How to Download Dailymotion Videos on iPhone

Dailymotion predates most of the platforms in this series by years, and it’s still where a lot of older content lives that never made the jump to YouTube: archived TV segments, older sports clips, regional shows, and uploads from creators who simply picked a different platform back in the day. Finding the clip is often the hard part. Once you have, Grabio gets it off your phone the same way it handles any other platform link.

How Grabio handles Dailymotion links

Dailymotion is one of the platforms Grabio recognizes automatically. Share a video’s link, and Grabio forwards it to cobalt.tools with the URL already loaded, no manual pasting required on your end.

Steps to download a Dailymotion video on iPhone with Grabio

1. Add Grabio to your iPhone once, free Apple Shortcut, no login.
2. Open the video on Dailymotion (app or mobile site) and tap Share.
3. Tap Grabio in the share sheet, or Copy Link and open Grabio from your home screen.
4. Grabio recognizes the Dailymotion link and opens cobalt.tools in Safari with it pre-loaded.
5. Tap Download and save the video to Photos or Files.

Why archived platforms matter for actually keeping content

Older platforms lose content more often than people realize, uploaders close accounts, licensing changes pull a regional show, and a video you found once through a search might not surface the same way a year later. If you found something on Dailymotion worth keeping, that’s a reasonable moment to actually download it rather than bookmark the page and hope it’s still there later.

Is it private and free on iPhone?

No account, no login, no daily limit. Grabio’s server identifies the link as Dailymotion and redirects your browser, it never touches the video file, cobalt.tools does the actual fetch on its own site. Use this for content you have a right to keep, not to republish someone else’s upload as your own.

Download Dailymotion videos on iPhone: FAQ

Does this work on both dailymotion.com links and the short dai.ly links?

Yes, Grabio recognizes both the full dailymotion.com URL format and the shortened dai.ly links that Dailymotion’s own share button often generates, so either one works the same way.

Can I download an entire playlist at once?

This flow works one video link at a time. For a playlist, share the link to each individual video you want rather than the playlist page itself.

What about age-restricted or region-locked Dailymotion content?

If a video requires you to be logged in or confirms your region isn’t allowed to view it, that same restriction applies here, since cobalt.tools can only pull what’s actually reachable at the link you share.

Related on iPhone: download YouTube videos on iPhone, download a video from Facebook on iPhone, or Video & Audio Tools.