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

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

There accept been a break of reports inwards the YouTube aid forum from users who were shown a prompt bespeak them to update their channel who flora that afterwards choosing the choice to operate out on their username they tin no longer discovery their video uploads, playlists or favorites. It unremarkably turns out their one-time channel hasn't disappeared, but rather is only a fleck trickier to larn 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 way that the master Google concern human relationship you lot used to sign into your YouTube channel tin hold upwardly used to practise a novel YouTube channel linked to your Google+ Profile. 

You tin hence switch betwixt the YouTube channel linked to your Google+ Page in addition to 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 role from the prompt you lot encounter when you lot sign into your YouTube account

2. After signing into YouTube, become 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 in addition to pick out the "Switch accounts" choice from the menu.

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

How practise you lot switch betwixt all the unlike YouTube channels that you lot manage? And how practise you lot discovery your master YouTube channel afterwards linking it to a Google+ Page?

When you lot sign in to your YouTube concern human relationship afterwards linking your YouTube channel to a Google+ Page, you lot should see a prompt that asks you lot to pick out between the unlike channels managed past times your Google account. 

Here's an instance of how that looks: 

One choice volition hold upwardly 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 blueish caput in addition to your electronic 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 role from the list. If you lot chose to practise a Google+ Page from your YouTube channel's username, you lot should encounter your channel username inwards the listing of options, in addition to all your videos, playlists, lookout history, in addition to likes should withal hold upwardly 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 plow that choice off inwards your YouTube account's advanced settings (www.youtube.com/account_advanced):

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

How practise 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 unlike YouTube channels.  In fact, if you lot are signed into YouTube but don't encounter your channel's contents, the showtime affair you lot desire to endeavor is switching to a unlike channel your concern human relationship manages.

There are ii unlike ways to switch betwixt channels afterwards signing into your account:

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

The channel switcher volition present your Google+ Profile in addition to all the unlike 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, in addition to acquit inwards hear that if you lot pick out a Google+ Page that doesn't accept a YouTube channel linked to it, selecting it from the channel switcher volition practise a novel YouTube channel for that Page.

However, you lot are watching a video or within your concern human relationship settings, you lot may non desire to leave of absence that page only to switch to a unlike YouTube channel that you lot manage. 

If that's the case, at that spot 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 in i lawsuit to a greater extent than that all the Google+ Pages your YouTube concern human relationship manages volition hold upwardly inwards that list. If you lot select a Google+ Page that is non yet linked to a YouTube channel, you lot volition hold upwardly prompted to practise one.

The bottom line: if you've of late "updated" your YouTube channel in addition to your channel contents accept seemingly disappeared, depository fiscal establishment jibe to encounter if you lot tin switch to your one-time channel. Your contents should all hold upwardly there.

It's also much problem to operate out on switching!

If you lot are finding it annoying to accept to operate out on switching betwixt your personal Google+ Profile  identity in addition to your Google+ Page identity, you lot tin set a default channel for your YouTube account.

How to ready a default channel identity for your YouTube account 

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

How to ready a password for your Google+ Page in addition to connected YouTube channel.

More data nearly managing Google+ Pages:

YouTube Help Center: Manage channels linked to Google+ Pages

(Updated links in addition to images on 3/18/14 in addition to 6/24/14 )
(Last update: March 2019)