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”