Upload videos

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

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Upload videos

Use the YouTube Android 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 foursquare or vertical aspect ratio, information technology will exist uploaded every bit a Short. Acquire more than.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than 60 seconds and has a square or vertical aspect ratio, you can tap "Edit into a Curt" to trim your video and upload information technology every bit a Short. Acquire more.
  3. TapNEXT.
  4. Add your video details and tapNEXT.
    • Note: The default video privacy setting for creators anile xiii–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is prepare to public. Anybody can change this setting to make their video public, individual, or unlisted.
  5. Select "Yes, information technology's made for kids" or "No, it's not made for kids" to choose your audition. Learn more about made for kids.
  6. Tap Age restriction (avant-garde) and select "Yes, restrict my video to viewers over 18" or "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over 18." Learn more about age brake.
  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.

Picket an example

If yous'd like a demo of how to upload videos in the Android app, lookout the post-obit video.

Upload on YouTube on your Android phone or tablet

Learn more near uploading videos

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

There's a limit to how many videos a aqueduct can upload each twenty-four hours. To increment your daily limit, see this article.

"Featured in this video" section on Android

If your video features a top searched creator, viewers on Android may come across a link on the watch page to the featured creator's aqueduct, with the option to subscribe. This feature makes it easier for viewers to discover new creators and subscribe to their channels.

A various group of top searched creators on YouTube are tagged automatically. Creators cannot exist tagged manually.

How to remove a tag

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

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

Upload over mobile network vs. Wi-Fi

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

  1. Tap your profile picture .
  2. Tap Settings and thenFull general.
  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 you lot publish a video, the video is available for anyone with admission to watch it.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload your video, YouTube will figure out the best way 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, foursquare, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

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