Today you'll learn how to verify your YouTube channel in 2020 on your phone.
It's the exact same process for iPhone and Android.
Once verified, you'll be able to upload custom thumbnails,
activate the live stream feature and upload videos
longer than 15 minutes. Let's get started. You can't do the verification process
inside the YouTube app on either your iPhone or Android. Even
when you go to YouTube studio, there's no option there either to do so.
Instead, you'll need to open up a web browser
to do the verification process, and in this case I'll be using
Google Chrome on my iPhone. First, head to YouTube.com
inside the browser. And then once you're there, click the avatar at the top right
to make sure you're logged into the YouTube channel
that you want to verify. Next, in the address bar, type in
YouTube.com verify and press the go button, and this will
take you to the verification screen. The reason youtube does this
verification process is to ensure that you're a real person and not a robot,
and just to protect its community in general from people or robots spamming
or taking advantage of the system. If you have any problems with the
verification code process I'm about to show you on the phone,
stick around because later in the video I'll go over these problems and give you
some solutions on how to fix it. If when you go to YouTube.com verify you
get this message, congratulations! Your YouTube account is
already verified you don't need to do anything else.
Assuming you're not already verified, because that's what you're here for,
let's head back over to the verification page and continue.
First choose the country that your phone number corresponds to.
So I'll choose Australia here and then press done.
Then you have a choice: receive your verification code via either
an automated voice message, or a text message.
I will say that the text message option can sometimes cause some problems.
One reason is some countries don't allow you to receive text messages
from YouTube. Another reason is the text message doesn't always come straight
away, sometimes up to 15 minutes. It's tempting
to then spam the process and put your number in over and over,
because we're all impatient, me included, and YouTube will sometimes
lock you out and you may have to wait up to 24 hours.
Not good. The automated call option on the other hand is way more reliable.
It happens instantly, it works in every country and you don't actually have to
speak to someone. I'll show you both methods. So let's
start with the automated call option. Check this box here, this screen will pop
up, and you may need to scroll over a little
bit to find the confirm button. Then you just put your phone number in
and hit the submit button. And here is what it sounds like in 2020..
"Thank you for using Google phone verification.
Your code is..." (please give us a thumbs up below, and
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for more no-nonsense tutorials like this) "...five.
Goodbye." Not so scary right? Then you just put the code in and away
you go. Likewise with the text message option,
check this box, put in your phone number and hit submit.
Then you'll receive a text message that looks just like this.
And then all you need to do is copy and paste this code
and put it into this screen right here. Finally when you hit the magic 'submit'
button, you'll come to this screen. And hey,
congratulations! You're now verified. Now go up to the address bar and type in
YouTube.com/features and it'll bring you to this page.
Again here you can see that our status is now
'verified' and you can also see that we're eligible
for live streaming, longer videos and custom thumbnails.
So for now, let's just even go ahead and enable live
streaming, since we're here anyway. So click the 'enable' button. It'll open up
this screen here, and you can see that we'll be ready to live stream in 24
hours. Here are some reasons why you may be having problems with receiving your
verification code. I mentioned earlier about text message
delivery either being a problem in some countries or being late overall.
But another one to keep in mind is you can only verify two channels with one
phone number. So if your number's already been used to verify
two accounts, then you'll need to borrow someone else's phone, say a family
member's. But don't worry, this number is not kept
or sold by Google. It's solely temporarily used to verify
that you're a real person. Watch this video next where you'll learn
how to correctly set up a YouTube channel, create a brand account,
learn to design channel branding quickly and easily in free software,
plus other tips. I'll see you over there!