Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Use the instructions below to upload your videos from a reckoner or from a mobile device.

Note: This feature may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more than here.

Upload videos

Employ the YouTube iPhone and iPad app to upload videos by recording a new video or selecting an existing 1:

  1. Tap Create""and then Upload a video.
  2. Select an existing video from your gallery.
    • If your video is 60 seconds or less and has a foursquare or vertical aspect ratio, information technology volition be uploaded as a Short. Learn more.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than threescore seconds and has a square or vertical aspect ratio, y'all can tap "Edit into a Curt" to trim your video and upload information technology as a Short. Learn more.
  3. TapAdjacent.
  4. Add your video details and tapSide by side.

    • To add together custom thumbnails, tap the existing thumbnail image. Tap Custom thumbnail to upload a custom video thumbnail from an image on your device. Confirm your thumbnail option.

    • Annotation: The default video privacy setting for creators anile thirteen–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Anybody can change this setting to brand their video public, private, or unlisted.
  5. Select "Aye, it's made for kids" or "No, it'southward non made for kids" to cull your audience. Learn more almost made for kids.
  6. Tap Age restriction (advanced) and select "Aye, restrict my video to viewers over 18" or "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over 18."Learn more nearly age restriction.
  7. Tap UPLOAD to publish your video.

Sometimes we brainstorm uploading your video while you're recording the video. Nosotros never publish a video without your consent.

Watch an example

If you'd like a demo of how to upload videos on your iPhone or iPad, watch the following video.

Upload to YouTube using your iPhone or iPad

Learn more near uploading videos

How many videos you lot can upload per 24-hour interval

There's a limit to how many videos a aqueduct can upload each mean solar day. To increase your daily limit, see this article.

"Featured in this video" section

If your video features a peak searched creator, viewers may meet a link on the watch folio to the featured creator's channel, with the option to subscribe. This characteristic makes information technology easier for viewers to discover new creators and subscribe to their channels.

A diverse group of summit searched creators on YouTube are tagged automatically. Creators cannot be tagged manually.

How to remove a tag

If yous created the video, yous tin can tap on the featured creator's proper noun and choose to remove them from the video.

If you're tagged in a video, y'all can tap on your name on the watch page and choose to remove yourself from the video or from all videos yous're tagged in on this channel.

Upload over mobile network vs. Wi-Fi

You lot can alter the type of connexion used to upload your videos.

  1. Tap your profile pic .
  2. Tap Settings.
  3. In the "Uploads" box, turn "Upload over Wi-Fi only" on or off.

Acquire the difference betwixt "upload" and "publish"

When yous upload a video, the video file is imported to YouTube.

When yous publish a video, the video is available for anyone to scout.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best way to brandish the content. For the best experience, don't add black bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

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