How to Remove Your Address and Phone Number From Google

What Google will and will not remove

According to Google's help page on removing private information (last checked October 31, 2026), you can ask Google to remove some personal information from Search results. The list includes your address, phone number or email, confidential government IDs such as a Social Security number, bank account or credit card numbers, pictures of your signature or ID, private records such as medical records, and confidential usernames and passwords.

There is an important limit. Google's page says it can only remove things from Google Search results. If you want something taken off the website that hosts the content, you have to contact the website's owner. Even after Google removes a result, the page may still be reachable through links, social media or other search engines.

Google also says public interest matters. If content is newsworthy or important to the public, Google might not take it down. Its Results about you page adds that results from sites such as government, educational, newspaper or business websites may not offer a remove option.

Step 1: use Results about you

Results about you is Google's tool for finding your contact details in search results. The steps below follow Google's help page, Find and remove personal contact info in Google Search results. Google says some of these features are rolling out in certain markets and for users over 18, so what you see may differ from what we describe. If a button is missing or named differently, use the help page as your reference.

Go to the Results about you page while signed in to your Google account. In the Google app, tap your profile picture or initial, then choose Results about you.
Select Get started or Settings.
Enter your name and the personal info you want Google to look for. Google says you can add extras such as a nickname, maiden name, several phone numbers, several home addresses and several email addresses.
Optionally set up notifications. Google says you will get an email or app notification when results match, and again when new matching results appear.
Open the To review tab. Select a result to see the website it came from and the info it contains.
To ask for removal of a single result, expand it and choose Request to remove. If you would rather not, you can choose Mark as reviewed instead.

Google says you get an email to confirm the request and another when it has been reviewed. You can check progress any time under Removal requests on the same page, where a request shows as in progress, approved, denied or undone. Google notes there may be a delay between approval and the result actually disappearing from search.

Step 1b: report a result you found by searching

You can also start from the search results page. Google's help page describes this route:

Sign in to your Google account, then search for your name. Searching your name with your home city, or with your home address, is a good way to find pages that show contact details.
On the result, open the About this result panel (the More option). Choose Remove result, then the option saying it shows your personal info and you do not want it there, then Contact Info.
Go through the reporting flow and submit. When it asks, enter your name and the contact info exactly as it appears on the result page, including an old address or a nickname if that is what the page shows.
You only need to include one type of contact info in the request, for example the phone number or the home address, and you do not need separate requests for the same page address.

If you do not want to sign in, or you are asking on someone else's behalf, Google points to a detailed removal request form instead. If the person is under 18, Google says to use that detailed form too.

If the page has changed or no longer exists

Sometimes the address is already gone from the live page but Google still shows it in the snippet. Google has a separate Refresh outdated content tool for that. Per its help page, if you have already updated a live page, you do not have to fill out the form. If content was deleted from a site but still comes up in search, the description or cache might be outdated, and you can use Request refresh, enter the page address and submit. Images have a similar flow. Google also says you can check the status in Search Console under Refresh outdated content.

This tool is for pages that changed. It does not remove a page that still shows your details. For that, use the removal request above.

Step 2: deal with the source, which is where the data actually lives

Hiding a result from Google is useful but temporary in spirit, because the information sits on a website that other sites can copy. The more lasting fix is to ask the website itself to delete your listing. For the most common offenders, people-search and background-check sites, there are free opt-out forms. Our general walkthrough is in How to remove your personal information from the internet, and these guides cover specific sites:

A sensible order is to request the opt-out first, wait for the site to confirm, and then ask Google to refresh or remove the result if it still appears. If the page is gone, the Google result usually follows once Google re-crawls it, and the refresh tool can speed that up.

Step 3 (optional): a paid removal service

The catch with the free route is repetition. There are many sites, listings can return, and you have to keep checking. DeleteMe is one service that does that part for you. From DeleteMe's own website, as read on October 31, 2026: you give it your details, its team searches data brokers and people-search sites for where your information is listed, submits opt-out and removal requests, and keeps removing it over time. The info types it lists include name, age, address, phone number, relatives and past addresses.

We have not tested DeleteMe, so we cannot tell you how well it works or how fast. Pricing and plans change, so check the current page before buying. See DeleteMe's current plans (Affiliate link).

What it does not do: it does not remove results from Google Search for you, and it does not remove the page from a website that is not a data broker, such as a forum post or a news story. Those still need the Google tool and, for the source, a message to the site owner.

Checklist

Search your name with your city and with your address in a private window, and note every page that shows your phone number or address.
Turn on Results about you and enter the details you want monitored.
Submit a removal request for each result Google lets you remove.
Opt out at each people-search site that hosts your listing, and click the confirmation link in the email.
For a page that has changed, use Google's refresh outdated content tool.
For a page you cannot get taken down, contact the site's owner and ask them to remove it.
Check the Removal requests list for status, then search again in a few weeks. Listings can come back.
Set a calendar reminder to repeat the search every few months.

What to expect

Expect partial results. Google may fully remove a page, or it may only hide it for searches that include your name or identifier. Google's help page describes both outcomes and says you get an email either way. Requests can be denied, particularly for pages Google treats as public-interest content. A denied request is not the end: you can still go to the site's owner.

None of this makes you invisible. It makes casual searching harder, which is often what people want. If you are worried about stalking or harassment, Google also has a separate route for doxxing content, which its help page describes as personal info shared to harm you, so read that section on the removal help page.

One more free option, then the paid one

If you would rather not spend hours on forms, a paid service is a reasonable choice, but it is not required. Everything above is free. If you want to see what DeleteMe offers for the repetitive part, view DeleteMe (Affiliate link) and compare it to the time you would spend yourself.

Frequently asked questions

Does Google remove my address from the internet?

No. Google says it can only remove things from Google Search results. The page stays on the website that hosts it until that website removes it, and people may still find it through links, social media or other search engines.

Is Google's removal tool free?

Google's help pages describe the removal request and Results about you as tools you use with your Google account. We did not see a charge mentioned on those pages.

How long does a removal request take?

Google says you get an email confirming the request within a few hours and another when it has been reviewed, and that there may be a delay between approval and the result disappearing. It does not promise a fixed time, so we cannot either.

Why was my request denied?

Google says it considers whether content is valuable to the public, such as news or government pages, and may not remove it. The info must also be your personal info, not professional info. You can still contact the website owner about removing the page itself.

Do I need a paid service to do this?

No. The Google tools and the people-search opt-outs are free. A paid service only saves you the repeat work of checking many sites over time.