Can I watch a downloaded movie without wifi?

You need to be connected (obviously) to download, but not to actually watch them once they are downloaded. Easiest way to get them on the iPad is to download directly from the iTunes app (will take a while for movies, they are large files), but you can also purchase them through itunes on a computer and then synch them to the iPad.

You could up until the last update which replaced "Videos" with "TV". I just spent a very frustrating two days of flying where I could not get it to work on my ipad because TV insists on having a WiFi connection to see your downloads. Hopefully they will fix this soon, otherwise I will stop buying movies all together. The only reason I buy them is to watch them while flying. I blundered around on my iphone (as opposed to my ipad) until I got it to work from some obscure place. But of course the screen is much smaller. I had to blunder around for half an hour again the next time because it was not at all intuitive how to do it. It did not work on the ipad at all. It used to with the Video app before they replaced it with the TV app.

Please submit feedback about this to Apple.

We all need to keep sending feedback about this new TV App issue with having to be always connected to Wifi so Apple will respond with a fix.

It has been over two months that Apple has been lax on fixing this issue.

iPad Feedback

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Good Luck!

I'm on iPhone 7, so it must be different, but the "Videos" app is not built in on my phone. So, how would I watch movies on my phone instead? I have the TV app, but I think it requires WiFi.

yep, works on rented movies as well, but I understand that in some locals a rented movie cannot be transfered from device to device.

Check out the Videos section of the user guide for some more details: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/ipad_user_guide.pdf

TV shows are located in the Videos App. iTunes on the iPad is a link to the store only, not the same media player like it is on a computer.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386

I've purchased and downloaded the episodes. But when my wifi is off, where do I view them since you cannot connect to iTunes without wifi?

Thank you so much :)

It doesn't allow downloaded movies without Wifi since Apple "improved" Videos with the new TV. Apparently fixing something that wasn't broke. They also made the navigation more complex. Hopefully, they'll soon fix the fix.

You're quite welcome! Enjoy the TV shows!

I Had the same issue , how do we fix it ?