Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps. Utilise the instructions below to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Note: This feature may not exist available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Acquire more hither.

Upload videos

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

  1. Tap Create""and then Upload a video.
  2. Select an existing video from your gallery.
    • If your video is lx seconds or less and has a square or vertical aspect ratio, it will exist uploaded every bit a Short. Learn more.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than sixty seconds and has a square or vertical attribute ratio, yous can tap "Edit into a Short" to trim your video and upload it as a Curt. Larn more.
  3. TapNext.
  4. Add together your video details and tapAdjacent.

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

    • Annotation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is prepare to public. Everyone can alter this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.
  5. Select "Aye, it's made for kids" or "No, information technology'south non fabricated for kids" to choose your audience. Learn more about made for kids.
  6. Tap Age restriction (advanced) and select "Aye, restrict my video to viewers over xviii" or "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over 18."Learn more nearly age brake.
  7. Tap UPLOAD to publish your video.

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

Watch an case

If you'd similar a demo of how to upload videos on your iPhone or iPad, watch the post-obit video.

Upload to YouTube using your iPhone or iPad

Acquire more than about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per day

In that location's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day. To increment your daily limit, run across this article.

"Featured in this video" section

If your video features a top searched creator, viewers may see a link on the sentinel folio to the featured creator's channel, with the option to subscribe. This feature makes it easier for viewers to discover new creators and subscribe to their channels.

A various group of top searched creators on YouTube are tagged automatically. Creators cannot exist tagged manually.

How to remove a tag

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

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

Upload over mobile network vs. Wi-Fi

You can modify the type of connection 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.

Learn the difference betwixt "upload" and "publish"

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

When you publish a video, the video is bachelor for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the all-time manner to display the content. For the best feel, don't add black bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square, or horizontal, the video volition fit the screen.

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