How to Remove Your Phone Number and Home Address From Google Search

You can ask Google to remove search results that expose your home address, phone number, or personal email address by using its “Results about you” tool. Sign in, add the contact information you want Google to monitor, review matching results, and select Request to remove. You can also report a result directly from Google Search through the “About this result” menu.

Removal from Google Search does not delete the information from the website that published it. For the strongest protection, submit the Google request and ask the source website to remove the page or personal details.

What personal information can Google remove?

Google’s current private-information removal policy covers several types of personally identifiable information, including:

• Home address
• Personal phone number
• Personal email address
• Confidential government identification numbers
• Bank account and credit card numbers
• Pictures of signatures or identity documents
• Private medical records
• Confidential usernames and passwords

The “Results about you” dashboard focuses on personal contact details and supported identifiers. Google says some monitoring features are still rolling out to users over 18 in certain markets. For information about someone under 18, use Google’s detailed removal form rather than setting up monitoring through your own account.

How to remove your phone number or address with Results about you

Step 1: Open the Results about you dashboard

On a computer or mobile browser, visit Google’s Results about you page and sign in. In the Google mobile app, tap your profile picture or initial, then select Results about you.

Step 2: Add the information you want monitored

Select Get started or Settings. Enter your name and the personal information Google should look for. Google currently allows entries such as:

• Your legal name, nickname, or maiden name
• Multiple personal phone numbers
• Multiple current or former home addresses
• Multiple personal email addresses
• Supported government identifiers

Enter details exactly as they appear online. If an old address is exposed, add that old address rather than only your current one.

Step 3: Turn on notifications

Enable email or Google app notifications if you want alerts when matching results appear. Google performs regular checks and can notify you about new results containing the information you submitted.

Google says the monitoring information is used to find matches, process requests, improve the removal process, and show request status. It says the data is not shared or used to personalize other Google products.

Step 4: Review matching results

Open the To review tab. Expand a result to see the source website and the personal information it contains. Confirm that the page actually refers to you—especially if your name is common.

Step 5: Request removal

Select the result, then choose Request to remove. Google reviews the URL against its policy and sends confirmation and status updates to the email associated with your account.

You can track each submission under Removal requests. Statuses can include:

• In progress
• Approved
• Denied
• Undone

Google notes that an approved result may take several hours to disappear from Search.

How to report personal information directly from Google Search

If you find an exposed phone number or address while searching, you do not have to wait for the monitoring dashboard.

1. Sign in to your Google Account.
2. Search for your name. Add your city, address, phone number, or another identifier to narrow the query.
3. Click the three-dot More menu beside the result.
4. Choose Remove result.
5. Select It shows my personal info and I don’t want it there.
6. Select Contact info and complete the reporting flow.
7. Submit the request and save the confirmation email.

Enter the name and contact information exactly as displayed on the reported page. If one URL exposes both a phone number and an address, Google says you do not need separate requests for the same URL.

Why Google may deny a removal request

A request is not automatically approved simply because a page includes your name. Google reviews whether the information is personal, whether you control the page, and whether the result has public value.

The information is professional or publicly relevant

Google may keep results from government institutions, educational sites, newspapers, or business pages when it considers the information valuable to the public.

You control the source page

If the information is on your own website, blog, or social profile, Google expects you to remove or restrict it at the source. Once changed, you can ask Google to refresh its cached result.

The details do not match the request

A spelling difference, old address, nickname, or incomplete URL can prevent Google from confirming that the result contains the information you reported. Copy the displayed details carefully and provide the exact page URL.

The result concerns another person

“Results about you” is intended for the account holder’s own information. To submit a request for another person, use Google’s detailed form and confirm that you are authorized to act for them.

Does removal delete the information from the internet?

No. Google can delist a URL from its search results, but it does not control the original website. The page may still be accessible through:

• A direct link
• Other search engines
• Social media posts
• Archived copies
• Data broker or people-search services

Google says most approved URLs receive full removal from Search. In some cases, it applies query-based removal, meaning the page no longer appears for searches containing your name but may appear for other queries.

Contact the website owner and ask for the information to be deleted at the source. If the page has already changed but Google shows an old snippet or cached copy, use Google’s Refresh Outdated Content process.

What to do when a data broker exposes your address

People-search and data-broker websites often republish addresses, relatives, phone numbers, and age estimates. A Google removal request reduces discovery through Search, but the broker may retain the record.

1. Save the exact page URL and take a screenshot for your records.
2. Submit the URL through Results about you.
3. Find the broker’s privacy, opt-out, or removal page.
4. Submit a source deletion request using the minimum information required.
5. Keep the confirmation number and date.
6. Check the page again after the broker’s stated processing period.
7. Keep Results about you notifications enabled to detect reappearance.

Do not pay an unknown website merely because it threatens to keep your information online. Google has a separate policy for exploitative removal websites that demand payment to take down content about a person.

How to report doxxing and threats

Doxxing is the publication of private information to facilitate harm or harassment. Google may remove results containing personal information alongside explicit or implicit threats, calls for others to harm you, or a significant collection of personal details posted without a legitimate purpose.

Use Google’s detailed private-information form and preserve the exact URLs, screenshots, dates, and threat wording. If there is an immediate threat to physical safety, contact local emergency services or law enforcement rather than relying only on a search-removal process.

Do not engage publicly with the person posting the information if doing so could escalate the risk. Ask a trusted person to help document URLs while you secure affected accounts.

Secure your accounts after personal information is exposed

Removing a search result addresses visibility, not every risk created by the exposure. A phone number, email address, or date of birth can support phishing, password-reset attempts, SIM-swap fraud, and impersonation.

Change compromised passwords

If a password, recovery answer, or confidential username appears online, change it immediately. Use a unique password for every important account and store it in a reputable password manager.

Strengthen two-factor authentication

Prefer an authenticator app, passkey, or hardware security key over SMS when the service supports it. If you are changing devices, follow our guide to transfer Google Authenticator to a new phone without losing codes.

Review account recovery details

Check the recovery email, phone number, active sessions, trusted devices, forwarding rules, and connected applications for your email and financial accounts.

Watch for targeted phishing

An attacker who knows your address or employer can write convincing messages. Verify requests through a separate, trusted channel before sharing codes, money, documents, or login details.

Review browser access

Some extensions can read page content or browsing activity. Remove anything unnecessary and use our checklist for checking whether a browser extension is safe before installing new tools that promise automatic privacy cleanup.

How to reduce future personal information exposure

• Use a separate email alias for shopping, newsletters, and public contact forms.
• Avoid publishing a full home address on social profiles or business listings unless necessary.
• Review social-media audience settings and remove old public posts containing travel, school, workplace, or family details.
• Ask domain registrars to use privacy-protected registration where available.
• Keep resumes and portfolio contact details limited to what professional visitors need.
• Search your name, phone number, and email periodically using quotation marks.
• Maintain Results about you alerts for old and current contact details.

If you connect private services to AI tools, review how those tools use conversation and app data. Our guide explains how to change training and privacy settings in ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

How to stop Results about you monitoring

Open Results about you, go to Settings, and select Remove all personal info to stop monitoring and remove the information you entered into that feature.

This does not undo approved removals or delete information from third-party websites. It stops Google’s monitoring for the details associated with the dashboard.

Frequently asked questions

How long does Google take to remove personal information?

Google says it sends confirmation within hours and allows you to track the review status. Processing time varies. After approval, there can be an additional delay of several hours before the result disappears.

Can I remove an old address?

Yes. Add or report the old address exactly as it appears on the result. Results about you supports multiple home addresses.

Can I remove a page behind a paywall?

Yes. Google says personal information behind a paywall can still be reported, either from a Results about you notification or through the detailed request form.

Can Google remove newspaper or government pages?

Sometimes, but Google may deny requests when it considers the information valuable to the public. Other legal privacy-removal routes may apply depending on your country.

Will deleting my Google search history remove results about me?

No. Search history controls your account activity; it does not remove third-party pages from Google’s index. Use Results about you or the appropriate removal form.

Bottom line

To remove your phone number, home address, or email from Google Search, use Results about you, submit the exact matching URL, and monitor the request until it is approved or denied. Then contact the source website, because delisting a result from Google does not erase the underlying page. Keep alerts enabled and secure your accounts to reduce the harm if the information appears again.