct 2021 so be sure to check it out in case you want to be amongst the first ones to try out this feature.
This is certainly a welcome feature where users can enjoy YouTube videos on a laptop while on the go or when in certain situations where the internet absolutely sucks and you don’t want to constantly glare at the buffering screen. Basically the same use case as on a smartphone.