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I had the right password and recovery email but I wanted to txt a code to a phone number I didn’t have any more.
That seems insane to me. Right password, access to “recovery email” and still blocked.
What ended up working for me was trying to login when I took a vacation back to the same city when I last logged in.
Didn’t get asked for the OTP code, so could get in and update the number.
I wouldn’t have such an issue if Google had customer support and let you send other proof of identity. But they don’t.
And now I’m getting weird requests to confirm I logged in from the YouTube app on other devices. YouTube?
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I had the right password and recovery email but I wanted to txt a code to a phone number I didn’t have any more.
That seems insane to me. Right password, access to “recovery email” and still blocked.
What ended up working for me was trying to login when I took a vacation back to the same city when I last logged in.
Didn’t get asked for the OTP code, so could get in and update the number.
I wouldn’t have such an issue if Google had customer support and let you send other proof of identity. But they don’t.
And now I’m getting weird requests to confirm I logged in from the YouTube app on other devices. YouTube?