Upload videos

Y'all can upload videos to YouTube in a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps. Use the instructions below to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Notation: 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 past recording a new video or selecting an existing one.

YouTube iPhone and iPad app

  1. Open up the YouTube app .
  2. Tap Create""and then  Upload a video.
  3. Select the file you'd like to upload and tap Adjacent.
    • If your video is 60 seconds or less and has a foursquare or vertical aspect ratio, information technology will be uploaded equally a Short. Acquire more.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than 60 seconds and has a square or vertical attribute ratio, you lot can tap "Edit into a Short" to trim your video and upload information technology equally a Brusk. Learn more.

​If you close the upload experience earlier you stop choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.

Thumbnail The image viewers will see earlier clicking your video.
Championship The championship of your video.
Clarification

Info that shows below your video. For video attributions, use the following format:

[Channel Proper noun]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Visibility

Choose the privacy settings of your video to control where your video can appear and who tin can spotter it.

If you're in the YouTube Partner Plan, you can set your video to unlisted or private until checks are finished. To get notified one time checks are complete, you can opt-in to get a notification in the YouTube Studio app. Note: Nosotros're slowly rolling out this feature. ​​
Location Enter the location where your video was filmed.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.

Click NEXT to select your audience.

Audience To comply with the Children'south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell usa whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Historic period-restrict videos that may not exist appropriate for all audiences.

Checks

Note: We're slowly rolling out this feature.

  • Copyright: The Copyright check searches for copyrighted content in your video. If issues are found, you tin remove the claimed content from your video or choose to dispute a claim.
  • Ad suitability: Once you've turned on ads, the Ad suitability check will verify whether your video follows our ad-friendly content guidelines. If bug are found, you tin can request human being review if you lot think our systems made a mistake.

These checks assistance you learn most potential restrictions so y'all can prepare problems before your video is published.

Watch 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 than about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per twenty-four hour period

There'due south a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day. To increase your daily limit, come across this article.

"Featured in this video" section

If your video features a tiptop searched creator, viewers may run across a link on the watch folio to the featured creator'southward channel, with the selection to subscribe. This feature makes it easier for viewers to find new creators and subscribe to their channels.

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

How to remove a tag

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

If yous'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 tin can alter the type of connection used to upload your videos.

  1. Tap your profile pic .
  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 upload a video, the video file is imported to YouTube.

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

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the all-time mode 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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