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)

Sharing Your Youtube Videos From A Google+ Page: Videos Missing? Modify Your Default Channel.

Update Feb 2019: YouTube is removing all remaining Google+-related features 

Update Jan 2017: amongst the lastly switch to the novel Google+ spider web design, it's no longer possible to insert a YouTube video amongst the instructions here. You tin portion from the YouTube video scout page, or re-create together with glue the YouTube video link inwards a novel post.
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It's tardily to portion a video from your YouTube channel on Google+. Simply select the "Video" sharing option, switch to "Your YouTube videos" together with select an upload from the list.

Sounds straightforward, right? Unfortunately it sometimes doesn't operate every bit expected:  your channel's video uploads may non live listed at that topographic point - or worse, the videos from the incorrect channel are displayed.  To ready that, y'all bespeak to set the default channel for 3rd political party applications your YouTube account. Read on for to a greater extent than detailed instructions.

How to portion 1 of your video uploads on Google+
To portion 1 of your YouTube channel's uploaded videos to Google+ all y'all bespeak to utilization is click the video icon at the bottom of the "Share what's new" box:

Then become to the "Your YouTube videos" tab:

You should come across all of your channel's videos listed there.  Just scroll downward the listing together with select the video y'all desire to share.

But sometimes at that topographic point is a problem.  "Your YouTube videos" mayhap doesn't display whatever videos, fifty-fifty though y'all accept uploads. Or maybe it lists videos from the incorrect YouTube channel.

So why are your videos missing? And what's the fix? Setting the default channel inwards your YouTube account.

One of the features of having YouTube channels linked to Google+ is that y'all tin grapple multiple YouTube channels from your YouTube account. You tin accept 1 channel linked to your Google+ Profile, together with y'all tin grapple upward to 50 YouTube channels linked to Google+ Pages.

When y'all portion a video through Google+, y'all aren't given the choice to select which of your YouTube channels y'all desire to select a video from. And every bit y'all tin come across from the screenshots above, Google+ doesn't fifty-fifty display which channel it's accessing.

So how utilization y'all alter the default channel? You tin utilization that in your YouTube account's advanced settings.

1. Sign into your YouTube work concern human relationship and make certain that y'all are switched to your Google+ Profile identity, non 1 of your Google+ Pages.

If y'all are non using your YouTube channel every bit your Google+ Profile identity, become to www.youtube.com/channel_switcher and select your profile.

2. Go to your YouTube channel's advanced settings (www.youtube.com/account_advanced)

3.  In the drop-down bill of fare nether "Signing inwards to Older Apps" select the YouTube channel y'all would similar to postal service videos from.

"Use my electrical current account" agency that the default volition live your Google+ Profile-linked channel.

Be certain to click "Save" when y'all are done!

4. Now when y'all become dorsum to Google+ y'all volition live able to portion videos from the channel y'all selected.

Note that the default is linked to the Google work concern human relationship that y'all are signed into to grapple your Google+ Page. Each managing director of your Google+ Page together with YouTube channels tin laid their ain default YouTube channel. 

Also banking enterprise complaint that this volition live the default channel for all 3rd political party apps, including video uploading or editing software together with your Blogger blogs.

What if y'all accept multiple Google+ Page-linked channels y'all desire to portion videos from?

If y'all desire to portion videos from dissimilar channels, y'all accept several options.

1. Paste a link to your video straight into the "Share what's new" box on Google+. This is the easiest way to share!

2. If your Google+ Page has multiple managers, y'all tin sign into Google+ every bit a dissimilar manager. Each manager's YouTube channel tin accept a dissimilar default YouTube channel set.

3. In the Google+ video sharing window y'all tin travel inwards a video URL:

4. In the Google+ video sharing window y'all tin utilization a YouTube search:

5. You tin share your video from YouTube directly:

6. Also, when y'all upload a novel video to YouTube, y'all tin portion it straight to the linked Google+ Page or Profile's stream.

Additional information:

Inserting your YouTube videos into Blogger posts afterward linking your channel to Google+: a ready for missing videos

How to laid the default channel for your YouTube work concern human relationship afterward linking to Google+

YouTube Help: Share videos

(updated 6/24/14)
(Last updated: March 2019)

Add Or Alter A Google+ Custom Url

Note: equally utilization of the shutdown of consumer Google+ on Apr 2, 2019 Google+ custom vanity URLs volition no longer live on supported. Any links that utilization Google+ vanity URLs, including Album Archive, volition no longer work. 

When yous laid upwards a Google+ Profile or Page, the link to the profile uses an impossible to retrieve 21-digit user ID.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Custom URL lets yous utilization a link that's slowly to retrieve when yous are promoting your Google+ activity.

If your Google+ Profile or Page is eligible for a Custom URL, yous volition reckon a banner on your Profile or Page's profile.  You volition as well as thence cause got the choice to claim the offered Custom URL.

The offered Custom URL is unremarkably based on the cite of the Google+ Profile or Page. You volition non cause got the choice to asking a specific Custom URL.

Also complaint that Google+ as well as YouTube at nowadays cause got split Custom URL systems. Adding a Google+ Custom URL does non do a YouTube channel Custom URL, which has different eligibility requirements.



Read on for detailed instructions:

• Eligibility requirements for a Google+ Custom URL
• How to claim a Custom URL on Google+
• What if my Google+ Profile or Page isn't offered the Custom URL I want?
• How to alter your Google+ Custom URL

Eligibility requirements for a Google+ Custom URL

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Google+ Profile or Google+ Page must meet the same requirements to live on offered a custom URL.

• Ten or to a greater extent than followers 
• Account is at to the lowest degree xxx days old
• A profile photo
• Account is inwards practiced standing

It does non involve to cause got a comprehend image, a minimum number of posts. or live on associated amongst a website (which previously was a requirement for Google+ Pages).

How to claim a Custom URL on Google+

Check to reckon if your Google+ Profile or Page is eligible for a Custom URL:

1. Sign inwards to Google+ on a computer as well as if yous cause got a Google+ Page, switch to acting equally manager

2. Click Profile on the left menu

3. If your Google+ Profile or Page is eligible for a Custom URL, in that place volition live on a greyish banner nether the comprehend icon that says:
We've preapproved or thence custom URLs for your page/profile, including plus.google.com/+[example]

Note that in that place may live on to a greater extent than than 1 custom URL choice offered, but yous volition non live on able to propose a specific Custom URL that yous want.

Claim a Custom URL

To claim the offered Custom URL

1. click the CLAIM URL button to opened upwards a novel page amongst your Custom URL options

2. if yous are offered to a greater extent than than 1 option, conduct the Custom URL yous want

If yous add together a suffix to the offered Custom URL, the concluding URL volition display at the locomote yesteryear of the page, adjacent to the Google+ icon:

3. Read the Google+ Custom URL Terms of Use

When yous claim as well as utilization a custom URL, yous must follow the Google Terms of Service, the Google+ User Content as well as Conduct Policy, as well as the Google+ Pages Additional Terms of Service (if applicable), as well as encounter the additional Google+ Custom URL terms. Take fourth dimension to read those.

4. Agree to the Terms of Service

5. Click Save URL 

6. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 alert volition popular upwards - read it as well as Confirm URL

Note that fifty-fifty though it states the Custom URL cannot live on changed, it tin dismiss unremarkably live on changed (with or thence limitations).

And that's it!  Your Google+ profile as well as links to your posts volition automatically display the novel Custom URL.  Any quondam links using the 21-digit user ID should maintain to work.

What if my Google+ Profile or Page isn't offered the Custom URL I want?

Sometimes the offered Custom URL volition non live on the 1 yous wish to use. For instance inwards or thence cases yous may live on required to add together a suffix to claim the Custom URL.

If that's the case, in that place isn't much yous tin dismiss do nearly it.

Keep inwards take heed that the offered Custom URLs are unremarkably based on the Profile or Page name, thence if your desired Custom URL is dissimilar from the name, yous may non larn that offer.

Before yous brand whatsoever cite changes, complaint that your cite volition display across Google products as well as services, including Gmail, YouTube as well as Google Drive. And equally cite changes are limited, yous may involve to await xc days earlier changing it again.

You tin dismiss shipping feedback to Google+ using the Report an issue link on the left menu, but that does non guarantee that yous volition have a novel Custom URL offer.

In many cases, a novel custom URL may live on offered if yous simply wait, although that could cause got weeks (or non occur at all).

How to alter your Google+ Custom URL

You tin dismiss alter your Google+ Custom URL up to iii times per year. 

Before yous alter your Custom URL, maintain inwards mind:

• removing the quondam Custom URL does non brand that URL available to other Google+ Profiles or Pages
• any links to your profile or 1 of your posts  using the quondam Custom URL volition live on broken

Note that if yous created your Google+ Page amongst a Google My Business listing, yous volition non cause got this option. You tin dismiss try contacting Google My Business support for assistance.


Remove the electrical flow Google+ Custom URL

1. Sign inwards to Google+ on a figurer as well as if yous cause got a Google+ Page, switch to acting equally manager

2. Click Profile on the left menu

3. On the comprehend icon click ABOUT which opens the "About Me" page for the Profile's Google trouble concern human relationship or Page's Brand Account

4. Under Sites you should reckon your electrical flow Google+ Custom URL

   

If yous cause got a YouTube channel Custom URL it volition live on listed in that place equally well. Note that YouTube has   different Custom URL eligibility requirements. Changing your Google+ Custom URL volition non alter your YouTube channel's Custom URL.

5. On the Sites card click the edit pencil icon at locomote yesteryear right

6. The Sites card editor volition open. Click the X  to the correct of the custom URL to take it.

7. Read the alert information, as well as click CONTINUE

8.  Click OK at the bottom of the card to relieve the changes.

Once yous cause got done that, whatsoever link using the quondam Custom URL volition at nowadays halt working.

Add a novel Custom URL

If your Google+ Profile or Page is as well as thence eligible for a novel Custom URL, yous volition 1 time again reckon a banner on the profile notifying yous that in that place is a Custom URL to claim.

For example, I changed the cite of my Google+ Page from "Fun as well as Games"  amongst the URL +FunandGames to "Fun Games".

After removing the Custom URL, I reckon a novel Custom URL offering on the Google+ Page's profile.

And when I click CLAIM URL I reckon the novel options, including a Custom URL associated amongst the novel cite (+FunGames)  as well as the quondam Custom URL I tin dismiss re-claim (+FunandGames).

But complaint that in that place is no guarantee yous volition live on re-offered the quondam Custom URL or offered a dissimilar Custom URL.

Learn to a greater extent than inwards the Google+ Help Center: Get a Custom URL for your Google+ Profile

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)

Sharing Your Youtube Videos From A Google+ Page: Videos Missing? Modify Your Default Channel.

Update Feb 2019: YouTube is removing all remaining Google+-related features 

Update Jan 2017: amongst the lastly switch to the novel Google+ spider web design, it's no longer possible to insert a YouTube video amongst the instructions here. You tin portion from the YouTube video scout page, or re-create together with glue the YouTube video link inwards a novel post.
---

It's tardily to portion a video from your YouTube channel on Google+. Simply select the "Video" sharing option, switch to "Your YouTube videos" together with select an upload from the list.

Sounds straightforward, right? Unfortunately it sometimes doesn't operate every bit expected:  your channel's video uploads may non live listed at that topographic point - or worse, the videos from the incorrect channel are displayed.  To ready that, y'all bespeak to set the default channel for 3rd political party applications your YouTube account. Read on for to a greater extent than detailed instructions.

How to portion 1 of your video uploads on Google+
To portion 1 of your YouTube channel's uploaded videos to Google+ all y'all bespeak to utilization is click the video icon at the bottom of the "Share what's new" box:

Then become to the "Your YouTube videos" tab:

You should come across all of your channel's videos listed there.  Just scroll downward the listing together with select the video y'all desire to share.

But sometimes at that topographic point is a problem.  "Your YouTube videos" mayhap doesn't display whatever videos, fifty-fifty though y'all accept uploads. Or maybe it lists videos from the incorrect YouTube channel.

So why are your videos missing? And what's the fix? Setting the default channel inwards your YouTube account.

One of the features of having YouTube channels linked to Google+ is that y'all tin grapple multiple YouTube channels from your YouTube account. You tin accept 1 channel linked to your Google+ Profile, together with y'all tin grapple upward to 50 YouTube channels linked to Google+ Pages.

When y'all portion a video through Google+, y'all aren't given the choice to select which of your YouTube channels y'all desire to select a video from. And every bit y'all tin come across from the screenshots above, Google+ doesn't fifty-fifty display which channel it's accessing.

So how utilization y'all alter the default channel? You tin utilization that in your YouTube account's advanced settings.

1. Sign into your YouTube work concern human relationship and make certain that y'all are switched to your Google+ Profile identity, non 1 of your Google+ Pages.

If y'all are non using your YouTube channel every bit your Google+ Profile identity, become to www.youtube.com/channel_switcher and select your profile.

2. Go to your YouTube channel's advanced settings (www.youtube.com/account_advanced)

3.  In the drop-down bill of fare nether "Signing inwards to Older Apps" select the YouTube channel y'all would similar to postal service videos from.

"Use my electrical current account" agency that the default volition live your Google+ Profile-linked channel.

Be certain to click "Save" when y'all are done!

4. Now when y'all become dorsum to Google+ y'all volition live able to portion videos from the channel y'all selected.

Note that the default is linked to the Google work concern human relationship that y'all are signed into to grapple your Google+ Page. Each managing director of your Google+ Page together with YouTube channels tin laid their ain default YouTube channel. 

Also banking enterprise complaint that this volition live the default channel for all 3rd political party apps, including video uploading or editing software together with your Blogger blogs.

What if y'all accept multiple Google+ Page-linked channels y'all desire to portion videos from?

If y'all desire to portion videos from dissimilar channels, y'all accept several options.

1. Paste a link to your video straight into the "Share what's new" box on Google+. This is the easiest way to share!

2. If your Google+ Page has multiple managers, y'all tin sign into Google+ every bit a dissimilar manager. Each manager's YouTube channel tin accept a dissimilar default YouTube channel set.

3. In the Google+ video sharing window y'all tin travel inwards a video URL:

4. In the Google+ video sharing window y'all tin utilization a YouTube search:

5. You tin share your video from YouTube directly:

6. Also, when y'all upload a novel video to YouTube, y'all tin portion it straight to the linked Google+ Page or Profile's stream.

Additional information:

Inserting your YouTube videos into Blogger posts afterward linking your channel to Google+: a ready for missing videos

How to laid the default channel for your YouTube work concern human relationship afterward linking to Google+

YouTube Help: Share videos

(updated 6/24/14)
(Last updated: March 2019)

Week Inwards Review - November 21, 2015: Novel Google+, Google Photos In Addition To More

This calendar week the new Google+ launched, amongst a snappier interface, redesigned profiles in addition to simplified features. The novel Google+ is “focused or in addition to thence interests” amongst an emphasis on Collections in addition to Communities. It’s withal a move inward progress, in addition to yous tin opt inward (and dorsum out) on the spider web past times only clicking a link.

Where is everything?

• Hangouts tin endure accessed at hangouts.google.com , inward Gmail, in addition to using the Chrome Hangouts app or extension.
• Events are available inward the Android Google+ app in addition to the Classic G+ interface
• Hangouts on Air tin endure scheduled starting from hangouts.google.com or YouTube Live Events, or past times switching dorsum to Classic G+
• Links to Google+ Photos “highlights” in addition to albums redirect to Google Photos, pregnant yous tin exclusively access your Blogger in addition to Hangouts icon albums inward Picasa Web Albums.

There are to a greater extent than details below.

If yous endeavor the novel Google+, be certain to shipping feedback to Google+ straight to allow them know what yous like, dislike in addition to which features are essential to you.

• How to shipping effective feedback to Google 

What else was novel this week? Google Photos straightaway lets yous convert your "Original" images to "High Quality" images that don't count towards your storage limits. You tin also easily withdraw already-backed-up photos from your phone. Folks without a Google trouble organization human relationship tin bring together a Hangouts video call. YouTube introduced novel translation tools. Plus to a greater extent than updates, tips in addition to articles. 

Note some of the links are listed nether to a greater extent than than i category below.

Mark your Calendar

• Feature Fri contest: This week's #FeatureFriday contest is looking for Google+ Collections almost Google products in addition to services - I know a lot of yous out in that place cause got Google-related Collections so submit yours! (Google+ Creators Community)
• Event: Interested inward the Google Top Contributor Program? Mark your calendar for Dec tertiary (Google Top Contributor Program)
• Contest: Are yous a teen artist? Or produce yous know whatsoever artistic students inward grades K through 12? Check out the Doodle iv Google contest (Deadline Dec 7)(Google)
• Course:  Register for the “How to showtime making coin on YouTube* Creator Academy Bootcamp (December 7-21) (YouTube Creators)

Google+

• Introducing the novel Google+ (Official Google Blog)
• Dive into the novel Google+ (Official post on Google+ past times Luke Wroblewski)
• What’s changing amongst Google+ (Google+ Help Center)
• The novel Google+ goes completely responsive, making pages charge faster on all devices (Google Developers)
• Tips: Google+ TC Alex Garcia’s How to Google+ Collection has dandy tips for using the novel Google+ (Alex Garcia)
• Some interesting articles:
• TechCrunch: this post)
• Improvements to Sign-In amongst Google Play services 8.3: Sign inward amongst Google+ becomes Sign inward amongst Google (no Profile required)  (Android Developers blog)
• Where's my (Google+) stuff?
• How to post inward the novel Google+ (Alex Garcia)
• Get your Circle streams dorsum (Dustin Stout)
• New Google+ keyboard shortcuts (Artem Russakovskii)
• Find your Hangouts afterwards switching to the novel Google+ 
• How to schedule a Hangout on Air afterwards switching to the novel Google+: opened upwardly hangouts.google.com in addition to pick out "Hangouts on Air" inward the left menu
• Small businesses: laissez passer your customers the take link to your Google Business page reviews (Online Ownership)  Also: Automated review link creation tool (Pleper)
• How to find your Blogger weblog images now that Google+ Photos is no longer accessible (updated G+ Post)

Google Photos

• Update New Google Photos features on Android (John Elstone)
• New! Google Photos helps yous costless upwardly infinite on your telephone - straightaway yous tin easily delete device copies of your already-backed-up photos or instruct a alert when your storage is almost total (Google Photos)
• New! Google Photos helps yous clear upwardly infinite inward your Google account: convert your photos from Original to High Quality (Google Photos)
• New! Get your photos on the map! Now yous tin part photos straight from Google Photos to Google Maps (Google Local Guides)

Google Small Business in addition to Local

• New! Review local businesses, upload photos, right Google Maps - Google Local Guides tin flat upwardly to instruct to a greater extent than storage! (Google Local Guides)
• New! Get your photos on the map! Now yous tin part photos straight from Google Photos to Google Maps (Google Local Guides)
• Tip: How to restore a deleted Google+ Page (and its YouTube channel) at Google My Business (G+ part of this post)

YouTube

• New! YouTube Creators: enable the novel Sponsored Cards format on your videos
• Update YouTube listens: Subscription grid thought is back! (YouTube)
• New! YouTube's novel translation tools assist yous connect amongst a global audience (YouTube Creators)
• Update YouTube Kids app straightaway available inward the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand in addition to Canada (YouTube)
• New! YouTube fights for fair use (Google Public Policy blog)
• Course: Register for the “How to showtime making coin on YouTube Creator Academy Bootcamp (December 7-21) (YouTube Creators)

Hangouts on Air in addition to Live Broadcasting

• New Google+: Hangouts on Air tin endure scheduled starting from hangouts.google.com or YouTube Live Events, or past times switching dorsum to Classic G+
• Tip Promote your Hangout on Air or YouTube Live lawsuit across all your videos in addition to on your channel (Video Creators)

Hangouts

• New! Have guests bring together a Hangouts video telephone band using a URL link, no Google trouble organization human relationship required (Google for Work)
• New Google+: Hangouts tin endure accessed at hangouts.google.com , inward Gmail, in addition to using the Chrome Hangouts app or extension.
• Tip Find your Hangouts icon albums inward Picasa Web Albums

Blogger in addition to Webmasters

• Update Updating the Google Search Quality Rating Guidelines (Webmaster Central Blog)
• Tip The fourth dimension is straightaway for multi-screen (AdSense blog)
• Tip Human-centered design: When writing for humans, it helps to recall similar one (AdSense blog)
• Tip 5 tips to grow website visitors (AdSense blog)
• Article Google Webmasters spotlight series: Get to know the Google Webmasters squad members (Google Webmasters)
• Tip How to find your Blogger weblog images now that Google+ Photos is no longer accessible (updated G+ Post)

AdSense in addition to Advertising

• Article YouTube Red in addition to other subscription services that withdraw ads are "a truce betwixt creator in addition to consumer" (Eric Ravenscraft at Lifehacker)
• Article Wladimir Palant, Adblock Plus, in addition to the (profitable) nation of war against unacceptable ads. (Russ Juskalian at Technology Review)
• New! Drive sales in addition to app downloads amongst video this vacation season (AdWords blog) 
• New! YouTube Creators: enable the novel Sponsored Cards format on your videos 

Nexus, Android, Project Fi

• Update Android vi Marshmallow rolling out to devices on Project Fi , addition Band 12 News
• Update Nexus 6P is dorsum inward stock, exactly inward fourth dimension for vacation shopping :) (Nexus)
• Tip Sticky FAQ almost Bad USB Type-C Legacy cables (Benson Leung)
• Tip Don’t purchase the OnePlus USB Type C adaptor for your Nexus 6P/5X or Pixel (Benson Leung)

More Mobile

• New! Improvements to Sign-In amongst Google Play services 8.3: Sign inward amongst Google+ becomes Sign inward amongst Google (no Profile required)  (Android Developers blog)
• New! Redisigned Google app for iOS devices (Google)
• Update Google Fit: Step Up Your Fitness (Official Android blog)

Updated March 2019 to withdraw Google+ links

Use Google+ Without A Profile: Grapple Google+ Pages, Youtube Channels In Addition To More

Mostly no work anyway- read on for details

Google volition move shutting downwards Google+ for consumer accounts on Apr 2, 2019. 

All personal Google+ Profiles in addition to Google+ Pages volition move deleted, along amongst Google+ posts, photos in addition to videos uploaded to Google+. Any photos inward Google Photos volition rest there. This volition NOT close downwards your other Google products similar Gmail, Google Drive or YouTube. Google+ features on Blogger  and YouTube volition be will move removed inward Feb 2019. Back upwardly your Google+ photos and Google+ Page information before Apr 2nd!

Here is the bottom line, every bit of Nov 2018:
Your Google+ Profile is required for:

• Google+ posting in addition to commenting
• Posting comments on Blogger (or other sites) amongst Google+ comments enabled
• If you lot usage Google+ comments on your Blogger blog, managing those comments
•  Using apps inward the former Hangouts video calls interface in addition to inward Hangouts on Air (note: most of these apps were retired Apr 25, 2017)
• Managing who tin contact you lot via Hangouts amongst Google+ Circles

If you lot delete your Google+ Profile:

• All Google+ posts, comments in addition to +1s volition move permanently deleted
• All Google+-based comments on Blogger blogs volition move deleted
• YouTube comments should move retained (but if you lot shared them to Google+, those shares volition move deleted)

Here are the electrical current reasons to receive got a Google+ Profile (as of Nov 2018):

• You usage Google+ every bit a social platform amongst your personal identity
• You desire to move out comments on Blogger blogs (or other websites) using the Google+ comment system
• You participate inward Hangouts on Air or Hangouts video calls, in addition to desire to access apps such every bit Hangouts Toolbar
• You usage Google+ Circles for to a greater extent than fine-tuned permissions for who tin contact you lot via Hangouts 

Here are the reasons to receive got a Google+ Page:

• You usage Google+ every bit a social platform amongst the identity of a brand, describe concern or arrangement (anything other than an private identity)

All you lot demand is a Google Account to create produce your describe concern or brand's Google+ or YouTube

• Create a Google+ Page for your describe concern or brand
• Create a YouTube Channel for your business, brand, or show

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Since publishing this article inward June 2014 the requirement for a Google+ Profile has been gradually removed from a issue of Google products in addition to services. Read on if you lot are interested inward some Google history.

- July 2014: Google Hangouts grouping video calls on desktop no longer require a Google+ Profile for Google Apps customers (this was afterwards followed for consumer customers)
- September 2014: Google Hangouts grouping video calls on Android in addition to iOS no longer require a Google+ Profile.  
- Oct 2014: Google Hangouts extension no longer requires a Google+ Profile. 
- March 2015: Google Hangouts no longer requires a Google+ Profile for sharing photos.
-  May 2015: Google Photos launches, no longer requires a Google+ Profile
-  July 2015: Google announces Google+ volition eventually no longer move required for other Google products, including YouTube. 
- August 2015: Google+ Photos retired 
- Oct 2015: New non-Google+ Google My Business  Pages dashboard introduced for managing Google+ Brand Pages in addition to Locations
- Nov 2015: "New Google+" introduced with simpler interface, minimal profiles in addition to no Hangouts or Events
- Nov 2015: Google "About Me" page (aboutme.google.com) introduced, allowing you lot to create produce your Google identity without a populace profile
- Nov 2015: You tin now create a novel YouTube channel without Google+ in addition to delete your Google+ Profile without affecting your channel
- February 2016: Google Play Games introduces Gamer IDs, used instead of Google+ Profile identity
- April 2016: Leaving a review for a describe concern on Google no longer requires a Google+ Profile
- June 2016: Google+ Page at nowadays a service on a Brand Account
- August 2016: Picasa Web Albums retired, replaced past times Album Archive
- August 2016: Google+ Profile no longer required to move out a Google Play Store review
- August 2016 Google My Business mobile app no longer supports Brand Pages or other Google+ data
- August 2016: Google My Business Insights for Local businesses volition no longer include Google+ data
- September 2016: Hangouts on Air removed from Google+, at nowadays only inward YouTube Live Events
- October 2016: Creating a novel YouTube channel with a "business or other name" creates a Brand Account without a Google+ Page
- Fall 2016: YouTube Private Messages no longer require a Google+ identity
- Dec 2016: YouTube Custom URL scheme at nowadays independent of Google+
- December 2016: Update to the YouTube desktop notification bell, at nowadays dissever from Google+
- January 2017: Google My Business no longer supports Google+ Brand Pages at all, removes Google+ Insights
- Jan 2017: "Classic" Google+ Retired, amongst Events the only vestige of the former interface
- March 2017: Location Sharing removed from Google+ Android app, moved to Google Maps
- Apr 25, 2017: Google+ Hangouts API retired, most apps removed from Hangouts video calls
- after Apr 24 2017: Google+ functionality inward Gmail retired
- June 2017: Any pre-2014 YouTube channel that was never connected to Google+, in addition to that never confirmed its Google scream on YouTube has been migrated to a Brand Account (with no Google+ Page)
- Oct 2017: New Google My Business listings no longer receive got a Brand Account that tin move used for a Google+ Page or YouTube channel.
- March 2018: Google My Business begins toRemoval of Google+ features from Blogger and YouTube
- March 2019: Shutdown of the Google+ API,, removal of the Google notification bell on the 1 Google Bar.
- Apr 2, 2019: Shutdown of consumer Google+: deletion of all Google+ profiles on consumer accounts in addition to all Google+ Pages. 
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It's non widely known, but you lot are non required to receive got a Google+ Profile to create produce a Google+ Page or Page-connected YouTube channel. H5N1 Google Account tin manage upwardly to 100 dissimilar Google+ Pages (each amongst its ain YouTube channel), all without a Profile.

But what nearly other Google products in addition to services? Some, similar Hangouts, require a Google+ Profile to usage all their features. Others, similar Blogger, don't require a Google+ Profile at all.

This article volition comprehend how to create a Google+ Page without a Profile, what happens if you lot delete your existing Profile, in addition to using a Profile-less describe concern human relationship on your mobile device.

Contents:

• No Google+ account? Create a Google+ Page without kickoff creating a Google+ Profile
• What happens when you lot delete your Google+ Profile? Understand the changes in addition to limitations to Photos, YouTube, Hangouts in addition to Blogger before you lot delete!
• How to delete your existing Google+ Profile, without deleting your entire Google account
• Android devices: Using the Google+, Google My Business,  Youtube, in addition to Hangouts Apps without a Google+ Profile
• iOS devices: Google+ Profile currently required (update 6/24/14: use the Google My Business app for iOS, update 9/10/14 use the Hangouts app)
• Change your mind? Adding a Google+ Profile to your account

If you lot conception to delete your Google+ Profile, please start here to acquire what volition tumble out to your account.

All the information inward this post should move accurate every bit of June 16, 2014. I volition update the details every bit I acquire of changes to products in addition to apps. If you lot receive got whatever questions or uncovering wrong information, delight permit me know!

Create a Google+ Business Page or Page-connected YouTube channel without a Google+ Profile

If you lot receive got created a Google account that does not have a Google+ Profile, you tin even thus create a Google+ Page. There are 3 principal ways to create a Google+ Page without a Profile:

Note: every bit of Oct 2016, creating a novel YouTube channel every bit a describe concern or build creates a Brand Account, but non a Google+ Page.

1. Create a novel Page at business.google.com/create/brand
2. Create a novel Google+ Page along amongst a YouTube channel
3. Create a novel Google+ Page for your existing YouTube channel

Note that the instructions below are for a desktop computer. On Android devices Google+ Pages tin also move created using the Google My Business app.

1. Create a novel Google+ Page on Google+

As of Feb 2017, you lot tin create a novel Google+ Page on Google+, fifty-fifty if you lot produce non receive got a Google+ Profile. 

• Create a Google+ Page for your describe concern or brand

If you lot produce non yet receive got a Google+ account, only move to plus.google.com/pages/create to prepare a Google+ Page.
Update Oct 2015: How to create a novel Google+ Page (no Google+ Profile required)

There are 3 types of Pages:

Note: amongst the retirement of "Classic" Google+ inward Jan 2017, in that location is at nowadays only 1 type of Google+ Page. 

• Local Businesses amongst a storefront and street address where you lot serve customers
• Local Service Area Businesses, where you lot don't receive got a storefront, but you lot produce serve customers inward person. Some typical service expanse businesses are plumbers, taxis, caterers or consultants. 
• Brands, which comprehend everything else: bands, shows, products, causes, organizations, entirely online businesses in addition to more

Once you lot receive got created a Google+ Page, signing inward to Google+ should select you lot straight to your Google+ Pages dashboard (plus.google.com/dashboard) novel Google My Business pages dashboard (business.google.com/manage/)

If you lot receive got existing Google+ Pages you lot tin create a novel Page from within Google+. Navigate to your principal Pages dashboard past times clicking the Pages icon inward the left menu, or move straight to plus.google.com/dashboard the Google My Business pages dashboard (business.google.com/manage/)

Click the blueish “Get your Page” push clit to start the Page creation process

.

Click the + push clit at lower right 

Or select + Add a build page or + Add a novel Location inward the left menu

More information: 

• How to create a novel Google+ Brand Page 
• Google My Business Help Center: Get online amongst Google My Business

2. Create a novel YouTube channel that uses a "Business or other name"

Note: every bit of Oct 2016, creating a novel YouTube channel amongst a "Business or other name", creates a novel Brand Account, but non a Google+ Page. You tin add together a Google+ Page to the Brand Account at Google+.

• Create a YouTube Channel for your business, brand, or show

If you lot receive got a build novel YouTube describe concern human relationship without a channel, the YouTube channel creation procedure allows you lot to select the choice to create a channel using a "business or other name" rather than your personal name..

Sign inward to YouTube (www.youtube.com), click the left carte icon in addition to then select “My Channel” from the menu. You volition move prompted to create a novel channel. 

At the bottom of the covert click Use a describe concern or other name

If you lot receive got an existing YouTube account, you lot tin move to "My Channels" (www.youtube.com/channel_switcher) in addition to click + Create a novel channel

You volition in addition to then move prompted to create a Google+ Page for your YouTube channel. 

Note that this procedure creates a Brand Account without a Google+ Page.

Learn to a greater extent than inward the YouTube assist center: Create a novel channel

If you lot would similar to receive got a Google+ Page, you lot receive got ii options:

1. First create your Google+ Page at Google My Business

• first create your Google+ Page + Brand Account at business.google.com/create
• then add together a YouTube channel to your Page past times signing into YouTube in addition to going to "My Channels" (www.youtube.com/channel_switcher).  Click the Brand Account scream to start the channel creation process.

OR 

2. Add a Google+ Page to your YouTube channel's Brand Account

• first create your YouTube channel + Brand Account amongst a "Business or other name" at www.youtube.com/channel_switcher
• then sign inward to Google+ (plus.google.com) in addition to switch to your Brand Account identity past times clicking your profile photograph at top right, in addition to selecting your channel's Brand Account
• after you lot switch, you lot should meet the choice to create a Google+ Page on the left menu.

3. Create a Brand Account for your existing YouTube channel 

Note: every bit of Oct 2016, creating a novel YouTube channel amongst a "Business or other name", creates a new Brand Account, but non a Google+ Page. You tin add together a Google+ Page to the Brand Account at Google+.

If you lot have a YouTube channel that is non yet connected to Google+, you lot can connect it to a Google+ Page from your channel's advanced describe concern human relationship settings (www.youtube.com/account_advanced).

Click the blueish push clit labeled "Connect amongst a Google+ Page" (if you lot don't meet the button, your channel is probable already connected to Google+).

YouTube volition enquire for confirmation that you lot desire to usage "both names" - a dissimilar quest YouTube than you lot produce on the residuum of Google.

Learn to a greater extent than inward the YouTube assist center: Use a dissimilar scream on YouTube than your Google account

You tin add together a Google+ Page to your YouTube channel's Brand Account every bit described above.

What happens when you lot delete your existing Google+ Profile?

Can you lot delete an existing Google+ Profile in addition to even thus usage Google products in addition to services? Yes you lot can! However, you lot may lose some features in addition to functionality.

You tin delete your personal Google+ Profile without affecting the Google+ Pages that you lot ain or manage. You tin maintain using Gmail e-mail every bit you lot usually do. However, if you lot usage Hangouts or Blogger,  read on to determine whether the changes inward those products volition touching you.

5 3 Reasons You Should Not Delete Your Google+ Profile

If whatever of the next apply to you, visit carefully before you lot delete your Google+ Profile:

1.  You receive got posted content on Google+ you lot desire to keep. Deleting your Google+ Profile permanently deletes all posts.
2. You receive got made comments on YouTube videos or Blogger blogs using the Google+ comment system, in addition to desire to move along to comment using your existent name 
3. You usage AutoBackup to upload photos from your mobile device (update 5/28/15)
4. You similar to portion photos inward Hangout chats (update 3/15)
5. You desire to usage the iOS Google+ or Hangouts apps on your iPhone or iPad (update 9/10/14)
6. You desire to review local businesses or apps inward the Google Play shop using your existent name. (update 4/8/16, 8/13/16)
7. You usage the apps inward Hangouts on Air or the former Hangouts Video Call interface

I strongly recommend trying to sympathize all the potential repercussions of deleting your Google+ Profile before you lot produce thus - some changes cannot move undone!

So what happens?


What happens when you lot delete your personal Google+ Profile:

• All of your Google+ Profile's +1s, posts in addition to comments volition move permanently deleted
• Your introduction, bragging rights, looking for, human relationship status, in addition to tagline volition move deleted
• Any details non inward your Google describe concern human relationship About Me page (aboutme.google.com) volition move deleted
• You volition not be able to move out Google+ Local describe concern reviews with your personal identity.  However, you lot tin move out reviews using a Google+ Page identity.
• Your existing Local describe concern reviews volition non move deleted: They volition move marked every bit private in addition to accessible inward the "My Places" department of Google Maps. You volition move able to delete them there. 
• You volition not move able to move out Google Play shop reviews or ratings amongst your personal identity.  However it is possible to sign into Google Play straight amongst a Google+ Page's username in addition to password to charge per unit of measurement apps. (update August 2016)
• Your connections to some third-party services that usage Google+ sign-in volition move disabled. To create produce them move to Connected accounts settings.

GMail in addition to Account Details

Deleting your Google+ Profile should not touching your Gmail account. However, you lot volition non move able to alter some of your Profile details after deletion.
Update Nov 2015: your personal information tin move managed at aboutme.google.com without a Google+ Profile

• You volition not move able to update some of your Google describe concern human relationship information, such every bit your engagement of birth, without a Google+ Profile. Confirm that all the information on your Profile (profiles.google.com/me/about) is right before you lot delete it. 
• If you lot desire to change the scream your Gmail messages are sent from, you lot volition receive got to update your “send post service as” scream inward your Gmail settings.
• Your Google+ Circles volition move deleted, but the members of your Circles volition rest inward your Google Contacts (will move close downwards inward Feb 2019)

Managing Google+ Pages

October 2015: the novel Google My Business dashboard launches for managing Google+ Brand Pages in addition to Google+ Local Pages ("Locations"). Pages tin move works life at business.google.com/manage/ rather than plus.google.com/dashboard
November 2015: it's no longer necessary to receive got a Google+ Profile to receive got an invitation to create produce a Google+ Page.
August 2016 Google My Business app no longer supports Brand Pages or other Google+ data and
Google My Business Insights for local businesses volition no longer include Google+ data
January 2017: Google My Business no longer supports Google+ Brand Pages at all, removes Google+ Insights

Note: every bit of Jan 2017 the only house to create produce Brand Accounts is myaccounts.google.com/brandaccounts

You shouldn't receive got whatever problem managing Google+ Pages without a Google+ Profile on your desktop figurer (business.google.com/manage/)  or using the Google My Business App (iOS or Android) on your mobile device. However, in that location are limitations:

• You cannot receive got an invitation to create produce a Google+ Page without a Google+ Profile. If you lot are invited to create produce a Google+ Page, you lot volition receive got to (temporarily) add together a Google+ Profile to your describe concern human relationship to receive got the invitation. As of Nov 2015 you lot tin receive got the invite to create produce a Page without a Profile.
• You cannot usage the iOS Google+ app without a Google+ Profile (????)
  The costless Google My Business app for iOS devices allows you lot to create produce your Pages on your iPhone or iPad.

Google Photos, Google+ Photos in addition to Picasa Web Albums

Google Photos launched, independent of Google+
August 2, 2016: Picasa Web Albums retired, Albums are inward Google Photos, in addition to Google+, Blogger in addition to Hangouts albums are inward the new Album Archive
November 2018: Google Photos removes the choice to portion images to Google+ directly

Your Google+ Photos volition move available inward Google Photos, Google Drive in addition to Picasa Web Albums, but you lot volition no longer receive got access to Google+ Photo features.

November 2015: the album gallery page for Google+ Photos is no longer accessible in addition to the novel Google+ does non receive got a Photos tab

Google Photos tin move accessed at photos.google.com in addition to inward the Google Photos mobile app
Picasa Web Albums tin move accessed at https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos

Without a Google+ Profile:

• You volition no longer move able to usage Auto Backup to dorsum upwardly photos to your Google account from your telephone or tablet   Auto Backup your photos amongst Google Photos on desktop or mobile device, or Google Drive
• You volition lose access to the Google+ photograph editing tools Edit photos inward Google Photos
• If you lot receive got Auto Enhance turned on when you lot delete your Google+ Profile, you lot won't move able to plough it off. Check your Google+ Photo settings before downgrading.
  As of June 2015 AutoEnhance is off past times default for all uploads.
• You volition probable lose all the Stories created from your Google+ photos in addition to videos  Create, edit in addition to thought Stories inward Google Photos.
• Your Google+ Photos from Posts, Blogger weblog albums in addition to Hangouts albums tin move works life inward Picasa Web Albums Album Archive

Hangouts

The only Hangouts features that require a Google+ Profile are the Google+ Hangouts Apps inward Hangouts on Air in addition to the former Hangouts Video telephone telephone interface. Most of those apps volition move retired Apr 25, 2017.

Without a Google+ Profile:

• Access Hangouts at hangouts.google.com, in your Gmail account or using the Chrome Hangouts app or extension
• You will no longer move able usage the Chrome Hangouts extension on your desktop computer. Update September 2014: it is now possible to use the Chrome Hangouts extension without a Google+ Profile. H5N1 Google describe concern human relationship is even thus required.
  
• You volition only move able to participate inward 1:1 video calls, but non larger grouping video calls, using your personal Gmail identity. Update March 2015: at nowadays you lot tin participate inward grouping video calls amongst a Gmail identity. 
  You will move able to participate inward grouping video calls using your Google+ Page identity only if you lot receive got a lead sign-in (set before September 2016).
• In video calls you lot volition not move able to usage Hangouts Video Call Apps other than Chat in addition to Screensharing (NOTE: every bit of Apr 2017 the Google+ Hangouts API is no longer supported, in addition to most video telephone telephone apps are no longer available) 
• You cannot usage the iOS Hangouts App without a Profile.
  However, you lot tin usage the Android Hangouts app or the iOS Hangouts App with whatever Google account, whether it has a Google+ Profile or non (updated 10/1/14)
• You will non move able to portion photos during Hangout chats on whatever device. As of March 2015 you lot tin portion photos inward Hangouts chats amongst your non-Google+ Gmail account
• Your Hangouts albums can move works life in Picasa Web Albums (November 2015: Hangouts albums are no longer available inward Google+ Photos; August 2016: Picasa Web Albums retired, at nowadays Hangouts albums are inward Album Archive)
• You will non move able to host a Hangout on Air using your personal identity from a Google+ Event As of Nov 2015, you lot tin host a Hangout on Air from YouTube Live Events without a Google+-connected channel.
• As of September 2016 Hangouts on Air are component division of YouTube Live Events, no Google+ is required. .

YouTube   

As of Nov 2015, new YouTube channels are created without a Google+ Profile unless you lot usage a describe concern or other scream (Google+ Page). And every bit of Oct 2016, channels amongst a Business or Other Name are created on a Brand Account that does non receive got a Google+ Page.

The few remaining Google+ features on YouTube were removed inward Feb 2019.

YouTube usually works only fine without a Google+ Profile. However, if you lot receive got been using YouTube amongst a Google+ Profile identity, in that location volition move some pregnant changes upon deleting your Profile: 

• All comments made on YouTube videos amongst your Google+ Profile identity (since Nov 2013) will move permanently deleted along amongst your Profile. This cannot move undone! 
• If in that location is a YouTube channel connected to your Google+ Profile, deleting your Profile volition build the connected channel move private. If you've done this past times accident, it tin move reversed past times restoring your Google+ Profile.  Learn to a greater extent than here: YouTube Help: Google+ deletion or suspension
• Any post you lot created on Google+ nearly 1 of your ain videos volition move deleted from Google+. If it is also visible on YouTube, it volition move along to appear on YouTube.
• Any comment you lot created on YouTube inward response to a video, which is also visible on Google+ every bit a Google+ post, volition even thus be on YouTube but volition move deleted from Google+.
• Any comment you lot created on Google+ that is at nowadays only visible on YouTube, inward relation to a post someone else made nearly a YouTube video, volition even thus be on YouTube.
• Any +1 that you lot added on Google+ that is at nowadays only visible on YouTube every bit a like, inward relation to a post someone else made nearly a YouTube video, volition even thus be on YouTube.
• Any other posts, replies, comments or +1s relating to a YouTube video that you lot created originally on either Google+ or YouTube but which only at nowadays appear on Google+ volition move deleted.
• A Google+ Profile is required to acquire YouTube comment notifications nether the bell in addition to claim a novel Custom URL (December 2016: YouTube custom URLs independent of Google+, Update to the YouTube desktop notification bell)
• Visibility of your YouTube comments based Google+ audience settings for historic catamenia or geographical location volition no longer apply.  (June 2018: YouTube comment visibility is no longer controlled past times Google+ audience restrictions)

To usage Google+ features on YouTube without a Google+ Profile,  move your channel to a Google+ Page.

A banking concern complaint about YouTube CMS: (Note: this is no longer move truthful every bit of Nov 2015)

Access to the CMS interface is via the YouTube channel connected straight to the Google describe concern human relationship linked to your CMS. That way your YouTube channel must either move connected to a Google+ Profile or move completely disconnected from Google+.

If your YouTube channel is currently connected to a Google+ Profile, you must disconnect your channel from Google+ before deleting your Profile or you lot volition lose access to CMS. You also cannot movement your channel to a Google+ Page, because that volition also crusade you lot to lose access to CMS. 
(Note: this may no longer move truthful every bit of Nov 2015)

Blogger blogs

If you lot usage a regular Blogger profile, rather than having your weblog connected to Google+, deleting your Google+ Profile should crusade few changes.

Note: Google+ features were removed from Blogger prior to the shutdown of Google+ inward Apr 2019.  In Feb 2019 blogs using Google+ comments were switched to Blogger comments, in addition to Google+ Follower in addition to +1 gadgets were removed from weblog layouts. 
In March 2019 Blogger accounts using Google+ profiles volition move switched to Blogger profiles.  

• All of the Blogger weblog comments you lot receive got posted using the Google+ comment system - on your ain weblog or other people's blogs - will move permanently deleted along amongst your Profile.
• To usage Google+ comments in addition to other Google+ features on your Blogger blog, at to the lowest degree 1 weblog writer must move using a Google+ identity. 
• You tin use a Google+ Page identity for your blog if none of your blog’s authors receive got a Google+ Profile. Learn how to weblog amongst your Google+ Page identity.
• If you lot produce non desire to usage Google+ comment system, you lot tin disable Google+ comments inward your blog's Google+ settings before deleting your Profile. Note that volition build all Google+ comments disappear from your blog.
  Learn to a greater extent than here: Blogger Help: Google+ comment FAQ
• When you lot upload images to your weblog posts, your images are stored inward a blog-specific album that tin move accessed through Album Archive Picasa spider web albums or Google+ Photos. Google+ Photos volition move retired starting July 29, 2015. Nov 2015: your Blogger weblog album is no longer accessible inward Google+ Photos. August 2016: Picasa Web Albums retired, replaced past times Album Archive.
• If you lot produce non desire your weblog photos in addition to images to move “Auto Enhanced”, move certain to plough off that choice inward your Google+ settings (plus.google.com/settings) before deleting your Google+ Profile. (Google Photos are no longer auto-enhanced.)

Other Google Products in addition to Services

In improver to what I've noted above, in that location may move other changes to your Google describe concern human relationship when you lot delete your Google+ Profile.  You tin acquire to a greater extent than inward the Google Help Center.

How to delete your Google+ Profile

So you lot are certain you lot desire to delete your Google+ Profile. How produce you lot produce that? You tin delete your Google+ Profile inward either your Google+ Profile's Settings (plus.google.com/settings) or your Google describe concern human relationship settings (myaccount.google.com)

How to delete your Google+ Profile inward your Google+ Settings

  1. Sign inward to Google+

  2. Open your Google+ Settings from the left carte (plus.google.com/settings)

  3. At the really bottom of the Settings page, click the link to

Delete your entire Google profile here .

  4.  You volition in addition to then move shown whole page of information nearly what volition tumble out when you lot delete your Google+ Profile.  Read it carefully!

• At the top of the page it volition exhibit the e-mail associated amongst your Google+ Profile. Make certain you lot are deleting the right account!

• Read all the details to move certain you lot sympathize the changes to your account.

How to delete your Google+ Profile inward your Google describe concern human relationship settings

1. Sign inward to Google amongst the same e-mail you lot usage to sign inward to Google+

2. Click your profile photograph inward the upper right corner of whatever page on Google

3. Click the blueish "My Account" button, opening myaccount.google.com

4.  Under Account Preferences click Delete your describe concern human relationship or services opening myaccount.google.com/preferences#deleteservices

5. Click Delete products

6. Enter your Google describe concern human relationship password

7. Under Delete a Google service click the trash tin adjacent to Google+

8. Read all the displayed information, in addition to click the box that you lot sympathize (and move certain you lot do)

9. Click Delete Google+

Google+ on Android: Using the Google+, Google My Business in addition to YouTube apps without a Profile

Note: every bit of the terminate of 2016, none of these apps require a Google+ Profile

When you lot sign into a profile-free Google+ describe concern human relationship on a desktop figurer you lot volition move redirected to plus.google.com/dashboard where you lot tin select 1 of your Google+ Pages to manage.

It is slightly to a greater extent than involved to add together your describe concern human relationship to the electrical current version of the Google+ app on an Android telephone or tablet.

Add your describe concern human relationship to the Google+ App

1. If you lot receive got non yet added your Google describe concern human relationship to your device, you lot tin produce thus past times selecting "Add an account" inward the Google+ app settings

2. You volition move prompted to sign inward to your Google account, using your e-mail username in addition to password. During the describe concern human relationship improver process, you volition move asked if you lot desire to add together a Google+ Profile - "Upgrade to Google+" - you tin reject past times clicking "Not now"

3. Return to the Google+ app in addition to you lot volition move prompted to select 1 of your account's Google+ Pages

4. You tin add together additional Google+ Pages that are managed past times your describe concern human relationship to the Google+ app past times tapping your scream at the top of the screen, in addition to then selecting "Switch Google+ page"

Note: before versions of the Google+ app may prompt you lot to create a Google+ Profile when trying to sign in. To create this, update to the electrical current version of the app (4.4.0 or later) or set a password for your Google+ Page in addition to usage that to sign into the app.

Learn to a greater extent than nearly Google+ for Android


Manage your Pages amongst the novel Google My Business App


As of August 2016, the Google My Business App no longer supports Google+ Page management or creation.

The  Google My Business app allows you lot to create produce your Google+ Pages, add together in addition to take away managers, in addition to meet your Pages’ Insights . You tin sign inward to the app using whatever Google describe concern human relationship on your device. Once you lot are signed in, you lot volition receive got access to all of the Pages owned or managed past times your account.

You tin add together a Google describe concern human relationship to the app past times tapping the carte icon on the upper right, in addition to then selecting “Accounts” from the menu.

Once a Google describe concern human relationship has been added, switch betwixt Page identities past times tapping the carte icon on the upper left, in addition to then tapping the downwards arrow adjacent to the electrical current Page name. You can select a Page from the listing of recent Pages, or tap “All Pages” to meet all of the Pages you lot manage.

You tin also create a novel Google+ Page from within the Google My Business App.

Learn to a greater extent than nearly how to edit your Page information in addition to manage your Google+ Local Pages using the Google My Business app.


Use your Brand Account identity on YouTube

YouTube lets you lot easily switch betwixt your dissimilar channel identities on desktop in addition to mobile. If you lot receive got a YouTube channel on a Brand Account (with or without a Google+ Page), you lot tin switch amongst a twosome of clicks or taps.

Instructions inward the YouTube assist center.

Google+ on iOS: Profile Required

If receive got an iPhone, iPad or other iOS device, you lot cannot usage the Google+ App without a Google+ Profile.  It is also non currently possible to sign inward to a Google+ Page directly. (Note: every bit of Nov 2015, this may no longer move true)

Learn to a greater extent than nearly Google+ for iOS

Learn nearly signing inward in addition to switching channel identities inward Youtube app for iOS

Update June 24, 2014: The free Google My Business app for iOS devices allows you lot to create produce your Pages on your iPhone or iPad. Learn to a greater extent than nearly Google My Business on mobile. (As of 2016, the Google My Business app no longer supports Google+ Pages)

Add a Google+ Profile to your Account

If you lot produce create upwardly one's take heed you lot desire to receive got a Google+ Profile, it's slow to add together one.

Simply sign inward at plus.google.com/me in addition to fill upwardly out the Google+ Profile creation form.

Just recall that your Google+ Profile must correspond you lot every bit an individual, non your business, arrangement or brand.

Confused? Get Help!

If you lot receive got questions, banking concern correspond the Google assist centers or post a query inward 1 of the official Google assist forums or communities:
Google+ Help Center
Google My Business Help Center

Acknowledgements

The information inward this has come upwardly out of multiple discussions amongst my boyfriend Top Contributors, in addition to much troubleshooting inward the Google+ Help Community, in addition to the Hangouts, Youtube in addition to Blogger Help forums. Thanks specially to +Kaleh Kohler, +John Skeats, +Whiskey Schulze, +Pieter Roggemans, +Kamal Tailor, +Brian Kennelly, +Ziggy Dziegman, +David Kutcher, +Adam Auster, +Justin Lauschin, in addition to +Luiz Fernando who made specific suggestions for changes in addition to additions to my post in addition to helped exam diverse scenarios.

Last updated March 2019