Upload videos

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

Notation: This feature may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more than hither.

Upload videos

Apply 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 square or vertical aspect ratio, it volition be uploaded as a Short. Learn more.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than sixty seconds and has a square or vertical aspect ratio, you can tap "Edit into a Brusque" to trim your video and upload it as a Brusque. Learn more than.
  3. TapSide by side.
  4. Add together your video details and tapNEXT.
    • Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is individual. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin can change this setting to make their video public, individual, or unlisted.
  5. Select "Aye, information technology's made for kids" or "No, it'due south not made for kids" to cull your audience. Larn more about made for kids.
  6. Tap Age brake (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 than about historic period restriction.
  7. Tap UPLOAD to publish your video.

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

Lookout man an example

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

Upload on YouTube on your Android phone or tablet

Learn more than near uploading videos

How many videos yous tin can upload per 24-hour interval

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

"Featured in this video" section on Android

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

A diverse group of pinnacle searched creators on YouTube are tagged automatically. Creators cannot be tagged manually.

How to remove a tag

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

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

Upload over mobile network vs. Wi-Fi

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

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

Learn the divergence 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 with access to lookout man it.

Upload vertical videos

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