How to upload iPhone videos to YouTube

July 5, 2009

“I shot some cool videos from my iPhone 3GS but I can’t figure out how to upload it to YouTube from my phone. I’m pretty sure there’s a way to do this but I just haven’t found that magical “upload to YouTube” button.”

First thing you’ll need is a YouTube account. Don’t have one? That can me solved by signing up for one here. Make it easy on yourself and do this on the computer and not your iPhone.

Alright lets get to the meat of this tutorial on uploading iPhone videos to Youtube:

View your iPhone video by going to the Photo gallery and in Camera roll.

Click on the little box with an arrow sticking out in the left hand corner.

Box with arrow

You should now get the option to “Email video” and “Send to Youtube”, click on the “Send to Youtube” button.

Log into your Youtube account and tap “Sign in”.

Enter the Title, then a quick description, tags, and then choose a Category for your video. When you’re finished with all the description stuff, press the “Publish” button on the top right hand side.

Enter some video info

The iPhone video will now upload to YouTube, give it a few minutes until you see a dialogue box that comes up giving you the option to “View on Youtube” or “Tell a friend”. Enjoy!

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Foolish Sage July 6, 2009 at 8:27 am

I’ve been uploading videos to YouTube fine…until this morning. For the past 5 hours when I try to upload, while I’m typing in the description, tags, etc., I get a pop up that says “YouTube not available. Any idea what’s going on?

Bouncers Bounce House Inflatables July 17, 2009 at 10:36 pm

I was using this very helpful info-THANK YOU! and realized that the phone was following my email account to a particular youTube account. How can I point it to another account I own?

Thank you!

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Aaron Shaw March 9, 2011 at 1:59 pm

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marvin March 12, 2011 at 4:08 pm

When i do this yeah, when i sign into my fucking account after clicking the send to youtube button, i always enter my username and password correct, and it just keeps coming back telling me to enter it again, so basically it wont accept my username and password, but i have another account, and it accepts it for that one, but why not the other one?

benny March 20, 2011 at 6:39 pm

EVERY TIME I TRY TO POST A VIDEO TO YOUTUBE IT SAYS IT CAN NOT PUBLISH VIDEO. WHAT CAN I DO?

Nguyet Guercio April 24, 2011 at 12:31 am

I don’t unremarkably comment but I gotta state regards for the post on this perfect one : D.

jo May 2, 2011 at 10:28 pm

hey thanx, help me a lot :) make me fall in love with my iPhone 4 again and again ^o^

rachel October 30, 2011 at 3:01 am

omg thanks !!!i can finally post my videos on youtube by the iphone.

Ally November 16, 2011 at 4:23 pm

Thanx so much for this!! But i was wondering how to change the upload location. Like it tells me its going to upload to “this accout” and i cant find how to switch accounts. Any ideas?

Patrick L December 27, 2011 at 2:53 pm

every time I try to upload a video it says the username and password failed….even though I can easily log into youtube from my iphone via the youtube app and page/

what’s wrong?

Austin b December 29, 2011 at 5:35 pm

Does this use data from my data plan? Cause I plan on uploading often but do not want to go over my data plan.

Jessica O January 2, 2012 at 3:57 pm

I’d also like to switch accounts like Ally. I have more than one YouTube account, but it seems like I can only upload to the first account that I logged in with and there’s no way of switching. Any ideas? Thank you!

Savaak February 17, 2012 at 10:20 pm

trying to upload vidoe to youtube with ipod touch.I enter user name and password but it keeps coming up.what am i doing wrong

ItzExoTiiQz March 2, 2012 at 2:10 pm

I Made A New Channel And Now I Do Send To Youtube And It Sends To My Old Youtube How Can I Change It

jodi March 27, 2012 at 7:02 pm

it is saying i need a tag….was is a tag??????/

Pauline April 9, 2012 at 3:56 pm

I have a 3 minute video I would like to post on youtube that is currently on my iPhone. It is too long to send via e-mail to anyone, so I am being told!! Then youtube came into play but I needed a UN and PW. So, I went to the youtube site and ‘signed up.’ Having created this new e-address above. However, when now try to send my 3 minute video to youtube I am told that youtube cannot ‘authenticate’ my UN and PW. WHAT am I doing incorrectly???
Thank you. Pauline

Christina g April 17, 2012 at 11:39 am

i just published a video from my iphone,, but cant find it in you tube? what could be the problem?

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