

Here, automatic download also depends on your last interaction with that playlist. If you downloaded the whole playlist in the YouTube app, then videos will be downloaded automatically in some cases. These offline videos show download icons in the “Downloads” list, whenever they expired. YouTube offline videos which are downloaded individually will not renew (download) automatically.

How to stop renewing offline videos on YouTube? So, if you want to download video for offline viewing, then it is good practice to watch it within 48 hours, otherwise you need to download it again. Once offline videos expire, you will find a download icon on the video’s thumbnail. Because, there are no settings in the YouTube app to increase the expiration time of offline videos. Here, if you want to increase expire time for YouTube offline videos, then don’t waste your time to find such hacks. To make video offline again, you need to re-download the video in the app. It means, video downloaded in YouTube app will not be available for offline view after 48 hours expired time. In other words, YouTube offline videos available for 2 days.

People asked this question because downloaded videos won’t play offline when its expiration time is over.ĭo YouTube videos expire? Yes, YouTube offline videos expires after 48 hours of download time. Users also asked questions in different words, for example, “Why did my youtube downloads disappear?”. This first question comes into YouTube app user’s mind, when they download offline videos.
