A few years back I had a YouTube channel that was linked to a gmail account. My only backup for that gmail account was a phone number I had with iD mobile. I hadn’t logged into my YouTube account for a while until one day I realised I had over 14,000 subscribers !
The issue is that now Google won’t let me sign back in without 2 Step Verification, which can ONLY be confirmed with this old phone number.. that iD mobile have ‘deactived’.
Phone numbers are recycled all the time, so I don’t see why this number can’t be reactived so that I can receive a code from Google. I would give my right arm to get this Youtube account back!