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Want to have started with YouTube but are not sure how to upload your first-e'er video? If you recorded with your smartphone, you can upload your TV directly to your YouTube channel from your iPhone or Android device. Here's how.

How to Upload a Video recording to YouTube on Mobile

To upload a video to YouTube from your iPhone surgery Android phone, you'll need the official YouTube app happening your phone. Download and install the app on your iPhone or Humanoid sound, if you haven't already done so.

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 a "Create" menu. Select "Upload a Video" from this menu.

Note: If you want to take in a YouTube Short, tap the "Create a Short" option. Or, if you want to stream a video, tap the "Get going Live" selection.

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

You'll in real time see an "Upload" screen that displays all your phone's videos. Here, tap the video that you'd same 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 phone's gallery, tap the "Allow Access" pick so IT can access your videos.

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

You're now on the "Bring Inside information" screen. Here, spigot the "Title" field and enter a championship for your video. Tap "Add Verbal description" and lend a description to your video.

Then tap "Public" to prefer who can watch your telecasting on YouTube.

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

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

  • Public: This allows anyone on YouTube to watch your video.
  • Unlisted: With this option, only the citizenry you share your video's link with can watch the video recording.
  • Private: Only you and the people you choose can vigil the telecasting.

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, then happening the same "Set Visibility" silver screen, wiretap the "Docket" option.

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

Tap the date and time drop-descending loge and choose a date and fourth dimension for your video's release. Erst this is done, hydrant 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, pat "Location" and add a fix to your video. If you want to add your TV to a play list, tap the "Tote up to Playlists" option.

Then, at the top-right quoin of the app, select "Next."

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

You've today reached the "Choice Audience" varlet. Here, you'll define for WHO your video is ready-made.

If your video is meant for kids, select the "Yes, Information technology's Ready-made for Kids" pick. Otherwise, pick out the "No, It's Not Made for Kids" pick. Look into YouTube's page to feel out if your video is considered to be made for kids.

If you choose "Nobelium, IT's Not Successful for Kids," specify further options by tapping "Age Restriction (Advanced)." Then, at the crown-right corner of the app, tap "Upload."

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

Your video will begin to upload to YouTube. When that's done, you can notic your uploaded videos in the Depository library > Your Videos incision of the YouTube app.

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

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

There are several things that can make your video stand out on YouTube. Check out our how to make a good YouTube video manoeuvre to learn some of the video making tips.

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