YouTube briefly tested cross-device downloads

The UI is live, but the feature doesn't seem to be functional yet

It looks like YouTube wants to make video downloads easier to manage for Premium users. A cross device offline settings entry has popped up and subsequently disappeared in the most recent Android app versions for some. While the feature apparently wasn't fully functional yet, it looks like it might allow you to download videos on your phone and make them automatically appear on other devices someday.

The option showed up in the Background & downloads settings for some YouTube Premium subscribers in stable and beta, v15.49.34 and 15.50.32, but we actually already spotted it as part of an app teardown back in 2018.

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