How to connect your Phone to your Desktop using YouTube TV activation code

YouTube allows you to link your YouTube mobile app – with the YouTube app on a smart TV using a YouTube TV activation code. Streaming content for long hours on the YouTube mobile app can be an exhausting experience. Mainly because of the smaller size of a mobile screen. Bigger screens help us curb that menace and enhance our viewing experience in more ways than one. Not only the visuals there are magnified, diverse and much clearer, but our eyes are also far more relaxed.

If you are looking for ways to connect your YouTube mobile app with your smart TV, you are just in time! Below we will walk you through the steps to accomplish just that.

Link Your YouTube Mobile App With The YT App On Your Smart TV Using YouTube Activation Codes

Step 1: Find Your YouTube Activation Code (Switch on your smart TV)

• Make sure the latest version of the YouTube app is installed on both of your devices (your smartphone and the smart TV)
• Make sure you are logged in with the same YouTube account on both your devices.
• Launch the YouTube app on your smart TV. You’ll see the YouTube home screen in front of you.
• Select the settings (gear) icon on your YouTube home screen.
• Select ‘Link with TV code’ from the list of options under the Settings menu.
• The Link with TV Code screen will appear – listing the next steps for connecting the YouTube app on your mobile device with your TV.
• At the bottom of the Link with the TV code screen, you will see the YouTube pairing code that will be required to link the YouTube app to your smart TV.
• Leave the screen open so you can refer to this number shortly.

Step 2: Insert the YouTube Activation Code (Unlock your smartphone)

• Launch the YouTube app on your android/iOS device. You will land on the home screen of your YouTube app.
• Tap the profile icon located on the top right corner of your YouTube app home screen.
• Tap Settings towards the bottom of the menu.
• Select Watch on TV under the ‘Settings’ menu.

• Tap enter TV code in the link with the TV code section
• The enter TV code screen appears
• Now enter the YouTube TV activation code displayed on the YouTube app on your smart TV.
• Once entered, a blue checkmark will appear on the right of your entered YouTube pairing code.
• Tap this blue button after entering the valid code.
• Once the link is successful, you will be returned to the YouTube home screen of the YouTube app.
• Now when you tap the ‘Connect To Device’ icon in the upper right corner of the YouTube app, a menu will fly up from the bottom displaying your connected TV as an option to connect to.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully connected your two smart gadgets using nothing, just the YouTube TV activation codes. You should now be able to seamlessly watch your favorite YouTube content on your smart TV as well. Keep in mind you would still need to navigate the YouTube app on your phone to find content, but then you will have the ability to watch the video on the connected TV’s YouTube app.

This process works the same for any other connected streaming device, for example, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast with Google TV, et cetera.