How to download Torrents in iPhone and iPad without Jailbreak

Torrents have become a convenient and popular way to share large files among groups of people. All media content can be easily downloaded at a single place by using a torrent client. There are lots of websites which provides links to free torrents which can be downloaded easily using a free torrent client. These torrent clients are available for Mac, Windows and Android platforms. But sadly there are very few options available to download torrents in iPhone or iPads. Apple has a staunch policy of not allowing any torrent clients in its official App store because torrents are used mainly to illegally download copyrighted media content, which have a negative impact on Apple’s business, namely the iTunes store.

But an iOS user needs not to worry as I am going to show the easiest ways to download any torrent on an iPhone and iPad and best thing is all these tricks are absolutely free. There are two ways to download torrent in iOS devices without even jail breaking the device and I am going to share the step by step method of doing so.

Note: It is recommended that Wi-Fi only mode should be used whenever possible as it saves battery and also mobile data charges.

Method 1

This method involves downloading via an online torrent downloader. There are many online torrent downloader sites but www.zbigz.com is the best as it supports torrent downloading even without creating accounts. In this tutorial we will focus on downloading torrents using www.zbigz.com.

• Go to any torrent search site like Piratebay or Yify-torrents and search for the required torrent.
• Copy the Magnet Link of the torrent file.

  

• Now go to zbigz.com and paste the magnet link of the torrent file and then click on GO.

• The site will compile the torrent into a single file and then it can be downloaded as any other regular zip file.

                                 

Note: zbigz.com throttle the download speed of a  FREE user to 150 kbps and the maximum size of a file which can be downloaded is 1 Gb. This limitations are not applicable for a Premium user.

Method 2

The second method involves downloading torrents using iTransmission.

• Set the date of the device to 2012. (This is very IMPORTANT, dont skip this step).
• Go to http://www.iosemulatorspot.com/downloads.html , scroll down to the iTransmission app and install it.

• After the app is installed, set the device’s date back to present date ( This is IMPORTANT step, dont skip this).
• Search the torrent you want to download from torrent search engines like piratebay and copy the magnet url.
• Now open the iTransmission app and click the + button and then paste the url and click OK.

 

Note: iTransmission doesnot allow the downloaded files to be directly opened in an iOS device. It needs iFile which costs $2 in the app store to open the files. But the files can be transferred to a PC or Laptop using iTunes and then again transferred back to the iOS device using VLC or any other media player for media contents or other apps for non media contents.  

Disclaimer : This article is for educational purposes only. I do not support downloading of copyrighted materials.