Get your number and details out of Google Search and caller ID

Last checked: 23 Oct 2026; Google and Truecaller pages combined 6 Nov 2026

Your phone number or address can show up in three different places, and each has its own removal route: in Google Search results, on the website that published it, and in caller ID apps such as Truecaller, which can show your name to someone you ring. Removing it from one doesn't remove it from the others.

Where your details show up, and how to remove them

Where	How to remove it	What it doesn't cover
Google Search results	Results about you: Google finds results showing your phone number, home address or email, and you ask for removal	The page stays on the website; other search engines and direct links still reach it
The website itself, such as a people-search site	Ask the website. See UK people-search sites or US people-search sites; in the UK, your right to erasure	Google may still show the old version until you ask it to refresh it
Google results with ID numbers, doxxing or intimate images	Google's other removal forms	Only the web addresses you list are checked
Truecaller caller ID	Unlist your number on Truecaller's website (deactivate first if you use the app)	Numbers marked as spam can't be unlisted; it can't be reversed

Google Search: Results about you

Google's "Results about you" tool looks for Google Search results that show your home address, phone number or email address, and lets you ask Google to remove them. It only changes what Google Search shows. The page itself stays on the website that published it.

What it covers, and where

Google says Results about you can approve removal of results showing your phone number, home address or email address. You need to be signed in to a Google Account. Google says some features are "rolling out" for users over 18 in "certain markets" and doesn't list the countries, so check whether it opens for you. For anyone under 18, Google points to its detailed removal request form instead.

Set it up

Open Results about you on the web, or in the Google app tap your profile picture or initial, then Results about you.
Select Get started or Settings and enter your name and the details you want Google to look for. You can add a nickname, a maiden name, and more than one phone number, home address or email.
Turn on notifications if you want them, by email or in the Google app. Google says the first check takes a few hours, and it tells you about new matches after that.

Ask for a result to be removed

Go to the To review tab and select a result.
Select Request to remove. If you're happy to leave it, choose Mark as reviewed.
Google emails you to confirm, and tells you if a request is denied. You can follow each request under Removal requests: In progress, Approved, Denied or Undone.

You can also start from an ordinary search. Signed in, search for your name, select More next to a result to open "About this result", then Remove result → It shows my personal info and I don't want it there → Contact Info. Google asks you to type your details exactly as the page shows them. One detail per request is enough.

What removal does and doesn't do

Usually: the page stops appearing in Google Search for any search.
Sometimes: it only stops appearing for searches that include your name. Google does this when the page also has information it considers useful to the public, or details about other people or businesses.
It stays online. In Google's words: "Whether your request is approved or denied, the info still exists on the source web page." Other search engines and direct links can still reach it.
Some results can't be removed this way. Google won't remove results from pages owned by government or educational bodies or newspapers, and you won't see the remove option on results it treats as valuable to the public, which it says can include business websites. It also won't remove details on a page you control yourself, such as your own social media or blog.
You can undo a request with Undo, but if someone else's request for the same page was approved, it stays out of the results.

To stop Google checking, go to Settings in Results about you and select Remove all personal info. Google says it doesn't share the details you give it or use them to personalise its other products.

Google's other removal forms

These go through Google's content removal form. You give the web address of each page and screenshots, and only the addresses you list are checked. You or someone representing you can ask.

ID numbers, bank details and private records

Google lists government ID numbers (such as tax ID or resident ID card numbers), bank account and card numbers, pictures of your signature or ID, private records such as medical records, and confidential usernames and passwords.

Doxxing

Google describes doxxing as people sharing your private information to harm you. It covers pages with your personal details alongside threats, or calls for others to harm or harass you, and pages that collect a lot of your personal details "without a legitimate purpose" (Google).

Intimate or sexual images, real or fake

Nude or sexual images or videos of you, including fake ones made with editing or AI, and pages that wrongly link your name to sexual content (Google). Google says it tries to remove copies too. Its help page lists support services, including the Revenge Porn Helpline in the UK and the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative in the US.

Pages that have already changed

If a site has removed your details but Google still shows the old version, use the Refresh Outdated Content tool: select Request refresh, enter the page's address and select Submit (Google). You can use it after a people-search site has deleted your listing.

For anything outside these policies, Google points to its Legal Help Center for requests under the law where you live. In the UK, you can also use your right to erasure with the website that holds the details.

Caller ID: unlisting your number from Truecaller

Truecaller is a caller ID and spam-blocking app. When you ring someone who uses it, it can show them a name for your number, even if you've never installed it. You can ask Truecaller to unlist your number on its website.

Where the names come from

In Truecaller's own words:

Contacts stay on the phone. Its European privacy policy says the app reads a user's contacts "on the device" to see whether a caller is already saved, and does not upload them to its servers. Its Facts page says the same.
Names suggested by other users. Users can suggest a name for a number they've dealt with. Truecaller says a suggested name is only shown on caller ID "once it has been verified through consistent community input".
Spam reports. Users can report a number as spam, and Truecaller uses those reports to label numbers.
Other sources. Truecaller says it may add information that is "publicly available" or comes from "information providers which collect data for example from public registers, telecom operators".
People who use the app choose the name on their own profile.

Truecaller's California policy also describes an "Enhanced Search" option that lets people who got the app from somewhere other than the App Store or Google Play share their address book. It says copies from those two stores don't share contacts.

Unlist your number

If you have a Truecaller account, deactivate it first. Truecaller's help gives the path: on Android, tap the profile icon → Settings → Privacy Center; on iPhone, tap the profile avatar (upper left) → Settings → Privacy Center. Then choose Deactivate.
Go to Truecaller's Unlist phone number page and select No, I want to unlist.
Enter your number. The box's example starts with a plus sign and country code (international format). Complete the security check if one appears, then confirm.
Truecaller says it can take up to 24 hours.

What unlisting doesn't cover

Numbers marked as spam. Truecaller says these "cannot be unlisted". In Europe, its privacy policy says to email support.eu@truecaller.com if you think a spam label is wrong.
Old searches. If your number still shows, Truecaller says it may be stored on the phone that searched for it before, and suggests clearing the app's history or cache on that phone.
Going back. The unlist page says unlisting "can't be reversed". It also says you lose the app's caller ID and spam protection, and that people won't know when you're calling.
Names in other people's contacts. Truecaller doesn't say whether unlisting changes the name someone has saved for your number in their own phone.

For Google Search results showing your number, see Results about you above.

Wrong name? (UK and Europe)

People who don't use Truecaller can correct the name shown for their number, unlist it or use their other data rights through Truecaller's non-user page, which its European policy links to. The page sends a one-time code by text message to the number to check it's yours. It lists UK, EU, EEA and Swiss country codes.

Delete your Truecaller account

In the app, go to Settings → Privacy Center and choose Deactivate, then unlist your number as above (Truecaller Help). Deactivating doesn't cancel a paid subscription: cancel it in the app store you bought it from (Truecaller's terms). For help, Truecaller gives support.eu@truecaller.com for the UK, EU and EEA, and support@truecaller.com elsewhere.

Your rights in the UK and EU

For people in the UK, EU, EEA and Switzerland, the company responsible is True Software Scandinavia AB in Stockholm (privacy policy).

Legal basis. For people who don't use the app, Truecaller says: "we rely on our legitimate interests and the legitimate interests of our users to process Non-users' phone numbers in the limited cases mentioned above." Because it relies on legitimate interests, you can use your right to object.
The publishing certificate. Truecaller says its search database is covered by a Swedish publishing certificate, a licence under Sweden's freedom-of-expression law, and that this takes some of the database's processing outside data protection law (the GDPR). The legitimate-interests basis above is for processing outside that certificate.
No notice to non-users. Truecaller says it doesn't tell people who don't use the app that it holds their number, citing an exception in the GDPR.
How long. It says name suggestions and numbers reported as spam are deleted two years after the suggestion or report.
Your rights. It lists access, correction, erasure, objection, restriction, portability, objecting to automated decisions, and withdrawing consent. Contact its data protection officer at dpo.eu@truecaller.com, or by post to Data Protection Officer, True Software Scandinavia AB, Mäster Samuelsgatan 56, 111 21 Stockholm, Sweden.
Complaints. To the Swedish data protection authority (IMY) or the one where you live. In the UK, that's the Information Commission (the ICO): see how to complain.

Your rights in the US

Truecaller's California policy says it does not sell or share California residents' personal information. You can ask to know what it holds or to delete it by emailing support@truecaller.com with the subject "California Request to Know" or "California Request to Delete", or by opening a ticket on its help site. It may send a code to your phone to check it's you. People who don't use the app can also contact it. Its policy for other countries says people who don't use the app can use whatever rights local data protection law gives them, and points to the same unlist page. It links a separate notice for Virginia, which we didn't read.

Sources

This page describes your options and how organisations say they handle requests. It isn't legal advice. See About & sourcing, or report a correction.