Upload videos

You 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.

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

Upload videos

Employ 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, it volition be uploaded as a Brusk. Larn more.
    • (Optional) If your video is longer than 60 seconds and has a square or vertical aspect ratio, you tin tap "Edit into a Short" to trim your video and upload information technology as a Brusque. Learn more than.
  3. TapNEXT.
  4. Add your video details and tapSide by side.
    • Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged thirteen–17 is private. If yous're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin can alter this setting to brand their video public, private, or unlisted.
  5. Select "Yes, it's made for kids" or "No, it'south non made for kids" to choose your audition. Acquire more most fabricated for kids.
  6. Tap Age restriction (avant-garde) and select "Yep, restrict my video to viewers over 18" or "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over 18." Learn more about age 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.

Watch an example

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

Upload on YouTube on your Android telephone or tablet

Learn more about uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per day

There'south a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day. To increment your daily limit, encounter this article.

"Featured in this video" section on Android

If your video features a peak searched creator, viewers on Android may encounter a link on the sentinel page to the featured creator'southward channel, with the option to subscribe. This feature makes it easier for viewers to discover new creators and subscribe to their channels.

A various grouping of elevation 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 cull to remove them from the video.

If you're tagged in a video, you tin can tap on your name on the lookout man page 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 tin can change the type of connection used to upload your videos.

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

Learn the deviation between "upload" and "publish"

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

When you lot publish a video, the video is bachelor for anyone with admission to watch information technology.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload your video, YouTube will figure out the best way to display the content. For the all-time experience, 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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