For those folks who doesn’t have super-fast Internet connections on their smartphones, it can be very annoying to watch YouTube videos when it constantly pauses to load every frame. Don’t worry, Google plans to fix that soon as they are now working to let users watch YouTube videos on their mobile devices, even when offline.
“This upcoming feature will allow people to add videos to their device to watch for a short period when an Internet connection is unavailable,” YouTube announced on its’ blog. Google says that this new feature will be available via its mobile app in November.
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So, how does this work exactly? According to a YouTube memo obtained by AllThingsD, uploaders get full control over this feature. They can either enable or disable offline viewing when uploading a video. But, it will be enabled by default. Even when viewing offline, the view counts will be added to the video and advertisements will appear as usual. Once a user select to watch a video later offline, the video gets saved to their device and allows them to watch it as many times as they want within 48 hours.
This could come in handy for the people who likes to watch the same video over and over again, because with this neat trick they won’t have to load the video each time. Although, you will still get charged by the mobile carrier for downloading data.
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