If you are not able to add the link to YouTube videos or the link is not working, then one reason could be that you may have encountered an error in YouTube Studio. If you add a link in the description of your YouTube video through YT Studio, then at the same time an error "Verification required to make external links clickable" appears. Which means that to make the links clickable, you will have to verify yourself on YouTube. If you are seeing this error now, it does not mean that YouTube has just started sending this error to all the creators. Because earlier, YouTubers used to get this error.
If you have added a link in the description of your YouTube video but that link is not being clicked after publishing, then you will have to verify your YouTube account. Pay attention, because if you have encountered this error in YouTube Studio, it will not be fixed by YouTube Studio. For this, you will have to go to the desktop mode of your channel. If you want to remove the "Verification required to make external links clickable" error, then you will have to follow some terms and conditions.
Terms & Conditions (To Follow)
You must have access to your channel's main Google account. And the contact email should be added to your Google account. Make sure that the email is confirmed in Google account. And that contact email ID should be logged in on any device you have because the entire verification process will be done through the same email.
How to fix this error? Quick guide
To fix this error, you can use any browser on your mobile device or your computer. But the email ID of your channel should be logged in on that device; it should be the main email ID with which you have created the YouTube channel. And the process mentioned here is the same for both desktop and mobile users; you can use any available device if you want. To make your links clickable and fix this error, you can follow the following steps:.
- Step 1: Search for YouTube on Chrome and go to YouTube's website.
- Step 2: Click on your channel icon. After that, click on YouTube Studio.
- Step 3: A settings icon will appear at the bottom of the channel dashboard. You have to click on it.
- Step 4: After this, click on the channel in the settings.
- Step 5: Then click on the feature eligibility option.
- Step 6: After clicking, click on the advanced features option.
- Step 7: In the advance feature option, click on the access features button.
- Step 8: You will get to see three options to complete the verification; you can choose any, but the best option will be the option of a valid ID.
Step 9: After clicking on the second option, click on the next button: After this click on Get Email.
A verification link will then be sent to your email address. Go to your email and open the received email, then click on Start Verification. After starting the verification, you will be redirected to your browser, but you may see a QR code error. Which did not move, even after repeated attempts. So to fix this QR code error, first make sure that your browser is not in desktop mode. If it is in desktop mode, then first set it in mobile site view mode. This time, this error will be removed.
- Step 11: Click on the next button.
- Step 12: After this, you can take any of your documents like PAN cards, passports, or voter ID cards to complete the verification process.
- Step 13: After that your browser will open your camera to capture the document. Note that the image should not be blurry while submitting.
- Step 14: Click on the camera icon and submit. It takes 1 day or less to complete the verification process.
If you are still unable to fix the error or are having trouble understanding the steps shown in the article, So to solve that, we have given below a quick guide video to fix the "Verification required to make external links clickable" error. You can also fix the error by watching the video.
Guide video to fix this issue:
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