But One Thing Is Certain: Watching a Video on Youtube Causes Data to Be Transferred Each Time. Downloading It and Then Watching the Downloaded Copy Transfers...
But one thing is certain: watching a video on Youtube causes data to be transferred each time. Downloading it and then watching the downloaded copy transfers the data across your internet connection only once.
Does watching downloaded videos use data?
Downloading shows will use about the same amount of data as streaming, but the ability to store video could help customers better manage their data usage by downloading shows on home Wi-Fi networks to avoid using cellular data.
When you take a YouTube video offline, it has to be downloaded somewhere. That somewhere would be your phones memory. So yes, offline videos in YouTube definitely consume your phone storage space.
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