Youtube Introduces Smart Offline Feature In India To Enable Cheap Downloads

Mobile Networks in India offer customers discounted data during late evenings and night hours, usally between midnight and dawn, so Youtube is Introducing a new smart offline feature in India to make downloading more convenient and cost effective , it automatically download videos to a smartphone overnight so that they can be watched anywhere even without a data connection, the next day without the person actually staying overnight to download it.

  This comes a year after Youtube launched offline video saving in India, a feature that requires a suscription to Youtube Red in the United States.

  We hope you like this more affordable and convenient way to take videos offline, and continue watching Youtube whenever you like, buffer-free, Google's India blog states. 

  The smart offline feature does not work with Wi-Fi, but only for cellular data connections. Airtel and Telenor are the only two companies that have signed on to support Smart Offline.