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This tutorial will show you step by step how to create and verify a YouTube account without using your own phone number but by SMS verification using a OTP bypass online service.
YouTube account verification
If you verify your account with a phone number you will unlock additional features on YouTube.
Due to the fact that Google only allows you to verify two YouTube accounts (channels) per year with your phone number. It appears to be difficult to verify YouTube account without additional phone number.
Maybe you don’t have a phone number, or you might not want to use your own phone number for verification. So what are we supposed to do to bypass YouTube verification?
If you want to create more than two accounts (channels) then you will have to use another method, which we will describe in a minute.
Why does YouTube ask for your phone number?
YouTube asks for your phone number to verify your identity and to protect their community from spam and abuse. Let us now turn to our consistent way to bypass YouTube verification with virtual fake phone number.
How to create and verify a YouTube account without your phone number using SMS-man
SMS-MAN Web is an online service that provides people with a virtual number that they can use for texting and accounts verification.
This service can also be used to verify all kinds of online accounts, such as Google Voice, Gmail, Instagram, Discord, and more.
Step-by-step instructions to get virtual number and start YouTube verification process:
1. Go to https://sms-man.com/.
2. Sign up with Facebook, Google or your email address and log into your SMS-man account.
3. On the main page you will see list of countries and services. Select the desired country.
4. Then click the button “Show all services” and enter Google, YouTube, Gmail service, and click “Buy” button.
5. you will see your virtual number for SMS at the top of the main page.
6. You can use this virtual number to verify your online accounts.
7. Go to YouTube application or web version https://www.youtube.com/.
8. Click on your profile photo (top right corner) and then click on “YouTube Studio”.
9. Then open YouTube Settings and go to “channel” tab and click on the “feature eligibility”.
10. Open “Features that require phone verification” and click on “verify phone number” button.
How to bypass YouTube phone number verification
We will now begin the verification process, follow the instructions below to bypass phone number verification.
1. Select “Text me the verification code” and your country of virtual number.
2. At “What is your phone number?”, you enter your fake phone number you bought on SMS-man.
3. Click on “GET CODE”. An account verification page will open. Don’t close this page.
4. Go back to SMS-man.
5. Click on the “get SMS” button to check if you already received the verification code from YouTube.
It may take a while for the message to arrive. So be patient and click on the button every few minutes.
6. After you receive the text message with the verification code, you will need to go back to the YouTube account verification page, and enter the 6-digit verification code.
Vyacheslav is SEO expert at SMS-MAN. He also writes on virtual numbers and SMS verification issues on SMS-man Blog.
You can reach Vyacheslav at: z@sms-man.com