Upload videos

You tin can upload videos to YouTube in a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps. Employ the instructions below to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Note: This characteristic may non be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more hither.

Upload videos

Employ the YouTube iPhone and iPad app to upload videos past recording a new video or selecting an existing 1.

YouTube iPhone and iPad app

  1. Open the YouTube app .
  2. Tap Create""and then  Upload a video.
  3. Select the file yous'd like to upload and tap Side by side.
    • If your video is 60 seconds or less and has a square or vertical aspect ratio, it will be uploaded as a Brusque. Acquire more than.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than threescore seconds and has a square or vertical aspect ratio, you lot can tap "Edit into a Brusque" to trim your video and upload it as a Short. Learn more than.

​If you close the upload experience before you end choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a typhoon on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.

Thumbnail The image viewers will see before clicking your video.
Title The title of your video.
Clarification

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

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

Choose the privacy settings of your video to command where your video can announced and who can sentry it.

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

Click Side by side to select your audience.

Audition To comply with the Children'south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you lot're required to tell u.s.a. whether your videos are made for kids.
Age brake Age-restrict videos that may not exist appropriate for all audiences.

Checks

Notation: Nosotros're slowly rolling out this feature.

  • Copyright: The Copyright bank check searches for copyrighted content in your video. If issues are plant, yous can remove the claimed content from your video or cull to dispute a merits.
  • Ad suitability: Once you've turned on ads, the Ad suitability check volition verify whether your video follows our advertizing-friendly content guidelines. If issues are found, yous tin request human review if y'all call back our systems fabricated a error.

These checks help yous learn about potential restrictions so you can fix issues earlier your video is published.

Watch an example

If y'all'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

Acquire more than about uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per day

In that location'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 superlative searched creator, viewers may see a link on the lookout page to the featured creator's channel, with the option to subscribe. This characteristic makes it easier for viewers to find new creators and subscribe to their channels.

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

How to remove a tag

If you created the video, you can 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 name on the lookout page and choose to remove yourself from the video or from all videos y'all're tagged in on this channel.

Upload over mobile network vs. Wi-Fi

You can change the blazon of connection used to upload your videos.

  1. Tap your contour picture .
  2. Tap Settings.
  3. In the "Uploads" box, plow "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 watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you lot upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the best style to brandish the content. For the best experience, don't add black confined 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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