YouTube error code

429

YouTube has temporarily stopped accepting requests from your internet connection because too many arrived in a short period.

YouTube has temporarily stopped accepting requests from your internet connection because too many arrived in a short period. This is rarely about you personally. It usually happens on shared connections such as an office, a campus, a hotel, or through a VPN where hundreds of people appear to YouTube as a single address. The block lifts by itself.

You may also see

  • Too Many Requests
  • 429. That's an error.

Try this first

Wait, then try again

15 minutes
  1. 1.Leave it for ten to fifteen minutes without reloading.
  2. 2.Repeatedly refreshing makes it worse, because each refresh counts as another request.
  3. 3.Try again after that.

Where this code shows up

Mostly on Web browser, Android, iPhone. If you’re on something else, the fixes above still apply — the menu names will differ.

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Checked 2026-08-06 · source