A Dragon in Sheep’s Clothing

For weeks, I have been unable to log into my YouTube account using the app on my iPhone 3GS.

None of the other suggestions online worked for me, but I did find a solution on my own today. I’m posting it here in the hopes that it will help someone else.

I logged into an old Google account using my PC while I was investigating this issue, and I discovered by accident that I could log in to YouTube with the alternate email address I had listed on that account.

But I didn’t have an alternate email address on my current Google account, so I took the following steps:

1. Logged into my current Google account and went to My Account (https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount?hl=en).
2. Under Email Addresses, clicked Edit.
3. Added an alternate email address (a Hotmail address).
4. Google sent a verification email, so I went to Hotmail, opened it, and clicked the link to verify.

Then I immediately went to the YouTube app on my iPhone and was able to login using the alternate email address I had just verified and my Google/Gmail password.

Let me know if this works for you. If it does, feel free to post this solution to any forums where you tried to get a solution and none worked. Spread the joy!