Upload videos

Y'all tin can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Apply 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 i:

  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 volition be uploaded every bit a Short. Learn more.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than 60 seconds and has a square or vertical attribute ratio, you tin can tap "Edit into a Short" to trim your video and upload information technology as a Short. Learn more.
  3. TapNEXT.
  4. Add your video details and tapNEXT.

    • 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 pick.

    • Notation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set up to public. Anybody can change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.
  5. Select "Yes, it's fabricated for kids" or "No, it's non made for kids" to choose your audition. Learn more about made for kids.
  6. Tap Historic period brake (advanced) and select "Yes, restrict my video to viewers over 18" or "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over eighteen."Acquire more virtually historic period brake.
  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 example

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

Upload to YouTube using your iPhone or iPad

Larn more virtually uploading videos

How many videos yous tin upload per twenty-four hours

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

"Featured in this video" section

If your video features a top searched creator, viewers may see a link on the scout page to the featured creator'south aqueduct, with the choice to subscribe. This feature makes it easier for viewers to discover new creators and subscribe to their channels.

A diverse 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 tin tap on the featured creator's name and cull to remove them from the video.

If you lot're tagged in a video, yous tin can tap on your proper noun on the picket folio and cull to remove yourself from the video or from all videos you're tagged in on this aqueduct.

Upload over mobile network vs. Wi-Fi

Yous can change the type of connection used to upload your videos.

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

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When you lot upload and publish your video, YouTube volition figure out the best manner to display the content. For the all-time 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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