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

I just noticed today I have the same issue/problem and I am very frustrated. I use a new iphone SE on 14.3. The YouTube app does NOT have an upload button and iMovie doesn't have the YouTube app any longer as an upload option. I am very frustrated.

That’s not the real problem. The biggest problem is saving it to your camera roll, you’re unable to post in 4K when you do it that way. When you shared it through the iMovie app before, it retained the 4K quality that these new iPhones have. When you save it to your phone then upload through the YouTube app, it knocks it down to 1080. That’s the biggest issue. And idk how apple doesn’t realize that they just took that away. No use in having these high quality phones if you can’t share your content literally anywhere in the actual quality it’s filmed in. Heck, I don’t mind saving it to my camera roll if it was just upload to YouTube in 4K and not 1080.

I’m having the same problem. I literally got this phone for the ease of using iMovie and uploading 4K. If they don’t fix this soon I’m finally going to give I’m and get a Google phone like my husband has been saying all along. Bye 🍎. I was once the most loyal customer.

I was completely upset about the YouTube icon disappearing from iMovie like everyone else, so in hopes of getting it back through deleting iMovie and YouTube and reinstalling, it was to no avail. Dejected, I edited and uploaded a video of our Christmas Day activities that’s 49:31 long anyway. It took all night to upload through the YouTube app and took over a day to process. When I looked at it this morning, much to my surprise it looked perfect! 1440p60HDR! I’m sure it’s still going through more processing and will soon be at 2160p60HDR. It appears YouTube got their act together, and could be the reason why the icon disappeared from iMovie and everywhere else in our phones. A word of caution though. Make sure in YouTube’s upload settings that “original quality” is checked. Otherwise it will only upload at 1080p.

So I guess what I’m wondering is, if you make a movie in iMovie with multiple clips put together in 4K, save it to your camera roll, then upload it through the YouTube app, if it eventually processes in 4K? Kinda like your video did.

Does it take a while to go to 4K? Mine is still at 1080p, and it was only a 17 second video. Maybe it’s still processing. I know when I use to upload through iMovie, it would take a while to get to HDR 2060 or whatever it is, but didn’t think it would take very long for a 17 second test video. I set it to full quality in settings.

Thank you so much for this tip! At least I can upload in the full 4k quality now...although I haven’t tested this yet. Hopefully it’ll work when I go to upload a video.

Ever since buying the 11 Pro Max, I’ve been very upset that you can’t record in HDR on this phone. I probably would of gone with a Samsung phone that can shoot in HDR10/+ instead. They’ve at least supported this for the past few phone generations now. It’s crazy a phone that they label as a “Pro” model, doesn’t even support HDR10 video recording. Then they smack me in the face and come out with the iPhone 12 that records in DV.

Apple has seriously left a sour taste in my mouth. Sorry...had to get that off my chest. I just wish they’d allow HDR10 video capture on the 11 Pro Max. That’s all I want. I don’t need DV, although it would definitely be nice.

I seriously thought I was the only one. I’m a content creator as well and I was super frustrated. I attempted to do airdrop from my iPhone to my iMac and kept getting “ not able to export “ looked at my iMac and it said “ airdrop fail “. I hope they figure something out soon, because I’m not happy I have to do all these extra steps.

Yeah and everyone says to save the video to my photos and download it from YouTube but I don’t have a download option on YouTube. Or do I have to log into it from my browser? I’ll try that too. But I never had a download option on my YouTube app.

I hope apple will lose many customers over this ********. It was easy and convenient. I see android phone as my upgrade tome coming by.

I bet both of my testicles it’s Apple who eliminated that ability got millions of customers. Now my shiny iPhone 12 Pro Max is just a video camera.

I just thought I’d try something new. The $30 software has some features that are nice but it’s far more complicated for every day use and I would like. iMovie worked so well and I think it’s really *********** that they don’t at least put forth the reason four severing the ties.

Firsts world problem indeed. third world using Android phones. But taking features out is at least disrespect to customers.

why pinterest and facebook links options still intact? Screw you apple for ruining perfect workflow.

Actually third world phones are better. The only reason I am with apple is ecosystem. I like Apple services and integration. Removing YouTube is awful step because Apple is known for convenience and removing option of uploading to you tube is defeating its own business model . Funny thing is its still available on MacBook version of iMovie.

Seems like Apple is going through some mid life crisis where it fails to understand we the people made them great and we can take them down from its throne.

Very annoying since it‘s the only way to upload in 4K from the iPhone. I only have a Windows PC and transferring data to that without having to use my slow internet another time is also almost impossible. Really considering to not buy an iPhone anymore if it stays like this.

I’m experiencing this exact thing right now. I just switched back to an iPhone and just edited a video in iMovie that I want to upload to YouTube, and I see no YouTube app anywhere! It’s not even an option after I saved my completed video to my own files. What the ****?! I was looking forward to this ease of use that I had before.