Upload videos

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

Note: This feature may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more here.

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 60 seconds or less and has a square or vertical aspect ratio, it will be uploaded equally a Short. Learn more than.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than lx seconds and has a square or vertical aspect ratio, y'all can tap "Edit into a Short" to trim your video and upload information technology equally a Brusque. Learn more.
  3. TapNEXT.
  4. Add together your video details and tapNEXT.

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

    • 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 to public. Everyone can change this setting to brand their video public, individual, or unlisted.
  5. Select "Yes, it'due south made for kids" or "No, it's not made for kids" to choose your audience. Larn more about fabricated for kids.
  6. Tap Age restriction (advanced) and select "Yes, restrict my video to viewers over xviii" or "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over 18."Learn more than about historic period restriction.
  7. Tap UPLOAD to publish your video.

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

Watch an example

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

Upload to YouTube using your iPhone or iPad

Learn more than about uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per day

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

"Featured in this video" section

If your video features a top searched creator, viewers may meet a link on the watch page to the featured creator'south channel, with the option 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 be tagged manually.

How to remove a tag

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

If you're tagged in a video, y'all tin can tap on your proper name on the lookout 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

Yous tin change the blazon of connection used to upload your videos.

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

Learn the departure 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 figure out the all-time way to display the content. For the best experience, don't add black 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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