YouTube: Verify your account
To use all video features on YouTube, you must first verify your account. You can then upload videos that are longer than 15 minutes, for example, or activate the livestream.
Confirm your own YouTube account
- Log in to YouTube.
- Go to the address to verify your account in your browser.
- Now you have to confirm your account with your mobile phone number. Select whether you would like to receive the confirmation code by SMS or voice call and enter your mobile number.
- Then select your country.
- Click Submit. After a short time you should receive the confirmation code.
- Finally enter the six-digit code and click on "Send". You will then receive a confirmation when you have successfully verified your account.
We will tell you in another practical tip how you can then define the default settings for video uploads.