Verify it's you

To help protect your account, you may need to prove it's you when you sign in or endeavor to complete sensitive deportment like:

  • View activity saved in your Google Account.
  • Alter your countersign.
  • View saved passwords.
  • Turn on 2-Stride Verification.
  • Download your data.

For YouTube channel owners, y'all may be asked to verify it'south yous when you perform certain actions within YouTube Studio.

Use your phone or security fundamental

To show it'south yous, have a phone or security key available that's been registered to your account for at to the lowest degree 7 days. You tin can utilize:

  • The phone with the recovery telephone number for your account.
  • A phone that's signed in to your Google Account. Larn how to sign in on your phone.
  • A security key that's been added to your Google Business relationship. This option is only available if you lot've turned on two-Step Verification.

Tip: If you have a Google Business relationship through work, you lot may be asked to verify information technology'southward you with your corporate device.

If y'all're asked to verify information technology'due south you, follow the steps beneath. Accept your phone nearby, and if possible, brand certain it's continued to the net.

  1. On the "Verify it's yous" screen, complete the chore or select More ways to verify. Yous'll have some or all of these options:
    • Get a prompt sent to your telephone.
    • Go a verification lawmaking past text.
    • Get a security code on your Android device.
    • Use your screen lock or fingerprint on your Android device.
    • Utilise a security key that's been added to your Google Account.
  2. Follow the on-screen instructions and utilize your phone when prompted.

Why you might get this footstep

This actress stride helps protect your account. If someone finds out your username and password, this step helps stop them from taking sure sensitive actions in your business relationship.

Learn how to make your account more secure.

Set problems

Can't complete a sensitive activity

If you lot're signed in to your Google Account but can't verify it's you to complete an activity, go to the relevant section below.

You tin't use your telephone

Your Android device is offline

If your Android phone isn't continued to the internet, you tin still use it to verify it'south yous.

  1. On the Google sign-in folio, enter your username and countersign.
  2. If you lot get the "Verify it's you" screen, tap More ways to verify and then Get a security code on your Android telephone.
  3. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Your phone isn't available

If you can't utilise your phone or try again from some other device you use oft, follow these steps.

You don't get a phone prompt

If you lot don't become a prompt within a few minutes:

  1. Make sure your phone is connected to the internet. To go prompts, you demand Wi-Fi or mobile information turned on.
  2. Ostend that y'all're signed in to your account on your phone.
  3. Go to the sign-in screen and tap Resend.

If y'all nonetheless don't get a prompt, tap Effort another mode and select a different choice.

You don't get a text

If you don't get a text within a few minutes:

  1. Make sure the phone number you have is correct.
  2. Brand certain you lot have a strong network bespeak or that the phone is connected to Wi-Fi.
  3. Get to the sign-in screen and select Resend.
  4. If you yet don't become a text, select More than ways to verify and thenGet a security lawmaking on your Android telephone.
  5. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Learn more than about how to get a security code on your Android device.

You don't become the option to verify it'due south you lot

To protect your account, you may be blocked from some sensitive actions when at least ane of the following items hasn't been associated with your Google Account for at least 7 days:

  • Phone
  • Telephone number
  • Security key

Can't sign in to your Google Account

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