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If you have an Amazon Prime account (which costs £79 a year), you can now download some Amazon videos and movies to watch offline. The Amazon Video app is available for free for iOS devices (apple.co/1YR7m7h). 

To install the Amazon Video app on Android, you first need the Amazon App Store app. While both these apps are free, neither is available directly from the Play Store so the process of getting them is a little more complicated. Open your device’s Settings, tap Security then swipe the ‘Unknown sources’ slider to the On position and tap OK to confirm. Now open any web browser app (such as Chrome), type www.amazon,co.uk/getappstore, then tap OK. Next, tap the Download Amazon Underground button at the bottom, then OK to confirm the download. A file named Amazon_App.apk will start downloading. When that’s done, tap to open it, select ‘Package installer’, then Always. Now tap Next twice, followed by Install, then Open. Finally, tap ‘Sign in’and log into your Amazon account.

To install the Amazon Video app, type amazon video into the search bar at the top, tap the first option that appears, followed by the Free button, then ‘Get app’. Now tap Next, Install, then Open. Both apps will now appear on your homescreen. If you’re not an Amazon Prime member, you’ll see the option to get a month’s free membership when you first launch Amazon Video. Tap ‘Get started’ and follow the steps to sign up (remember to cancel your membership within a month if you don’t want to start paying). You can now tap to browse through the list of titles available through Amazon Prime.

In addition to ‘Watch with Prime’ and ‘Add to Wishlist’, some titles will have the Download option. Tap it and choose from Good, Better or Best video quality the higher the quality, the larger the file and the longer it’ll take to download. Click the ‘Set as default’ box to avoid being asked again in future.