Upload videos

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

Note: 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 past recording a new video or selecting an existing ane:

  1. Tap Create""and then Upload a video.
  2. Select an existing video from your gallery.
    • If your video is sixty seconds or less and has a foursquare or vertical aspect ratio, it will exist uploaded as a Curt. Learn more.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than 60 seconds and has a square or vertical aspect ratio, you lot 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 together custom thumbnails, tap the existing thumbnail image. Tap Custom thumbnail to upload a custom video thumbnail from an epitome on your device. Ostend your thumbnail selection.

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

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

Lookout man 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 about uploading videos

How many videos yous can upload per day

In that location's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each twenty-four hours. To increase your daily limit, meet this commodity.

"Featured in this video" section

If your video features a top searched creator, viewers may see a link on the sentry folio to the featured creator'southward channel, with the option to subscribe. This feature makes it easier for viewers to detect 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 you lot created the video, you tin can tap on the featured creator's proper 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 page 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 change the blazon of connectedness used to upload your videos.

  1. Tap your contour film .
  2. Tap Settings.
  3. In the "Uploads" box, plow "Upload over Wi-Fi only" on or off.

Learn the departure between "upload" and "publish"

When yous 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 lot upload and publish your video, YouTube will 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, foursquare, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

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