My youtube app from iMovie disappeared and I can’t upload to youtube

This feature was also removed from Final Cut Pro as well. Just export your iMovie Project to a folder in Finder and upload using YouTube Studio https://studio.youtube.com. It's always good to keep an uncompressed copy of a video on your computer, if you have to download your videos [from YouTube] to edit and reupload parts, they will always look worse as now those sections will have been compressed twice. Also, in the future, iMovie versions may change drastically, and reexporting your project made in an older version of iMovie might be glitchy. I hope this helps. If you don't have enough storage on your computer, try using or purchasing an external drive to save export your Movies too. However I warn you, do no save iMovie Projects to cloud storage providers other than Apple, because it may mess with the file, as the iMovie project is recognised as a folder by other OSes.

I read this whole thread, and spent a day researching. And now I just rechecked my YouTube channel and it is in 4K

in IMovie, before you had to save the video there’s a little blue options button you can hit that and then select 4K. Actually does save it to your camera roll in 4K and in HDR. You’ll even get the HDR logo when you watch it on your phone. Then I just open the YouTube app and upload it from the camera roll. It took about 12 hours of it being published on YouTube before it converted and showed the 4K but it did actually all work in 4K. I think maybe a month has gone by and all the apps and software has been updated.

but saving iMovie to photos(selecting save in 4K) and then uploading to YouTube, all in iPhone, will result in 4K video on YouTube. :)

Yeah, that's the new feature that should make sharing easier. But it's actually more complicated ... Now the only option is to save your video to photos and then publish it from the YouTube app.

You can read more on those two links:

Apple streamlines sharing to Vimeo, YouTube, and Facebook with Final Cut Pro, Clips, and iMovie (idownloadblog.com)

Share to YouTube, Facebook, or Vimeo from Apple video apps - Apple Support

No, edit in iMovie then RECORD in YOUR PHOTOS, go to YouTube”STUDIO” go to “CREATE” in YouTube STUDIO and upload from your MY PHOTOS or photo gallery etc, then create your YouTube video. I do it all the time.

Update : while saving to photos I selected 60fps and saved . Then I uploaded to YouTube from my photo gallery, it uploaded with 4k resolution. It took close to 10 hrs after upload to change the resolution to 4k

Yes, that’s what I did. The project is still saved in iMovie for editing later, but to upload to YouTube, the extra step of saving it to your camera roll at the highest setting is now the only way it can be done. It takes up extra space, but after you upload, you can go back and delete it; the exported video that is.

I lost the youtube icon for uploading off my ipad. Then I started using iMovie to upload to youtube. After a few months the option for uploading to youtube disappeared.

I am now using this solution. It will probably work on any device you are using that has your video on it (ex: iphone, ipad).

Make sure you can use that device to go straight to youtube.

Go to youtube on your device.

Instead of looking for the camera icon (which is now gone) instead look for the "+" sign in a circle at the bottom.

Tap that and then you can now find your video and upload as you did before, adding video name and description, etc.

It has worked fine for the last 3 videos I've uploaded (which are over 1 hour long - they are our church services)

I also noticed they they upload faster than the methods I used before.

Hopefully the "+" sign won't disappear from youtube next!

best option is to restore the previous version of iMovie using time machine and ignore any new updates

To circumvent this I transfer/copy my iMovie to my device then go to YouTube STUDIO. There is an upload function in YouTube STUDIO to upload to YouTube.

Record your movie in your PHOTOS, open YouTube STUDIO, click on CREATE top right, follow instructions.

You’ll need to save your project to your camera roll then go to your YT account on your iphone and hit the plus button then select the video you want to upload. Thanks Apple for making this really complicated again.

After trying multiple different apps, I have found Videoshop to be the best app for 4K. You do have to pay for the pro service ($23.99/ yr.) to access the 4K feature. It has the capability to upload directly to YouTube once you create your video. I felt this annual fee is minimal and worth it. Hope this helps.

There is a workaround:

You have to open studio.youtube.com in Safari and not open the app and upload the video through the site. It is then recognized as HDR and 4K content.

I’ll look in to that. For now, I figured it out! I was just a bit slow. Not the easy way it SHOULD be, but just had to add (+) a video right in YouTube. ✅

After you use IMovie, or whatever app, to edit your video, pull up YouTube from your device. At the bottom there is no a + sign within a circle. It does the same thing as the old movie projector icon that use to be on YouTube. I have had no issues since I've started doing it that way.