It's ane of the mysteries of the internet: you can download Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ shows on your iPad or iPhone, and fifty-fifty a Windows PC, simply you cannot download content from these services on a Mac.

You can watch Netflix, Amazon Prime number Video and Disney+ content on your Mac, to do so you just need to log on to the website of each service. But downloading is forbidden (and if you see a service that seems to propose it will allow you lot to do this and so it may well exist malware!)

If you only wanted to download some movies to watch on your Mac during a long train journey, or an international flight, this volition no doubt exist frustrating. Your just option might seem to be to find content on Apple tree TV+ or use Apple's own iTunes Store, where you can hire or purchase movies or Tv shows, and download them to your Mac. Simply why pay when you could get them for gratis on one of these pop subscription services?

Unfortunately in that location is just one choice if you want to download content from Netflix, Amazon or Disney+ and watch information technology offline: you demand to download information technology on your iPhone or iPad.

UPDATE: On 15 November 2021 Amazon Prime Video launched a native macOS app on the Mac App Store that will allow Prime subscribers to stream and download Prime Video content on their Macs for offline viewing. The app is gratuitous and requires macOS Big Sur (11.4) and later. Get Amazon Prime Video for macOS hither.

You lot can go a 30-24-hour interval free trial of Amazon Prime Video here.

Tin AirPlay help?

Yous might be wondering whether you could then utilise AirPlay to stream the content from your iPhone or iPad to the bigger screen on your Mac. AirPlay is Apple's solution for streaming from your Mac, iPad or iPhone to a TV screen.

Yous might be forgiven for thinking it would exist possible to stream content from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac'southward screen using AirPlay. After all, AirPlay is available on all 3 devices. Prior to iOS 15 and macOS Monterey it was non possible to use AirPlay to stream content from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac's display.

Now the 2021 updates to the operating systems are here you should be able to apply AirPlay to send content to your Mac from an iPhone, iPad, or another Mac. You will besides be able to utilise your Mac equally an AirPlay speaker.

In theory the change should arrive possible to stream downloaded Netflix or Disney+ shows from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac. All the same, when we tried to stream from Netflix to our Mac we saw this alert:

Netflix on Mac

When nosotros tried to stream from iPlayer on our iPhone to our Mac information technology did play (although information technology was a bit laggy) so we think this is Netflix prohibiting this, probably because information technology would be nevertheless could be violating Netflix'due south terms and conditions. If you play downloaded content on your Mac this could lead to termination of your subscription.

As for AirPlay streaming, it volition not work with every Mac. If your Mac is pre-2018 y'all will not be able to relish the new characteristic. You lot'll need a MacBook Pro (2018 and later), MacBook Air (2018 and later), iMac (2019 and afterwards), iMac Pro (2017), Mac mini (2020 and afterward), Mac Pro (2019), and an iPhone 7 and later, iPad Pro (2nd generation and later), iPad Air (tertiary generation and later on), iPad (sixth generation and subsequently), or iPad mini (5th generation and later). If your iPhone, iPad or Mac is older it may nevertheless be possible to share content at a lower resolution if you gear up 'Allow AirPlay for' to 'Anybody' or 'Anyone on the same network'.

Alternatives

Alternatives

While you expect for the new operating systems to go far, there are other ways to stream from an iOS device to a Mac, merely yous will need to install an app on your Mac. For case, AirServer (£/$14.99) or Reflector (£sixteen.01/$14.99) are 2 Mac apps that tin be used to stream content from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac. We accept a split up article about streaming from iPhone or iPad to Mac.