I Deleted My YouTube Account By Mistake – How Can I Get It Back ?
I Deleted My YouTube Account By Mistake – How Can I Get It Back ?
Here’s how you can recover your YouTube account which you would have deleted by mistake :
1> Contact YouTube’s Customer Support – go to http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/request.py
2> You’ll have a couple of options under ‘Contact Us’, select ‘Account Issue’
3> Click on ‘Continue’
4> Click on ‘Reopen account’
5> And then Click on ‘Contact Us’
You’ll land in a new page where you have to enter your YouTube username and the Associated Email Address. Verify if you are entering the right YouTube username as this is very important. You can check if your Username is correct by replacing USERNAME in http://www.youtube.com/user/USERNAME and opening the URL in a new tab / window.
You can reopen your account this way, but the personal details related your account will be deleted for ever, like the videos and comments associated with that account cannot be restored.
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how long does it take before the account is restored
Normal process takes anywhere from 24 – 72 hrs. In unique cases where YouTube staff finds something fishy, it can take upto 14 days.
Video and comment can’t be restored, Right?
But how about Friends, Subscriber and favorite? Can be restore?
@Renzel – Any meta data related to the user will be deleted, when you delete your account, Which means, except for your username, all other details related to you – your videos, comments, friends, subscribers, favorite, everything will be deleted.
wait so.. i put my username in which is closed and my email i used for that account right?
@confused – You are right.
Hi,
Youtube support had sent email to me saying my deleted account has been restored. But when I tried to log in numerous times – I can’t, it directs me back to the youtube homepage with a tag at the top asking me to ‘Please check your username’. Funny coz I know i signed in the correct username. I’ve always signed in (prior to me deleting my account) using my gmail google account (the same one when I created the account and log in as well).
Any ideas? Thanks.
You have to go to:
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/request.py?contact_type=reopenaccount
to reopen your account..
Shot bo!!! I need everything delleted people are calling me a runescape nerd
ok..im in a stick situation.
1. i have this account i want to reopen cos i deleted it by accident.
2. after i accidently deleted that account i created a new account on that email.
so…
1. i deleted the second account,
2. i got an email saying i can log in to the second account again
but…
it either when i log in
1. says i have deleted this account
2. username or password is incorrect?
yeah sorry if its really confusing. and where am i supposed to log in, just at the yt homepage?
sorry i i meant i got an email saying i could log into the FIRST account again.
I want to ask one thing. I’ve deleted my account because I couldn’t figure out how to rename my channel. How can I get a new account with the name I like with same gmail’s email address.
please help me i got my you tube account deleted and now i can not access in my account , can u please help
my id is manuuvsfifa
@Manu – Manu please follow the steps mentioned in the post and write to YouTube dept and they’ll definitely help you out.
how do you ‘accidentally’ delete your account
nobheads
That’s not at all true that all information related to the account will be deleted. I’ve seen 2 people in the last month close their account, and then a few days later the account is reopened, and it looks exactly as it did before it was closed. Comments, friends, pictures – everything.
You should update your information.
@Blah – May be they have changed the policy now and I haven’t checked it in a while. Thanks for updating.
i forgot my username can someone help me how i can find my username or how i can change my username
@Andreas – Do you remember the mail id your username was linked with ? If it is your present gmail account, then you can go to your Google Accounts and access YouTube from there.
i don’t have a mail with an id
@Andreas – So how did you manage to create an account with you tube then ?
Thankyou so much. Big help =)
@Gautam
i deleded the mail
this is not work
This wouldn’t be happening if youtube was smart enough to send a confirmation e-mail to confirm that you want to infact delete the account. Youtube’s current method is dangerous, a compromised account can easily be deleted at will because no confirmation is required…..youd think youtube would know better, thats just sad.
Will you get your favs back
I have about over 7 accounts using the same email (Don’t Ask)
Will I still be able to restore the account?
I just passed by to say hi
i mistakenly deleted myself from my admin list on ilike.com, now i cant manage my profile anymore, what do i do,please i need helf…wanna edit and upgrade my profile.
by mistaken i delete my account how can i get back it
quise borrar un video que fue subida cancelada en la lista de mis subidas y en lugar de ponerla en borrar video la puse en borrar esa lista y se me fueron todos los que tenia en esa lista you tube deberia de poner esta advertencia usted desea borrar el video en cuestion o usted desea borrar la lista entera ese es un error de you tube en no poner mensajes de advertencias
@Nestor – Translated version from Spanish
“I wanted to remove a video that was uploaded canceled in the list of my up and instead of making it to erase to erase video I put that list and I were all I had in that list you tube to put this warning should you want to delete the video in question or you want to delete the entire list that’s a you tube error in failing to put warning messages”
How Long Is It Until They Send You An Email? Is It Immediatly Or In THe Next Day Or SO ?
I want to reopen my account because the videos I uploaded where saved on a computer of mine that crashed and I wasn’t able to recover the videos from the hard drive. My hopes were that I could reopen it to get my videos back because there were some important ones but I had to delete my account. From my understanding, those videos will no longer be there though as you say….am I reading correctly?
@Mari – The chances that the videos will be still available are very slim. However, if you did not make those videos private, then chances are, you still might find them on YouTube. You can only hope and test your luck. Keep me posted about how it goes and Good luck!
Is it possible to get youtube account back even if you deleted??
@Rina – You can get your account back, but the chances of recovering the content in your account is very doubtful.
Thanks, trying to get my old account.
One question: I “lost” my “friends”, but do I still have the possibility to add them as friend again??? Just asking . . . that was a dumb question, but I don’t remember.
@Crackhead – Yes, you can add them as friends account. It’s just as simple as, you unfriended them for whatever personal reasons, and now you are friend’ing them again
Hey, would you happen to know about how much time you got before your channel is definitely deleted? I mean, I suppose if I asked youtube after 1 month to restore my account, it wouldn’t really happen. I just wonder this, as I in fact would like to restore my account after 3 months. stupidily I miss the videos there and so on…
@Freddy – Normally, when the user is deleted the channel also gets deleted from your account. However, the channel might be available for public use, but not under your name. The only way to figure out is by regaining access to your YouTube account.
Hmm I see that I got it wrongly formulated as I was actually thinking og the account, but I guess it counts for both. How could a channel be available for public use if it’s not owned by anyone btw? Thanks for your reply
Hi so I went to the help center and went to the reopen account stuff and entered my username and email address that I used for the account I deleted and then it says “Thank you for contacting us”. Should I try to log in right after that or should I wait 24-72 hrs as the first answer said?
@Luke – Please wait till they get back to you.
i just want my original youtube username back thats it.
anyone tell me how much time does it take to recover the youtube account??
All I got was it saying it never existed when clearly it did
I just want to ask, I deleted my account yesterday and I want to use that name for another account (my friends have been bothering me for that account since I always into things and such, so I just want to close it for a while).
I close it yesterday and it seems they have quiet down, but I don’t want to reopen that account since they all know the links to my old videos, I want to create another account with the same name, is that possible?
If you open another account with the same name, you’ll not have any links from the previous upload, however, your friends might just get back and send messages again. Think about it.