Tips on rip and save audio from YouTube videos with your iPhone

Edit the workflow

To use your new workflow, you just tap the share arrow in Safari whenever you’re viewing a video you want to convert. Then tap the Workflow icon, and choose your Download YouTube MP3action from the list. Then wait while it runs. The workflow works great on most YouTube videos, but sometimes it just fails. This has something to do with the YouTube end of things, and I have’t yet worked out why.

This workflow will download the YouTube video, convert the video to MP3/M4A audio, then give the file a name (taken from the title of the video) and save it to iCloud.
Change the video to a lower resolution

Because we’re discarding the video section, we will download the 360p resolution instead of the 720p. This will be faster. To do this, scroll down your workflow until you see this list:

Danialenotdan’s workflow lets you choose different defaults for video quality.

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Then, just drag the line containing number 18 up to the top, replacing 22. This sets the priority order for the download when it picks a video format and size. Danialenotdan explains:

If you’d like to change the format, rearrange the items in the List action in the workflow – the first number is the quality it defaults to:

22: mp4, 720p 18: mp4, 360p 34: flv, 360p 35: flv, 480p

Danialenotdan’s workflow doesn’t rename or save the file, so I added both steps. At the end of the workflow, delete the Quick Look action, and then drag in three new actions:


Set Name


Encode Media


Save File

In that order. Then, configure these actions as follows:
Set Name

This action grabs the video title from the original YouTube page.

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Tap the WorkFlow Input token you just inserted, then use the dropdown menus to set Workflow Input to as Article, and Get field to Title.



Encode Media



This takes the video file and converts it to an audio file. You can choose the format, and other options, depending on whether you pick MP3 or M4A. YouTube videos have their audio in M4A, so this is a good option. If you prefer MP3, it may take a little longer.



Save File



Here, we choose where to save the resulting audio file. My workflow uses iCloud Drive. The Workflow app is only allowed to write to its own folder, so that’s the one I pick. You can also have the action ask for a destination every time you run it.



The important part here is to tap the Destination Path field, then tap the Set Name token in the row above the keyboard. This is the token (or variable) we created earlier. It will get inserted after the word /Workflow/ . Then, tap this token again, and choose from the following options:





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Fix Photo App Crashing on iPhone/iPad [2018 Updated]

1. Reasons of iPhone Photo App Crashing

If you have a problem with your internet connection, it may cause your iPhone’s new iOS update to fail. This may corrupt some of your apps and it may even cause you to lose some of your photos in the camera roll. Due to iPhone photos app crashing, you will not have access to your photos and videos in the camera roll.

In case you jailbreak your iPhone and go to download and install programs from other sources apart from Apple store, you run the risk of crashing your camera roll. Jail breaking your iPhone makes it vulnerable to malware attacks, app crashing or even a shorter battery life.
2. Force Quit And Relaunch the Photo App

Instead of restarting your iPhone, you can try to quit Photo app then re-launch it again. These are the steps to follow:

Step 1: Got to the Home button and double click it to bring you the multitasking screen.

Step 2: Find the Photos app and swipe up to quit it.

Step 3: Click on the Home button to go to the Home screen.

Step 4: Re-launch the Photo app and check if the app is working.


3. Force Reboot iOS Device

In many instances, you can fix most of the issues on your iPhone by rebooting.

Step 1: Press and hold the Power button for a few seconds until you see the Slide to power off then swipe to turn your device off.Jihosoft Giveaway Alert:

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Step 2: Press the Power button again, to restart your device then check if the Photo app is available.

Step 3: If the Photo app is not working, you can force a restart again.



For users of iPhone X, 8, 8 Plus, you just need to press the Volume up and Volume down buttons then after long press the Side button then release when the Apple logo appears on your screen.

Users of iPhone 7 and newer, you can press and hold the Volume down and Power buttons until the Apple logo appears on your screen.

For users of other iPhone models, you press and hold the Power and Home buttons at the same time.
4. Delete .thm files

You just need to follow these steps:

Step 1: On your device, download the free demo for PhoneView.

Step 2: Go to the Preferences tab then Turn on the Advanced mode.

Step 3: Click on the DCIM folder and open the 101 folder.

Step 4: You can delete all the files with the extension .thm folder or just delete the entire 101 folder.

Step 5: You can now restart your iPhone.