Google Results About You: Remove Your Address and Phone

Results about you is a free Google tool, found at myactivity.google.com/results-about-you or in the Google app under your profile picture, that checks Search results for your home address, phone numbers, email addresses and, since February 2026 in the US, driver's license, passport and Social Security numbers. You can ask Google to remove matching results, but approval removes them only from Google Search; the page they come from stays online.

What the tool does

Search your name and you may find a people-search site listing your home address, an old forum post with your phone number, or a page that pairs your email with your city. Results about you is Google's way to deal with that inside its own search engine. It does three things:

monitors Google Search for results that contain the personal details you give it;
alerts you by email or in the Google app when new matches appear;
lets you request removal of individual results, and shows the status of each request.

Google's help page lists the details it can watch for: home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and government ID numbers such as Social Security, passport and driver's license numbers. You can add nicknames and maiden names, and more than one address, phone number or email.

The government ID part is the newest. Google announced it on February 10, 2026, rolling out in the US first, with other regions to follow. Some features are available only to users over 18 and only in certain markets; requests for people under 18 go through a separate removal form.

How to set it up and request a removal

Open myactivity.google.com/results-about-you in a browser, or in the Google app tap your profile picture and choose Results about you. Google's short link goo.gle/resultsaboutyou goes to the same hub.
Select Get started (or Settings if you have used it before) and enter your name and the contact details you want monitored. Add ID numbers only if you want those monitored too.
Turn on email or app notifications. Google says the first alert arrives within a few hours, and later alerts arrive when new matching results appear.
Open the results to review. For each one, request removal or mark it as reviewed.
Track your requests under Removal requests. Each shows In progress, Approved, Denied or Undone, and Google emails you a confirmation and updates.

After approval, it can take a few hours before the result stops appearing in Search.

What gets removed, and what does not

An approved request removes a result from Google Search. Google's help page is direct about the limit: it does not mean the information is gone from the internet. The page stays where it is, and anyone who visits the site, or uses another search engine, can still find it. To get the information taken down at the source, you have to contact the website owner.

Google also says some approvals are query-based: the URL is hidden only for searches that include your name, not for every search.

Google generally does not remove results from educational or government sites or from newspapers, because it considers them valuable to the public. Information you can remove yourself, for example on a blog you own, is not eligible; delete it there instead. If a request is denied, the reason appears in the tool. Google adds that misusing the feature can cost you access to it.

What else Google will consider removing

Results about you covers contact details and ID numbers. Google's wider policy on personal information in Search, which you can use through a separate request form, lists more categories:

your address, phone number or email;
Social Security or tax ID numbers, and resident ID card numbers;
bank account or credit card numbers;
pictures of your signature or ID documents;
private records such as medical records;
confidential usernames and passwords.

The same policy covers doxxing: Google will look at pages that pair your personal information with explicit or implicit threats, or that gather a significant amount of your personal information without a legitimate purpose. It weighs whether the content is newsworthy or in the public interest before deciding.

Asking a website to take the page down

When Google removes a result, the page is still on the site. If the information is wrong, outdated or dangerous to you, write to the site's owner too:

Look for a privacy, contact or "remove my information" link, often in the footer. People-search sites usually have an opt-out form.
Give the exact page address and say which details you want removed.
Keep copies of what you send and the date, in case you need to follow up.
Once the page changes, you can ask Google to refresh the result. Google says its systems will then recrawl the page and pick up the latest version, so the old snippet does not linger.

Who it helps most

The tool is most useful when a few people-search or directory pages dominate the results for your name. It is less useful for content on news sites or official records, which Google usually leaves up. If you live in California, pair it with the state's free DROP platform, which asks registered data brokers to delete their records about you. Removing the search listing and the broker's data together does more than either step alone.

Stopping new results from appearing

Many results come from data brokers, but some come from what people post themselves: a listing photo showing a house number, a picture of a parcel label, a screenshot with an email address in the corner. Before you post images like that:

strip the hidden location from photos with remove location from a photo;
cover addresses, plates and labels with redact image, which exports a fresh copy without metadata;
check what a photo carries with the EXIF viewer.

FAQ

Is Results about you free?

Yes. It is part of your Google Account and has no charge.

Does removing a result delete the information from the website?

No. It only stops Google Search from showing that result. Contact the site to have the page itself changed or removed.

Is it safe to give Google my ID numbers to monitor?

That is your call. Google needs the numbers to look for them in Search results. If you would rather not provide them, you can still monitor your address, phone and email.

How long does a removal take?

Google reviews each request, and approved removals can take a few hours to show in Search. The tool shows each request's status, and you get emails as it changes.

Is it available outside the United States?

Google's help page says some features are rolling out only for adults in certain markets, and government ID monitoring began in the US. Open the tool in your account to see what is offered where you live.

Will the result come back?

The source page is still online, so a new copy or a similar page can appear later. Keep alerts on so you hear about new matches.

Sources

Checked 2026-10-11.

Last updated: 2026-10-11

How to use Google's Results about you to remove your personal details