Enter the date of each Community Guidelines or copyright strike on your channel, and the tool above estimates when each one expires, when your posting restriction lifts, and how close you are to YouTube’s three-strike termination threshold, based on YouTube’s published rules.

Each Community Guidelines strike expires 90 days from the date it was issued, but the posting restriction that comes with it (one week for the first active strike, two weeks for the second) is counted from the date you acknowledged the strike, not the day it landed. So a creator who got a first strike on August 1 and acknowledged it on August 3 sees uploads unlocked on August 10, while the strike itself stays on the channel until October 30, exactly 90 days after it was issued.

Copyright strikes work differently. They only clear automatically if you complete Copyright School, and only while your channel has fewer than three active copyright strikes. Add each strike’s date and mark whether School was completed. If a strike came from a live stream being removed, mark that too, since only those strikes carry the separate seven and fourteen-day live-streaming restrictions.

The dot indicators track Community Guidelines and copyright strikes separately, because YouTube treats them as two independent systems rather than one shared count toward termination.

Use the “What if” section to simulate a hypothetical new strike landing today, or project your existing strikes onto a future date without adding anything hypothetical. Both recalculate instantly and don’t change your saved data.

This calculator doesn’t send your entries to a server; everything is stored only in your own browser. It’s an estimate based on YouTube’s published policies, not an official YouTube tool, so always confirm your actual status in YouTube Studio.