Guide · By Ghost Delete · November 14, 2026

How to Remove Your Address and Phone Number from Google Search

Google's free Results about you tool finds search results showing your home address, phone number, email, or ID numbers and lets you ask Google to remove them. Here is how to use it, what Google will and will not take down, and the one limit that catches everyone.

The problem: Google is the shortcut to your listing

When someone searches your name, Google shows them the data broker listings: your home address, phone number, age, and relatives, on the first page. The broker owns the listing, but Google is how anyone finds it. Removing the Google result does not remove the listing. It removes the shortcut. That is still worth doing, because most people never click past Google, but it is not the whole fix. The whole fix is removing the listing at the source, which means opting out at the brokers themselves. Do both.

What Results about you does

Results about you is a free Google tool that watches Search for your contact details, tells you when it finds them, and gives you a button to ask for the result to be taken out of Search. It launched in September 2022, added alerts in August 2023, was rebuilt in February 2025, and started catching government ID numbers in February 2026. Google says more than 10 million people have used it. Set it up once and it keeps looking for new results on its own.

Step 1: Set it up

Go to myactivity.google.com/results-about-you and sign in, or open the Google app, tap your profile picture, and choose Results about you. Add what you want watched: your name plus any nickname or maiden name, and every phone number, home address, and email address you have used. Since February 2026, Google also monitors for a driver's license, passport, or Social Security number showing up in Search, so add those too if you want them watched. You need a Google account, you need to be over 18, and the tool needs to be available in your country, which includes the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

Step 2: Review and request removal

When the tool finds a result showing your details, open it, look at what the page is actually showing, and choose Request to remove on the ones you want gone. Google reviews the request and emails you the decision. You can also start a request straight from a search result: tap the three dots next to it, open About this result, and choose Remove result. If a result is approved, Google takes the page out of Search, either for every search or only for searches that include your name, depending on what else is on the page.

What Google will remove

Google's policy covers your home address, phone number, and email address, plus government ID numbers, bank and credit card numbers, pictures of your signature or ID, confidential medical records, and login credentials. It also covers doxxing, non-consensual explicit images, and pages that falsely tie you to sex work. For anything Results about you does not cover, there is a detailed removal request form that takes up to 1,000 URLs in one submission.

What Google will not remove

Google will not remove results from pages it decides are in the public interest, which covers government websites, educational institutions, and news coverage. It will not remove your own posts, photos, or profiles, because you control those yourself. It will not remove a result just because it is unflattering, old, or embarrassing, or because it shows professional information such as a business phone number listed on a company site. Outside the EU and UK, there is no Google form for delisting name searches under data protection law, so the only way to change what Google shows for those pages is to change or remove the page itself.

The limit that catches everyone

Google says it plainly: removing information from Google Search does not remove it from the web entirely. The people-search site still has your file. It still sells it. Anyone who goes to that site directly, or uses a different search engine, finds exactly what they found before. What gets removed is the shortcut. For a real fix, you need to go after the source, which means opting out at the data brokers themselves. Our DIY guide has the exact opt-out link for each broker, starting with the PeopleConnect suppression request that covers TruthFinder, InstantCheckmate, Intelius, USSearch, and more in one submission.

What to do after Google

1. Opt out at the brokers themselves, starting with the biggest people-search sites.
2. Use Google's Refresh Outdated Content tool for any result that points to a page that is already gone, so Google refreshes the snippet.
3. Leave Results about you running, so it alerts you when a new result appears.
4. Re-check every few months, because brokers re-list people when they buy fresh data.