How To Switch Betwixt Youtube Channels Later Linking To A Google+ Page

Note March 2019: amongst latest version the YouTube, hither are instructions for switching betwixt channel identities.

There accept been a pose out of reports inwards the YouTube help forum from users who were shown a prompt yell for them to update their channel who works life that afterwards choosing the selection to proceed their username they tin no longer uncovering their video uploads, playlists or favorites. It unremarkably turns out their erstwhile channel hasn't disappeared, but rather is merely a chip trickier to instruct to: what has happened is that they've linked their YouTube channel to a Google+ Page.

When a YouTube channel is linked to a Google+ Page, the channel is moved to the Google+ Page's special Google account. That agency that the master copy Google trace of piece of employment concern human relationship you lot used to sign into your YouTube channel tin move used to practice a novel YouTube channel linked to your Google+ Profile. 

You tin thus switch betwixt the YouTube channel linked to your Google+ Page as well as the YouTube channel linked to your Google+ Profile. 

There are several ways to switch betwixt your YouTube channels:

1. Select the YouTube channel you lot would similar to purpose from the prompt you lot meet when you lot sign into your YouTube account

2. After signing into YouTube, instruct to the YouTube channel switcher page (www.youtube.com/channel_switcher) to select the channel you lot desire to use

3. Click your avatar inwards the upper right-hand corner of whatever page on YouTube as well as select the "Switch accounts" selection from the menu.

I'll instruct through each of those options inwards to a greater extent than exceptional below.

How practice you lot switch betwixt all the dissimilar YouTube channels that you lot manage? And how practice you lot uncovering your master copy YouTube channel afterwards linking it to a Google+ Page?

When you lot sign in to your YouTube trace of piece of employment concern human relationship afterwards linking your YouTube channel to a Google+ Page, you lot should see a prompt that asks you lot to select between the dissimilar channels managed past times your Google account. 

Here's an instance of how that looks: 

One selection volition move the YouTube channel linked to your Google+ Profile (or your channel that is non linked to Google+, if you lot accept one). That volition present your Google+ Profile avatar or a bluish caput as well as your e-mail address below your channel name. 

The other options to select from are the YouTube channels linked to a Google+ Page that you lot manage. Those volition either present a generic Google+ Page icon (a foursquare of squares) or your Google+ Page's avatar. 

Select the channel you lot desire to purpose from the list. If you lot chose to practice a Google+ Page from your YouTube channel's username, you lot should meet your channel username inwards the listing of options, as well as all your videos, playlists, spotter history, as well as likes should even thus move there.

Note that if you lot don't desire the "Use YouTube as..." channel selector prompt to present every fourth dimension you lot sign in, you lot tin plough that selection off inwards your YouTube account's advanced settings (www.youtube.com/account_advanced):

Turning off the channel selector agency you lot volition move signed into your Google+ Profile-linked YouTube channel past times default.

How practice you lot switch betwixt YouTube channels afterwards you lot are signed into YouTube?

Once you lot are signed into YouTube, you lot may desire to switch betwixt your dissimilar YouTube channels.  In fact, if you lot are signed into YouTube but don't meet your channel's contents, the commencement matter you lot desire to seek is switching to a dissimilar channel your trace of piece of employment concern human relationship manages.

There are 2 dissimilar ways to switch betwixt channels afterwards signing into your account:

•  Open the YouTube channel switcher (www.youtube.com/channel_switcher) as well as select the channel you lot desire to use.

The channel switcher volition present your Google+ Profile as well as all the dissimilar Google+ Pages your YouTube channel manages - fifty-fifty those Pages that don't accept a YouTube channel linked to them.

Choose the Google+ Page or Profile you lot desire to switch to, as well as behave inwards heed that if you lot select a Google+ Page that doesn't accept a YouTube channel linked to it, selecting it from the channel switcher volition practice a novel YouTube channel for that Page.

However, you lot are watching a video or within your trace of piece of employment concern human relationship settings, you lot may non desire to instruct out that page merely to switch to a dissimilar YouTube channel that you lot manage. 

If that's the case, in that place is an alternative:

• Switch betwixt your channels inwards the top card afterwards clicking your avatar

Note: this card changed every bit of June 2014

To switch betwixt channels without leaving the YouTube page you lot are on:

• Click your avatar or channel icon inwards the upper correct corner

• From the card that appears, select the channel identity you lot would similar to use

Note over again that all the Google+ Pages your YouTube trace of piece of employment concern human relationship manages volition move inwards that list. If you lot select a Google+ Page that is non yet linked to a YouTube channel, you lot volition move prompted to practice one.

The bottom line: if you've late "updated" your YouTube channel as well as your channel contents accept seemingly disappeared, cheque to meet if you lot tin switch to your erstwhile channel. Your contents should all move there.

It's also much problem to proceed switching!

If you lot are finding it annoying to accept to proceed switching betwixt your personal Google+ Profile  identity as well as your Google+ Page identity, you lot tin set a default channel for your YouTube account.

How to laid upwards a default channel identity for your YouTube account 

You tin also set a password for your Google+ Page as well as sign inwards to it directly.

How to laid upwards a password for your Google+ Page as well as connected YouTube channel.

More data virtually managing Google+ Pages:

YouTube Help Center: Manage channels linked to Google+ Pages

(Updated links as well as images on 3/18/14 as well as 6/24/14 )
(Last update: March 2019)