Since upgrading my iPhone X to iOS 12 sharing a video from Photos is missing the YouTube option. I can still upload to YouTube directly from the YouTube app, but does anybody know what happened to the share from Photos option?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), i5, 512 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM
In this very thread, back in October, Garyh550 shared a link to a similar discussion on YouTube Help Forum, and two posts before last (sorry, can't link to the actual post, but the topic is closed and the post should forever be two before last) JNPR_boy offered a solution that I just successfully tested. Deleting the YouTube app & restarting the iPhone brings back the icon to the Share menu in the native Photos app; sharing that way is also wicked fast (and still asks the usual question about title, description, quality, privacy, etc.). Put YouTube app back on that phone, and puff! that sharing option directly from the Photo app is gone.
This confirms what the original poster already heard from Apple Support: it is Google, not Apple, who decided to remove the sharing & force users to use the YouTube app.
how do you do this ?
when I drag a video from iphoto into youtube it says it is not a supported format.
Can you please tell me how to upload directly from the YouTube app?
Thanks!
Thank you!
No, they’re not gone at all. I’m not sure why you’re claiming they are gone in your first sentence, but then asking if they’ll be gone if you update.
IPhone 8 iOS12.1.4
Also there on my iPad running 12.1.4.
Ok, I’m downloading the update. Hoping for the best. And that share feature IS GONE from my iMac. Just for the record.
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Literally sometimes i think that old iOS 7 was better lol. I actually miss Steve Jobs !!
I talked to Apple Support about this again. This time they are saying directly that it was Google's decision to remove the sharing icon, and that various services are starting to do that to control access via their own apps.
So I guess the only alternative right now is to use the YouTube app itself to upload movies from Photos.
It's actually still easy to upload to YouTube from your iPhone. You just can't do it via share from Photos. If you go into the YouTube app you can touch the little "camera" icon at the top and (1) select a video from your iPhone, (2) take a recording, (3) or go live.
It suddenly occurred to me to check whether sharing to YouTube was still possible via iMovie, and sure enough, it is. This entails installing iMovie (a large app, but you can offload or delete it when you don't need it), importing videos from Photos and then tap the share icon. You'll see Youtube in there. Obviously more involved than the old way, but an option. Uploading videos from phone from within YT doesn't seem to work. It says the videos are "invalid".
Yes, but it doesn't give you the HD option when you upload from Youtube app.
Sharing videos in YouTube from Photos app gone in iOS 12?
