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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?
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Where is what app? With the YouTube app itself you can share videos from the iPhone Photos camera roll. So obviously YouTube is supporting that feature.
What disappeared was the sharing link from within Photos itself.
It's not at all obvious to me that it was Google who decided to remove it, or Apple who decided to remove it, or perhaps it was a technical oversight on the part of Apple or Google.
After all, since they allow sharing to YouTube in their app they do want iPhone users to share their videos.
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.
before = sharing a video from Photos is missing the YouTube option.
after = I can still upload to YouTube directly from the YouTube app,
This makes it sound like a Youtube choice to me, not Apple.
There's no conclusion there either. One person says it's Google's fault and another says it's Apple's fault.
The bottom line is we really won't know for sure until we hear from either Google/YouTube or Apple. Otherwise it's just supposition, right?
You might think that, but they recovered the access of amazon from vewing the YouTube channel from the amazon show. The reason; they short afterwords came came out with their own version of the Alexa show. See below;
Hey maybe it is because I worked in a $20 billion dollar company and know what marketing wars go on and because now I own my own company I know what chest game it is to win market shares.
Googles version of the aleaxa show with youtube, after they blocked amazon.
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-smart-displays-hit-this-july-with-youtube-tv/
If you keep up with the times google now has it own cell phones, how do that the iPhone now does not have the ability to upload YouTube videos and Apple has basically no comment on the issue.........
https://www.wired.com/story/google-htc-smartphone-agreement/
PS and except from the artic just as I had stated previously......
Google owns YouTube, and it will want to push this integration as far as possible to give its smart displays an advantage over the Echo Show. Google pulled YouTube rights from the Show last fall in an ongoing dispute between the two companies. With YouTube and YouTube TV, you'll certainly be able to watch a lot more video on Google's smart displays, but I'm not sure I'd want to sit down and watch a TV show on one of these small screens
YouTube’s ‘Signature Devices’ For Watching Videos Does Not Include The iPhone
On YouTube’s program page, the company has highlighted that the recommended handsets can “deliver the best-in-class YouTube experience by combining next-generation technologies.” A Signature Device recommended by YouTube should be capable of playing HDR videos, 360-degree videos and much more coupled with quick video load times.
At this point, we have to wonder what the prerequisites are for a device to be regarded as the ‘YouTube Signature Device”. According to YouTube, the handset must support a series of features which includes HDR, reliable DRM performance, high frame rate, 4K decoding, and next-generation video codec support.
At this point in time, there are 19 Signature devices according to YouTube which includes the recently announced Galaxy Note 9, Google Piel 2 And Pixel 2 XL, HTC U12+, Galaxy S9 and more. However, there is no model of the iPhone part of the list, not even the iPhone X which features one of the best displays on a smartphone
YouTube’s ‘Signature Devices’ For Watching Videos Does Not Include The iPhone
On YouTube’s program page, the company has highlighted that the recommended handsets can “deliver the best-in-class YouTube experience by combining next-generation technologies.” A Signature Device recommended by YouTube should be capable of playing HDR videos, 360-degree videos and much more coupled with quick video load times.
At this point, we have to wonder what the prerequisites are for a device to be regarded as the ‘YouTube Signature Device”. According to YouTube, the handset must support a series of features which includes HDR, reliable DRM performance, high frame rate, 4K decoding, and next-generation video codec support.
At this point in time, there are 19 Signature devices according to YouTube which includes the recently announced Galaxy Note 9, Google Piel 2 And Pixel 2 XL, HTC U12+, Galaxy S9 and more. However, there is no model of the iPhone part of the list, not even the iPhone X which features one of the best displays on a smartphone
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.
Yes very sad as I expected Doug, we are just pawns in the big corporate power game. Unfortunately I had to spend the time and load the video it took the other day onto my office computer and use YouTube to upload it from my desktop. Not fun and it took a long time rather than the old method which was just clicking on the video on the phone and selecting it to load to YouTube.
I was so ****** when all of a sudden you could not get YouTube on the Echo Show, there was no warning at all from amazon nor an explanation. I told friends of mine at the time I bet that google who owns YouTube will be soon coming out with a product so they froze out amazo. Sure enough almost a year later they came out with a device. Now that they have a cell phone business they froze out Apple with uploading videos. It is all about bringing down the competitio, once again.
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.
As mentioned above, if your YouTube access settings in the main iPhone settings are set to allow access you will see a little video camera icon at the top right of the YouTube app. If you touch that you can upload videos from your Photos library.
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".
But Sir this is a remarkable issue. Because when we upload video using youtube app, resolution drops. And when there was an option in photos app to share via youtube, the reaolution of uploaded video used to be higher.
Sharing videos in YouTube from Photos app gone in iOS 12?
