I read a few from https://www.google.com/search?q=save+videos+from+YouTube+to+your+iPhone&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 so it appears there are ways. Everyone of them require an app.
I am trying to save some video from YouTube to share on my family group and I wonder how to save them on my iPhone memory

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