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Want to get started with YouTube but are not sure how to upload your first-ever video? If yous recorded with your smartphone, you tin upload your video direct to your YouTube aqueduct from your iPhone or Android device. Here's how.

How to Upload a Video to YouTube on Mobile

To upload a video to YouTube from your iPhone or Android telephone, you'll need the official YouTube app on your phone. Download and install the app on your iPhone or Android telephone, if yous haven't already washed then.

Launch the YouTube app on your phone and log in to your YouTube (Google) account. Then, from the bar at the bottom of the app, select the "+" (plus) sign.

Tap the "+" option in the YouTube app.

YouTube will open up a "Create" bill of fare. Select "Upload a Video" from this menu.

Annotation: If you desire to make a YouTube Short, tap the "Create a Short" option. Or, if you want to stream a video, tap the "Go Live" option.

Select "Upload a Video" from the "Create" menu in the YouTube app.

You'll at present see an "Upload" screen that displays all your telephone's videos. Hither, tap the video that you'd like to upload to YouTube. Then, when the video begins to play, tap "Side by side" at the top-right corner of the app.

Note: If YouTube asks to access your telephone'southward gallery, tap the "Allow Admission" option so it can access your videos.

Tap "Next" to continue the YouTube video upload process.

You're now on the "Add Details" screen. Here, tap the "Title" field and enter a title for your video. Tap "Add Description" and add a description to your video.

So tap "Public" to choose who tin can watch your video on YouTube.

Enter video details on the "Add Details" page in the YouTube app.

On the "Set Visibility" screen that opens, select one of these visibility options for your video:

  • Public: This allows anyone on YouTube to scout your video.
  • Unlisted: With this choice, only the people you share your video's link with can picket the video.
  • Private: Just you and the people you lot choose can watch the video.

Choose your video's visibility on the "Set Visibility" screen in the YouTube app.

If you'd like to release your video on YouTube at a specific time, so on the same "Set Visibility" screen, tap the "Schedule" option.

Tap "Schedule" to schedule release a video in the YouTube app.

Tap the date and time drop-downward box and cull a date and time for your video's release. Once this is washed, tap the back arrow icon at the top-left corner of the app.

Specify video's scheduled release date and time in the YouTube app.

Back to the "Add Details" screen, tap "Location" and add together a location to your video. If y'all desire to add your video to a playlist, tap the "Add to Playlists" option.

And then, at the top-correct corner of the app, select "Next."

Input video's details on the "Add Details" page in the YouTube app.

You've at present reached the "Select Audience" page. Here, you'll define for who your video is made.

If your video is meant for kids, select the "Yes, It'south Fabricated for Kids" option. Otherwise, select the "No, Information technology'south Not Made for Kids" pick. Check out YouTube's page to notice out if your video is considered to exist made for kids.

If you choose "No, It's Non Fabricated for Kids," specify further options past tapping "Age Restriction (Advanced)." Then, at the top-right corner of the app, tap "Upload."

Select the video's audience on the "Select Audience" page in the YouTube app.

Your video volition begin to upload to YouTube. When that'due south done, you tin find your uploaded videos in the Library > Your Videos section of the YouTube app.

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Access uploaded videos at Library > Your Videos in the YouTube app.

And that's how yous take the first footstep in your journey towards becoming a YouTuber!

There are several things that tin can make your video stand out on YouTube. Cheque out our how to make a skillful YouTube video guide to learn some of the video making tips.

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