# Where are downloaded videos stored on Android? — Adinand Auto File Sorter Last reviewed: September 28, 2026. HTML version: https://adinandsorter.com/answers/where-are-downloaded-videos-stored **It depends on what did the downloading.** A video you saved from a web page is an ordinary file in your downloads. A film or clip you downloaded inside a streaming app for offline viewing is not a file you can browse to at all — you find it, play it and delete it from inside that app. ## Saved from a browser: look in Download

Chrome's Android help covers video explicitly — "On some video and audio files, tap Download" — and says the result goes to "your default download location" ([*Download a file*](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95759?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid), Android, read 28 September 2026). On a Galaxy, Samsung's own browser has a different gesture for it: "While playing a video using Popup Video or Video history, touch and hold the screen, select the Save video option, and then the video will be downloaded" ([*Frequently asked questions about Samsung Browser*](https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10002646/), read 28 September 2026).

A detail from Android's developer guide explains why such a video can seem to be missing from the places you look for videos. It lists video files as those "stored in the DCIM/, Movies/, and Pictures/ directories", and downloads separately, as files "stored in the Download/ directory" ([*Access media files from shared storage*](https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/media), read 28 September 2026). So a downloaded clip sits with your other downloads, not beside your camera videos. In Google's Files app you can narrow the pile: open a category, then "To sort by name, date, or size, tap a file category More Sort by" ([*Find & delete files on a Google Pixel phone or Pixel Tablet*](https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/2781972?hl=en), read 28 September 2026) — our tip is to sort by size, since videos tend to be the largest files in the list.

## Downloaded inside YouTube, Netflix and other apps

These stay with the app. Samsung's support page says so plainly: "Some apps, such as Netflix, store their downloads securely on your phone and are only available through the app itself", and it gives the usual reason — "This is most commonly due to copyright restrictions" ([*Where to find downloaded files & my files folder on Samsung phone*](https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/mobile-devices/where-can-i-find-downloaded-files-on-my-samsung-galaxy-smartphone/), Samsung UK, read 28 September 2026). Google's Pixel help gives the matching instruction: "go to the app where you downloaded it" (Pixel Files page above).

Both apps can put new downloads on an SD card instead of internal storage ([*Download YouTube videos to an SD card*](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7381355?hl=en), read 28 September 2026; [*How to store downloads on an SD card*](https://help.netflix.com/en/node/116069), Netflix Help Center, read 28 September 2026) — [the steps are on this page](https://adinandsorter.com/answers/change-download-location-android). Neither of those two pages says which folder on the card the files go into; both are silent on it. Our reading is that Samsung's copyright line above is the reason it does not matter: the download is for the app's player, not for your file manager. [How Android fences off an app's own storage](https://adinandsorter.com/answers/where-to-find-app-data-on-android) is explained separately.

## Videos you recorded or were sent

Clips you recorded yourself are in the video folders that [Android's developer guide](https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/media) names — `DCIM/`, `Movies/` or `Pictures/`. Clips that arrived in a chat follow that app's own layout — [WhatsApp's is here](https://adinandsorter.com/answers/where-are-whatsapp-media-stored) — and screen recordings are filed next to screenshots, [covered on this page](https://adinandsorter.com/answers/where-are-screenshots-saved-on-android).

## If Adinand Auto File Sorter is installed

Then a video you downloaded may have been moved on purpose. The app picks up `.mp4`, `.mkv`, `.avi` and `.webm` files from Downloads and puts them in `Downloads › Sorted Files › Videos`; a video with any other extension, such as `.mov`, goes to `Others` in the same tree. It only looks at the folders it has been given — Downloads unless you add more — and the camera folder is not one of its preset choices, so recordings and in-app downloads are not what it moves. Its History lists each file it moved, and the latest sort can be undone in the free version.

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