How to Verify Twitch Without Using Your Personal Phone Number

Twitch requires phone verification for a growing list of things: unlocking chat on some channels, subscribing, using extensions, or recovering a flagged account. Streamers and viewers testing a second account, or anyone who'd rather not tie their real number to a gaming account, run into this the same way.

Steps

1. Rent a number for Twitch — an instant rental is enough for the standard verification.

2. In Twitch's Security and Privacy settings (or wherever the specific feature prompts for it), enter the rented number with its country code.

3. Twitch sends a verification code by SMS within seconds on a working number.

4. Enter the code from your rental's status page to finish verifying.

Instant or monthly?

An instant rental is enough for a one-off verification. A monthly rental only makes sense if you expect Twitch to text that number again — most verification flows here don't require that.