Remove an image from Google

If you want to remove a photograph from Google search results, you commonly need to contact the site possessor, the person who owns the site that has the image.

Important: Most images that show upward in Google search results are from websites that aren't owned by Google, then we tin can't remove these images from the spider web. This is why you should starting time contact the site's possessor to ask them to remove the image.

How to remove an image from Google search results

Nosotros understand that you lot may want to remove certain images from search results every bit soon as possible. However, the process of removing images from search results can take some fourth dimension.

Step 1: Contact the site owner to take downwards the image

Here are a few ways you can contact the possessor of a site:

  • Contact us link: Observe a "Contact u.s." link or an email accost for the site owner. This data is often on the site's homepage.
  • Notice contact data 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 email accost to contact the site owner can often exist constitute under "Registrant Electronic mail" or "Authoritative Contact."
  • Contact the site's hosting company: The Whois search result usually includes information well-nigh who hosts the website. If you lot're unable to reach the site owner, try to contact the site's hosting visitor.

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

Tips to remove an prototype from a site

Remove an paradigm uploaded to a social media platform

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

  • If you have admission to the account that uploaded the image, remove the paradigm from the platform.
  • If you don't have admission to that account, please contact the social media visitor for help with removing the image.

Check the social media platform's help heart

Most social media platforms accept assist resources on their image removal policies and processes.

  1. Bank check the social media platform's help center. Here are some help centers of popular platforms:
    • Facebook Help Center
    • Twitter Help Heart
    • Instagram Assistance Heart
    • Pinterest Help Center
  2. Search for keywords based on your situation. For example:
    • "Remove a photo"
    • "Study a photo" or "accept down photo"
    • "Impersonation" or "Fake accounts"
    • "Image removal policies"

Remove an image from your own site

Remove an prototype you uploaded to a Google product

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

  1. Go to your Album Archive.
  2. Open up the photo you lot want to delete.
  3. At the top right, select More More and then Delete photo Delete.
  4. If you lot don't detect "Delete photo," select Manage in Google Photos to delete the photo.

Learn how to delete your photos in Google Photos.

Stride two: Enquire u.s.a. to remove the deleted image from search results

Subsequently the site possessor removes the epitome from their site, the image will eventually be removed from Google Search as part of our regular updating procedure. You can as well request to remove the image from Google Search.

Request removal of a deleted image from Google Search

Part 1: Copy the image link address

  1. Search for the paradigm y'all want to remove at images.google.com.
  2. In search results, right click the image thumbnail and choose Copy link address.
    • Note: Unlike browsers may take dissimilar names for copying link location.

Part 2: Request removal from Google search results

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

You can check the condition of your asking on the Remove outdated content page.

Ask Google to remove specific images from Search results

We recognize that it tin can exist distressing to find certain images of yourself or your information in search results.

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

To back up you lot through the removal request process of such images and videos from Google search results, follow the steps below for your situation.

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

We may remove data that we allocate equally presenting a risk 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 like U.South. Social Security Number, Argentine Single Taxation Identification Number, Brazil Cadastro de pessoas Físicas, Korea Resident Registration Number, Communist china Resident Identity Card, etc.
  • Bank account numbers
  • Credit card numbers
  • Images of handwritten signatures
  • Images of ID docs
  • Highly personal, restricted, and official records, similar medical records
  • Personal contact info (concrete addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses)
  • Confidential login credentials

Asking to remove image from Google Search

If the image meets the requirements to a higher place, you or an authorized representative can request a removal of the image 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"

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

Important: To written report imagery that is sexually calumniating towards children, follow the steps to report kid sexual abuse imagery.

Requirements

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

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

Request to remove image from Google Search

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

Tip: You lot'll demand to provide screenshots of the paradigm you lot desire us to remove. We encourage you to edit the screenshots to obscure the sexually explicit portions, but please ensure we tin can still identify the image.

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What nosotros include in our review

We have public interest and newsworthiness into account when determining if content volition exist removed.

  • In the vast majority of cases, these types of images and the content that accompanies them have no public involvement value.
  • In very rare cases, nosotros may non remove reported content based on a stiff public interest.
  • In other cases, at that place may exist information provided alongside an image that is in the public interest to remain bachelor in our results, but instances of the image itself without context may be removed.

Remove involuntary false pornography

We may remove involuntary fake pornography of yous from Google search results, if the image or video meets the requirements below.

Requirements

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

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

Request to remove image from Google Search

If the image meets the requirements above, you lot or an authorized representative tin can request a removal of the prototype from Google search results. To brand a asking, click the push button below.

Tip: You lot'll need to provide screenshots of the image you lot desire united states of america to remove. We encourage you lot to edit the screenshots to obscure the sexually explicit portions, but please ensure we tin nonetheless place the prototype.

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Remove personal paradigm 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 y'all to pay them directly to remove the content.

Requirements

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

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

Request to remove image from Google Search

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

Tip: You'll demand to provide screenshots of the image you desire us to remove. Nosotros encourage you lot to edit the screenshots to obscure the sexually explicit portions, but please ensure nosotros can still identify the image.

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Remove image of a small-scale (anyone under 18)

Google removes images of anyone below the historic period of eighteen from search results at the request of the individual nether eighteen or their parent or guardian, with the exception of cases of compelling public interest or newsworthiness. This means these images won't announced in the Images tab or as thumbnails in any characteristic in Google Search. This article is intended to back up y'all through the procedure for removal requests of such content from Google search results.

Of import: If your request is to remove an explicit paradigm of a pocket-sized, written report content that is sexually calumniating towards children.

Requirements

For us to consider the content for removal, it must meet 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 nether 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 eighteen.
    • We'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 prototype from Google Search

If the prototype meets the requirements above, you lot or an authorized representative tin can asking a removal of the image from Google search results. To brand a request, click the button below.

Important: We merely review the URLs that yous or your authorized representative submits in the form.

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Remove prototype for legal reasons

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

Intellectual property issue

To request the removal of an epitome from Google Search due to an intellectual property violation, similar copyright infringement or circumvention, trademark infringement, and counterfeit, click the 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 courtroom determined that specific content is unlawful.
  • Child sexual abuse textile, which is any visual depiction of sexually explicit comport that involves a small.
  • Legal issue: a legal effect not already listed.

To request the removal of an epitome from Google Search for a legal reason listed above, click the push button beneath.

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Related resources

  • Remove your personal information from Google

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