Upload videos

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

Annotation: This feature may non be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more than here.

Upload videos

Use the YouTube Android app to upload videos past 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 sixty seconds or less and has a foursquare or vertical attribute ratio, it will exist uploaded equally a Short. Learn more than.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than sixty seconds and has a foursquare or vertical aspect ratio, you tin can tap "Edit into a Short" to trim your video and upload it every bit a Short. Larn more.
  3. TapNEXT.
  4. Add together your video details and tapNext.
    • Notation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged thirteen–17 is individual. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone can change this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.
  5. Select "Yes, it'southward made for kids" or "No, it's non fabricated for kids" to choose your audition. Acquire more well-nigh fabricated for kids.
  6. Tap Age brake (advanced) and select "Yes, restrict my video to viewers over 18" or "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over xviii." Acquire more about age restriction.
  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.

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If yous'd like a demo of how to upload videos in the Android app, picket the following video.

Upload on YouTube on your Android telephone or tablet

Learn more about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per mean solar day

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

"Featured in this video" section on Android

If your video features a height searched creator, viewers on Android may run into a link on the scout page to the featured creator'due south channel, with the pick to subscribe. This feature makes it easier for viewers to discover new creators and subscribe to their channels.

A diverse group of tiptop searched creators on YouTube are tagged automatically. Creators cannot exist tagged manually.

How to remove a tag

If you created the video, you tin tap on the featured creator's name and choose to remove them from the video.

If you lot're tagged in a video, you lot can tap on your name on the watch page and cull to remove yourself from the video or from all videos yous're tagged in on this channel.

Upload over mobile network vs. Wi-Fi

You can alter the blazon of connexion used to upload your videos.

  1. Tap your contour picture show .
  2. Tap Settings and thenGeneral.
  3. Tap Uploads.
  4. Choose between uploading videos over Wi-Fi or your mobile network.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

When y'all publish a video, the video is available for anyone with admission to watch information technology.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload your video, YouTube volition figure out the best way to display the content. For the all-time experience, don't add together 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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