Upload videos

Yous tin upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Use the instructions below to upload your videos from a figurer or from a mobile device.

Notation: This feature may not be 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 one:

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

    • To add 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 selection.

    • Notation: The default video privacy setting for creators anile 13–17 is individual. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin modify this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.
  5. Select "Yeah, it'due south fabricated for kids" or "No, it's not made for kids" to cull your audience. Learn more about made for kids.
  6. Tap Age restriction (avant-garde) and select "Yep, restrict my video to viewers over 18" or "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over xviii."Learn more about historic period restriction.
  7. Tap UPLOAD to publish your video.

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

Watch an instance

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 about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per solar day

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

"Featured in this video" section

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

A various grouping of acme searched creators on YouTube are tagged automatically. Creators cannot be tagged manually.

How to remove a tag

If you created the video, y'all tin 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 proper noun on the watch folio and cull 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 change the type of connexion used to upload your videos.

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

Learn the difference between "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 picket.

Upload vertical videos

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