This does point towards the possibility of the videos still being available offline, but just not playable for some reason.Ĭonsequently, several users were quick to discover that redownloading the pre-existing videos led to zero data consumption and that the process completes in virtually no time.Īgain, this can only be possible if the videos are already present on the device storage. Oddly enough, YouTube continues to occupy the same amount of device storage as it did prior to the videos’ disappearance. Moreover, Android isn’t the sole platform affected by this annoying bug as there are plenty of reports from iOS as well.Īlso, there are similar reports from YouTube Music users too thus pointing towards the fact that YouTube isn’t the only app affected by this issue.

Upon trying to play such videos, they are prompted to download them again or greeted by a “Can’t play video” error. Users state that their downloaded/offline video library becomes inaccessible randomly. Seeing as how I pay for the ability to download videos on Youtube it’d be real cool if this would get fixed. Can’t even bulk re-download, it all has to be done one-by-one. Started happening to me a few days ago and it’s already happened 4 or 5 times. Should we delete the app and re download it?

I’m having the same problem, still taking the same amount of storage but the videos are inaccessible. This is apparent from a slew of reports, some of which have been given below. One of such is the missing downloaded videos issue on YouTube that has been bugging users for several years now and has still not been fixed.Īnd as a result, complaints have only persisted.

Original story (published on January 05, 2021) follows:Ĭertain issues just never seem to go away.

New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….

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