How To Know If You Downloaded Amazon Prime Video Or Just In Library

(Pocket-lint) - You can watch Amazon Prime Video in a few unlike means, whether that'southward a tablet, your Telly, a smartphone or a browser, simply what well-nigh offline viewing?

If you want to be able to spotter Amazon Prime Video content while travelling or using your device somewhere y'all know won't have a good internet connection, then there are multiple means to download content for offline watching.

Stick with us as we explain how.

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How to download Amazon Prime Video shows on your phone

The procedure for downloading video content from Amazon Prime Video on your phone is fairly straightforward. Follow the steps below to download content from Amazon Prime Video onto your phone or tablet to view offline.

Open the Amazon Prime number Video app for either Android smartphones or Apple iPhones.
Search for the show or movie yous want to download.
Tap on the 'Download Flavour [insert flavor number here]' to download an unabridged flavour. For films, y'all obviously have the option to download the entire thing to your device.
Alternatively for shows, scroll down and download specific episodes by tapping on the tray icon with the arrow next to each episode.
You tin cull whether you want Prime number Video to notify yous when the download is finished.
Tap on Downloads at the bottom of the screen to admission your downloads.

In one case you're finished watching, information technology's worth deleting the download and free up space on your phone - you tin set the app to do this automatically too past tapping on 'Manage' in the Downloads section.

Also in the 'Manage' settings in the Downloads department, is the ability to turn on or off Auto Downloads. When on, you can choose how many episodes you would like to machine download with options from one to five.

Y'all need an Amazon Prime account to practice all this, but yous can so download both Amazon Prime Video content and purchased films or shows this way.

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How to download Amazon Prime Video shows on Windows 10

If you visit Amazon Prime Video in a browser on Windows 10, you lot'll see an option to download the specific bear witness or film yous're interested in. Clicking that push will take yous to the Amazon Prime Video app for Windows.

Download that app and log in to your Amazon Prime account. Yous're then presented with a pleasant and familiar interface that'south like to the smartphone one.

Search for the content you want to lookout and yous'll encounter the selection to download either individual shows, entire seasons or movies straight to your device.

Once downloaded, that content is and then accessible via the "Downloads" tab on the left-hand navigation inside the app.

Managing storage

For both the Windows 10 app and the smartphone app, you can choose download quality options using the settings cog. This is in the lesser left corner of the Windows x app, or in the tiptop right corner of the smartphone app in the My Stuff tab.

Once in the settings, tap on 'Streaming & Downloading' and so 'Download Quality'.

You can cull from these download quality options:

All-time - 1 hour of video uses about 1.4 GB of data and storage
Better - i hour of video uses about 0.8 GB of data and storage
Good - ane hour of video uses about 0.5 GB of data and storage

The settings in the Windows x app volition let you know how much space y'all're using upwards with the downloads besides and you can delete any you've finished with from the downloads section. For the smartphone app, the Downloads tab will show you this information, as mentioned above.

It is worth noting that you don't get to choose where the downloads are stored, which is a shame every bit it means yous tin can't manage storage if y'all have larger internal or external drives working alongside your main Windows drive, or you take a microSD card in your smartphone, for example.

Writing by Adrian Willings. Editing past Britta O'Boyle.