Q&A for How to Add a Movie to Your iPad

Unfortunately, you likely need to upgrade to an iPad capable of running the latest version of iOS. Even third-party apps like Google Drive will stop working on older iPads after awhile.

Connect your iPad to your computer. Go into iTunes and select your connected iPad from the list of devices. Under the iPad icon, select the "Movies" option. Then simply drag and drop the movie files you want to transfer from the folder where your movies are on your computer to the iTunes window.

You will need a third-party app to download embedded videos (e.g., YouTube or Facebook videos). You cannot download a video file directly from a website to your iPad's hard drive.

The iPad and iPhone do not support SD cards, so you cannot load movies this way. However, you can use the steps above instead.