Q&A for How to Make Your YouTube Video Private

You can do this in your channel's dashboard for an existing video or right when uploading a new video. When you click "Share Privately" you just type the email addresses of the people who you want to see the video.

Go to your channel's dashboard and click "Videos" in the sidebar to the left. Change the video's visibility level to "private" and type their email addresses in the box. They will get a notification in their inbox that has the link to the video. That's the only way someone can view a private video.

No. Private videos don't have a comment section and there's no setting to change that. There's no way to add comments to a private video even with the certain people you shared it with. If you want comments on a video that's not available to the public, change the video settings to unlisted.

A person might want to make this change to keep the video's content open to themselves only, or perhaps viewable by family or friends only. For example, they might have made the video public in error, they might not want other people seeing their children or family members, they might be tired of receiving feedback from a troll or they might have accidentally included information that could reveal their location, personal details or something else that they want kept private.

It could be for any number of reasons. For example, private videos are usually personal content. Family videos/photos, school projects, and the like are often kept private. They usually contain information that could give away the location of the uploader or anyone else in the video. Many of them are only important or valuable to a small group of insiders, such as family members, friends, or classmates. Some people upload private videos for only themselves to view. Private videos can also be used for collaborations/projects between a few people to work on before the project is finished.

Yes, as the video will be hidden from everyone on the site except for the uploader. The difference is, only the uploader can watch it and they can't give access to anyone else.

You can add up to 50 email addresses for viewers who can watch the private video. To remove certain email addresses, just click the X button next to the name of the address and they'll be removed from the list.

Yes. That's a common reason for a video being temporarily private. Sometimes people are momentarily too busy to work on the description/title, so they upload it as private until they're ready to work on it.

You'd have to find them in your channel's dashboard. On your channel, click "Manage videos", or click your icon at the top of the screen and click "YouTube Studio", and you will see every video you have uploaded. You can add a private video to a playlist, including right in the middle of uploading it. They will show up in a playlist, but to those who aren't allowed to watch it, it will just show as "Private video" and clicking it will result in a blank screen.