Remove an image from Google

If you want to remove a photo from Google search results, you usually need to contact the site owner, the person who owns the site that has the paradigm.

Important: Nigh images that bear witness up in Google search results are from websites that aren't owned by Google, then we tin't remove these images from the web. This is why you should starting time contact the site's owner to inquire them to remove the paradigm.

How to remove an image from Google search results

We understand that you may want to remove certain images from search results as soon as possible. Withal, the procedure of removing images from search results can take some time.

Step one: Contact the site owner to take downward the paradigm

Hither are a few ways you lot tin contact the owner of a site:

  • Contact us link: Observe a "Contact us" link or an email accost for the site owner. This data is often on the site's homepage.
  • Find contact information using Whois: You tin can perform a Whois (who is?) search for the site owner using Google. Go to google.com and search for whois www.example.com. The e-mail address to contact the site owner tin often exist establish under "Registrant Email" or "Authoritative Contact."
  • Contact the site'due south hosting visitor: The Whois search result unremarkably includes information well-nigh who hosts the website. If yous're unable to achieve the site possessor, try to contact the site's hosting company.

Notation: If you prefer not to contact the site owner or are unable to get the image removed from a site, check other cases where Google may remove images from search results.

Tips to remove an epitome from a site

Remove an image uploaded to a social media platform

To remove an prototype from Google search results that was uploaded to a social media platform similar Facebook and Twitter, you lot must first remove the paradigm from the platform.

  • If you have admission to the account that uploaded the prototype, remove the image from the platform.
  • If y'all don't take access to that account, please contact the social media company for aid with removing the image.

Bank check the social media platform's help center

Nearly social media platforms have assistance resources on their epitome removal policies and processes.

  1. Check the social media platform's help eye. Here are some assist centers of popular platforms:
    • Facebook Assist Centre
    • Twitter Help Center
    • Instagram Aid Center
    • Pinterest Help Middle
  2. Search for keywords based on your situation. For example:
    • "Remove a photo"
    • "Study a photograph" or "take downwards photo"
    • "Impersonation" or "Fake accounts"
    • "Epitome removal policies"

Remove an prototype from your own site

Remove an image y'all uploaded to a Google product

You lot tin remove a photo that yous uploaded to a Google product from your Anthology Archive or Google Photos. When you delete a photo from your Album Archive, the photograph is removed from all Google products that it appears in, like Blogger, Hangouts, and Google Photos.

  1. Go to your Album Annal.
  2. Open the photo you want to delete.
  3. At the peak right, select More More and then Delete photo Delete.
  4. If you don't notice "Delete photograph," select Manage in Google Photos to delete the photograph.

Acquire how to delete your photos in Google Photos.

Pace two: Inquire us to remove the deleted epitome from search results

Later the site owner removes the epitome from their site, the image volition eventually be removed from Google Search equally office of our regular updating procedure. You can also asking to remove the paradigm from Google Search.

Asking removal of a deleted image from Google Search

Function ane: Copy the image link accost

  1. Search for the image you want to remove at images.google.com.
  2. In search results, right click the image thumbnail and choose Copy link address.
    • Annotation: Different browsers may take different names for copying link location.

Part 2: Request removal from Google search results

  1. Click Request removal beneath.
    Asking removal
  2. Click New request and then Image.
  3. Select Enter "Re-create link accost" URL from Paradigm Search results.
  4. In the "Search results URL" box, paste the link address.
  5. Click Submit.

You can check the status of your request on the Remove outdated content folio.

Enquire Google to remove specific images from Search results

We recognize that it can be sad to observe certain images of yourself or your information in search results.

In limited cases, Google may remove links to the image from Google Search. This doesn't remove the image from the site it was linked from.

To support you through the removal request procedure of such images and videos from Google search results, follow the steps below for your situation.

Remove image with sensitive fiscal, medical, or national ID info

Nosotros may remove information that we classify equally presenting a gamble of identity theft or fraud to the individual.

Requirements

For the states to consider the content for removal, it must pertain to the following types of data:

  • Confidential government identification (ID) numbers similar U.S. Social Security Number, Argentine Single Revenue enhancement Identification Number, Brazil Cadastro de pessoas Físicas, Korea Resident Registration Number, China Resident Identity Carte du jour, etc.
  • Bank account numbers
  • Credit card numbers
  • Images of handwritten signatures
  • Images of ID docs
  • Highly personal, restricted, and official records, like medical records
  • Personal contact info (physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses)
  • Confidential login credentials

Request to remove prototype from Google Search

If the image meets the requirements in a higher place, you or an authorized representative can asking a removal of the paradigm from Google search results. To make a request, click the button below.

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Remove non-consensual explicit or intimate personal image or "revenge porn"

Nosotros may remove intimate or explicit images and videos (sometimes referred to every bit "revenge porn") that were shared without consent.

Of import: To report imagery that is sexually abusive towards children, follow the steps to written report child sexual abuse imagery.

Requirements

For the states to consider the content for removal, it must see both of these requirements:

  1. The imagery shows you lot (or the individual you're representing) nude, in a sexual act, or an intimate land.
  2. You (or the private you're representing) didn't consent to the imagery or the deed and information technology was made publicly available OR you intended the content to be individual and the imagery was made publicly available without your consent.

Request to remove image from Google Search

If the image meets the requirements above, yous or an authorized representative tin request a removal of the image from Google search results. To make a request, click the push button below.

Tip: You'll need to provide screenshots of the image yous want united states to remove. We encourage you lot to edit the screenshots to obscure the sexually explicit portions, but please ensure nosotros can still identify the epitome.

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What nosotros include in our review

We take public interest and newsworthiness into account when determining if content will be removed.

  • In the vast majority of cases, these types of images and the content that accompanies them accept no public involvement value.
  • In very rare cases, we may not remove reported content based on a strong public interest.
  • In other cases, there may exist information provided alongside an prototype that is in the public involvement to remain available in our results, but instances of the image itself without context may be removed.

Remove involuntary fake pornography

Nosotros may remove involuntary faux pornography of you from Google search results, if the paradigm or video meets the requirements below.

Requirements

For us to consider the content for removal, it must meet all of these requirements:

  1. You're identifiably depicted in the imagery.
  2. The imagery in question is imitation and falsely depicts yous nude or in a sexually explicit situation.
  3. The imagery was distributed without your consent.

Request to remove paradigm from Google Search

If the image meets the requirements above, y'all or an authorized representative can request a removal of the prototype from Google search results. To brand a request, click the push below.

Tip: You'll need to provide screenshots of the epitome you desire united states to remove. We encourage yous to edit the screenshots to obscure the sexually explicit portions, merely delight ensure we tin still identify the epitome.

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Remove personal image hosted on a site that has exploitative removal practices

Upon request, under some circumstances, we may remove links to content from Google search results when a site or other agency requires you to pay them directly to remove the content.

Requirements

For us to consider the content for removal, it must meet all of these requirements:

  1. You are the subject of the content in the submitted URL.
  2. The website is non a business organization review site.
  3. The website has removal practices that necessitate payment to the site, or other agencies, to have content removed.

Asking to remove epitome from Google Search

If the image meets the requirements above, yous or an authorized representative can request a removal of the image from Google search results. To make a request, click the button beneath.

Tip: You'll demand to provide screenshots of the image yous want u.s. to remove. We encourage you to edit the screenshots to obscure the sexually explicit portions, but delight ensure we can nonetheless identify the image.

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Remove image of a minor (anyone nether eighteen)

Google removes images of anyone beneath the historic period of 18 from search results at the request of the individual under 18 or their parent or guardian, with the exception of cases of compelling public interest or newsworthiness. This means these images won't appear in the Images tab or as thumbnails in any feature in Google Search. This article is intended to support you through the process for removal requests of such content from Google search results.

Important: If your asking is to remove an explicit paradigm of a small, report content that is sexually abusive towards children.

Requirements

For usa to consider the content for removal, it must run into all of the following requirements:

  1. The URLs submitted are image URLs.
    • Web URLs (pages with both text and images) are not eligible for removal under this policy, which seeks to limit the presence of images in Google search results.
  2. The imagery includes an identifiable individual who is currently under the historic period of 18.
    • Nosotros'll also remove images in the tragic situation of a child who has died before reaching the age of 18.
  3. The removal requestor is either the individual themself, a legal guardian for the individual, or an authorized representative of either.

Request to remove image from Google Search

If the image meets the requirements above, you lot or an authorized representative can request a removal of the paradigm from Google search results. To make a request, click the push below.

Important: We simply review the URLs that you or your authorized representative submits in the form.

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Remove paradigm for legal reasons

We remove content from Google'south services under applicable laws.

Intellectual holding issue

To request the removal of an epitome from Google Search due to an intellectual property violation, like copyright infringement or circumvention, trademark infringement, and apocryphal, click the push button below.

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Other legal reasons

We can remove images from Google Search for other legal reasons, specifically requests associated with:

  • Court orders, where a court determined that specific content is unlawful.
  • Child sexual corruption textile, which is any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct that involves a pocket-size.
  • Legal effect: a legal outcome not already listed.

To request the removal of an image from Google Search for a legal reason listed higher up, click the button beneath.

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Related resources

  • Remove your personal information from Google

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