Verify it's yous

To help protect your business relationship, you may need to prove it's yous when you sign in or try to complete sensitive actions like:

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

For YouTube channel owners, you may be asked to verify it's you when you lot perform certain actions inside YouTube Studio.

Employ your phone or security key

To prove it's yous, accept a phone or security primal available that's been registered to your account for at to the lowest degree vii days. Y'all can use:

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

Tip: If y'all have a Google Account through work, you may exist asked to verify information technology's you with your corporate device.

If you're asked to verify information technology'south you, follow the steps below. Have your phone nearby, and if possible, make sure information technology's connected to the cyberspace.

  1. On the "Verify it'south you" screen, complete the task or select More than means to verify. Yous'll have some or all of these options:
    • Go a prompt sent to your phone.
    • Become a verification code by text.
    • Get a security lawmaking on your Android device.
    • Apply your screen lock or fingerprint on your Android device.
    • Employ a security cardinal that'south been added to your Google Business relationship.
  2. Follow the on-screen instructions and utilize your phone when prompted.

Why you might get this step

This actress footstep helps protect your account. If someone finds out your username and password, this step helps end them from taking certain sensitive actions in your account.

Learn how to brand your account more secure.

Gear up bug

Can't complete a sensitive action

If y'all're signed in to your Google Account only can't verify it's you to complete an action, go to the relevant section below.

You can't utilise your phone

Your Android device is offline

If your Android phone isn't connected to the internet, you can still use it to verify it'south you.

  1. On the Google sign-in folio, enter your username and password.
  2. If yous become the "Verify it's you" screen, tap More ways to verify and then Go a security code on your Android phone.
  3. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Your phone isn't available

If you tin can't employ your telephone or try over again from another device you apply frequently, follow these steps.

Yous don't go a phone prompt

If yous don't get a prompt within a few minutes:

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

If you lot still don't get a prompt, tap Endeavor some other way and select a unlike selection.

You lot don't get a text

If y'all don't go a text within a few minutes:

  1. Make sure the phone number you have is correct.
  2. Make sure you accept a potent network signal or that the phone is connected to Wi-Fi.
  3. Become to the sign-in screen and select Resend.
  4. If you lot still don't get a text, select More ways to verify and thenGet a security code on your Android telephone.
  5. Follow the on-screen instructions.

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

You don't get the option to verify information technology's you lot

To protect your account, yous may exist blocked from some sensitive actions when at least i of the following items hasn't been associated with your Google Account for at least vii days:

  • Phone
  • Telephone number
  • Security cardinal

Can't sign in to your Google Account

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