A new YouTube channel whenever you create your YouTube account needs to be verified by YouTube to use certain features such as custom thumbnails. You can set a custom thumbnail to your YouTube videos only after verifying your YouTube account.
Just follow this post to know how you can verify your Youtube account.
Steps to Verify your YouTube account :
- First of all, go to youtube.com/verify
- After that, YouTube will ask for your phone number, so just enter your country and phone number.
- Then, Click on Get Code, you will get OTP on that number.
- Simply, Enter your OTP on YouTube account verification page and Click on Submit button. That’s it.
That’s how you can easily verify your Youtube account with your phone number.
Note : If you’re a mobile user then you Verify your YouTube account on mobile browser with Desktop mode, just enable desktop mode from the options or settings.