Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Utilise the instructions beneath to upload your videos from a calculator or from a mobile device.

Note: This feature may not exist available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more 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, information technology volition be uploaded as a Curt. Acquire more than.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than 60 seconds and has a square or vertical attribute ratio, you can tap "Edit into a Short" to trim your video and upload it as a Short. Learn more than.
  3. TapNEXT.
  4. Add your video details and tapNEXT.
    • Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged xiii–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone can alter this setting to brand their video public, private, or unlisted.
  5. Select "Yep, it's made for kids" or "No, it'south not made for kids" to cull your audience. Larn more than about made for kids.
  6. Tap Age restriction (avant-garde) and select "Aye, restrict my video to viewers over 18" or "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over 18." Learn more than about age restriction.
  7. Tap UPLOAD to publish your video.

Sometimes we begin uploading your video while you lot're recording the video. We 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, picket the following video.

Upload on YouTube on your Android phone or tablet

Learn more about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per 24-hour interval

In that location's a limit to how many videos a channel tin upload each day. To increase your daily limit, encounter this article.

"Featured in this video" section on Android

If your video features a top searched creator, viewers on Android may encounter a link on the watch page to the featured creator's channel, with the pick to subscribe. This feature makes information technology easier for viewers to detect new creators and subscribe to their channels.

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

How to remove a tag

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

If y'all're tagged in a video, yous can tap on your name on the picket 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 lot tin change the type of connectedness used to upload your videos.

  1. Tap your profile motion-picture show .
  2. Tap Settings and thenFull general.
  3. Tap Uploads.
  4. Choose between uploading videos over Wi-Fi or your mobile network.

Learn the divergence between "upload" and "publish"

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

When you publish a video, the video is available for anyone with access to watch it.

Upload vertical videos

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