Download music & podcasts to listen offline

Anywhere you see a playlist or album within the YouTube Music app, tap Menu and select Download. You can also click the download arrow on the album or playlist details page.

To download songs and podcast episodes:

1. Open the YouTube Music app.
2. Tap Menu   Download .

The number of songs, podcasts, and albums you can download depends on how much free space is available on your device. It's also impacted by the length and quality of the audio or video files that you wish to save.

To manage your Smart Download settings:

1. Tap your profile photo Settings.
2. Downloads & storage  toggle on Smart downloads.

From the Downloads & storage menu, you can:

• Manage the Audio and Video quality
• Enable Smart Downloads to download up to 200 of your recently played songs
• Free up space by tapping Clear downloads

You can choose which types of connection should be used to download content in the YouTube Music app. For example, you can specify that songs should only be downloaded on Wi-Fi.

Some mobile network carriers give access to unrestricted mobile data, which is data that does not count towards any quotas or limits. If you’re using one of those carriers, you may see an option to download on “Wi-Fi and unrestricted mobile data.” Selecting this will download songs when your device has a Wi-Fi connection. You can also download on an unrestricted mobile data connection with this option.

Unrestricted mobile data is only available on Android version R or newer. It’s limited to participating mobile carriers, where access may be limited to 5G.

To change your settings:

1. Open the YouTube Music app.
2. Tap your profile photo.
3. Tap Settings .
4. Select which connection type to allow downloads on.