How to Open Advanced Settings in YouTube

Manage captions, subscriber count visibility, and more in your channel's advanced settings

Co-authored by Carin Bennett

Last Updated: June 2, 2025

YouTube's advanced settings page allows you to manage your channel and gives you options such as adding channel keywords and changing your country. This wikiHow article will show you how to open YouTube's advanced settings.

Quick Steps

Go to https://www.youtube.com/ in a web browser and sign in.
Click your profile icon and click Creator Studio.
Click the Channel tab in the left panel to expand it.
Click Advanced in the left panel.

Steps

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Go to YouTube and sign in. Visit youtube.com in your web browser and sign in with your Google account if you're not already signed in.
2
Open the Creator Studio. Click your profile picture at the top-right and select Creator Studio.

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Navigate to your channel settings. Select "CHANNEL" from the left panel.
4
Go to the advanced settings page. Click on the "Advanced" option under the "CHANNEL" header.
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Finished. You can also get to this page directly by going to youtube.com/advanced_settings.

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I need to make my channel public. What can I do?

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Your channel already is public. There is no way to make your channel private. However, you can change the settings of an individual video to public, private, or unlisted.

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