Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy 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. Learn more hither.

Upload videos

Use 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 square or vertical aspect ratio, it will be uploaded equally a Short. Learn more.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than 60 seconds and has a square or vertical attribute ratio, you can tap "Edit into a Brusk" to trim your video and upload it equally a Brusk. Learn more than.
  3. TapNEXT.
  4. Add your video details and tapAdjacent.

    • To add together 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.

    • Notation: The default video privacy setting for creators anile 13–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is ready to public. Anybody can alter this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.
  5. Select "Yep, it'south made for kids" or "No, it's non made for kids" to choose your audience. Acquire more near fabricated for kids.
  6. Tap Age brake (avant-garde) and select "Yes, restrict my video to viewers over xviii" or "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over 18."Learn more virtually age brake.
  7. Tap UPLOAD to publish your video.

Sometimes nosotros begin uploading your video while y'all're recording the video. We never publish a video without your consent.

Lookout an example

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

Upload to YouTube using your iPhone or iPad

Acquire more about uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each twenty-four hour period. To increase your daily limit, come across this article.

"Featured in this video" section

If your video features a top searched creator, viewers may see a link on the watch page to the featured creator's channel, with the pick to subscribe. This feature makes information technology easier for viewers to find new creators and subscribe to their channels.

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

How to remove a tag

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

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

Upload over mobile network vs. Wi-Fi

You can modify the blazon of connection used to upload your videos.

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

Acquire the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

When you publish a video, the video is available for anyone to lookout.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will effigy out the best style to display the content. For the best feel, don't add blackness confined 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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