Downloaded movies won’t play without WiFi?

What you need to do is go into the tv app the library then downloaded and then you can play your show or movie

I had same problem , it looks like you have to start watching it with WiFi then you can stop it , go offline and continue watching it offline.

I too am having the same issues. I have downloaded my home videos to my phone so I can play them off-line. But after watching the first one, I try to start a new movie but it requires a Wi-Fi connection. Why?

I had the exact same issue (repeatedly). Looking into it, it seems all iTunes Movies are protected by FairPlay DRM (Digital Rights Management), which is used to protect Apple's digital content. DRM unfortunately means you cannot replicate iTunes Movies and save the videos down on to your own device for offline viewing. When downloading iTunes purchased movies, you are only downloading them on to your iTunes Library, instead of your iPhone, iPad or laptop device. So without a Wi-Fi connection, you will not be able to watch your downloaded movie. Crazy.

If it’s a digital rights issue, why are they denying my right to watch a home movie downloaded onto my device? When exactly do they feel they’ve gained the rights to content that I’ve recorded?

if this issue applied only to content downloaded from their store, you could have an argument for this.

They have ave bugs in the software, not features.

Same problem. I bought at least all these years 8 Ipads. Some older I donated. I have two now. Movies don`t play in my flight or without WiFi. I spent a lot of money renting and buying movies and TV Shows. I have been mad about! Trying other like surface, , my Samsung phone,

It is a disaster for us, customers. I download with my internet that works with very high speed, premium, but itunes movies only at home, with apple tv. The best is try other alternative. I invested too much money renting anmd buying movies and TV show. I no longer trust them.

It is a disaster for us, customers. I download with my internet that works with very high speed, premium, but itunes movies only at home, with apple tv. The best is try other alternative. I invested too much money renting and buying movies and TV show. I no longer

Thanks for your answer. I'm gonna try but why the TV shows play and the movies don't? I'm not happy with the way Apple changed for those like us.

Although this works in theory, you have to make sure you did this to all the movies you have on your device. I have a dozen or so on my iPad. I never know what I want to watch and one should have to upload movies to your device just to have to download them. WiFi should NOT be needed to view existing content on your device. Whoever made this decision should be fired and forced to live in a land of now entertainment.

It is a disaster for us, customers. I download with my internet that works with very high speed, premium, but itunes movies only at home, with apple tv. The best is try other alternative. I invested too much money renting and buying movies and TV show. I no longer

Thanks for your answer. I'm gonna try but why the TV shows play and the movies don't? I'm not happy with the way Apple changed

Perfect. Whoever did this stupid difficulty should be fired. I made my mind to buy only tv show because they work well without internet during the flight. If is a long flight I have the option to watch with UNITED but they talk so much and I have to wait until they stop to say so many blabla in many languages and then I eat and go sleep. Apple or Itunes are not giving us what we bought. It shows downloaded , my internet is premium as well, but until the flight gets higher, the internet is not going to help. URRRR! I'm mad! Thanks everybody!

It even is an issue with my videos that I created ; not purchased from iTunes. Those should not be affected at all. But it insists I have WiFi. So on a long train ride where the WiFi was down, my iPad was useless for videos. This started with Apples recent “downgrade” in software. I still think the IPod was Apples best invention because it doesn’t care about WiFi and has a lot of storage space.

Wasn’t there an app for videos iTunes specifically? It was mostly blue.

In iOS 11 it has been replaced by the TV app.

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I don't know this factually, but I am 99% sure this is not an error, it's apple's Digital Rights Management.