Verify it'south yous

To help protect your account, you may need to prove it'south yous when y'all sign in or try to consummate sensitive deportment similar:

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

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

Use your telephone or security key

To evidence it'southward you, have a phone or security key available that's been registered to your account for at to the lowest degree 7 days. You tin use:

  • The phone with the recovery phone 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'south been added to your Google Account. This choice is only bachelor if you've turned on ii-Stride Verification.

Tip: If you accept a Google Business relationship through piece of work, you may be asked to verify it's you with your corporate device.

If you lot're asked to verify it'southward you, follow the steps below. Accept your phone nearby, and if possible, make certain it's connected to the internet.

  1. On the "Verify information technology's yous" screen, complete the task or select More than ways to verify. You lot'll have some or all of these options:
    • Get a prompt sent to your phone.
    • Get a verification code by 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 use your phone when prompted.

Why you might go this pace

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

Learn how to brand your account more secure.

Ready problems

Tin can't complete a sensitive action

If you're signed in to your Google Account simply tin't verify it's you to complete an action, go to the relevant department below.

Yous tin can't use your phone

Your Android device is offline

If your Android phone isn't continued to the internet, you can still employ information technology to verify information technology'due south you.

  1. On the Google sign-in page, enter your username and password.
  2. If you get the "Verify information technology's y'all" screen, tap More means to verify and then Become a security code on your Android telephone.
  3. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Your telephone isn't available

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

You don't go a phone prompt

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

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

If you lot withal don't get a prompt, tap Try another mode and select a different option.

You don't become a text

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

  1. Make sure the phone number you have is right.
  2. Make sure yous accept a stiff network signal or that the phone is connected to Wi-Fi.
  3. Go to the sign-in screen and select Resend.
  4. If you nonetheless don't become a text, select More ways to verify and thenGet a security code on your Android phone.
  5. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Acquire more than well-nigh how to become a security code on your Android device.

You don't become the option to verify it'southward you

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

  • Telephone
  • Phone number
  • Security key

Can't sign in to your Google Business relationship

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