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How to Remove Your Home from Google Street View (2026)
Last updated September 1, 2026
Google Street View shows a street-level photo of your home to anyone who opens Street View on your block. Google will permanently blur it — but only if the request comes from you.
Before you start: the honest math
- This site: about 20 minutes to file, then a reply to read, then up to three follow-ups over the 45 days the law gives them to act. Many sites go quiet until you follow up.
- Your home and your name are on 925 sites like this one, each with its own process, its own inbox, and its own excuses. Done by hand, that's 250+ hours spread across months.
- Then it comes back. These sites re-import from public records and each other. What you removed in March can reappear in September, and the whole list starts over.
- HomeCloak: $109.99 a year. Every request filed the moment you subscribe, with a signed authorization brokers can't bounce. Every reply read and answered. Every silence followed up at 14, 30, and 45 days. Everything re-filed when it comes back, and every new site we find added automatically. You just watch the statuses change.
What it takes to get this removed
Roughly 20 minutes to file on your own, plus reading the reply and following up when they don't answer. Here's what it involves.
- The request has to be submitted by you, from inside Google Maps, on the exact image of your house. There is no email, no form a third party can file, and no agent option.
- Getting it right the first time matters: the blur is permanent, and a vague or misplaced request is quietly ignored. We prepare the submission so your part takes about two minutes.
- Google never tells you when it's done. Someone has to check the imagery weeks later — we do that automatically at 3 and 6 months and email you when the blur is confirmed.
Worth knowing
- The blur is irreversible — Google warns it cannot be undone, even if you sell the house.
- This covers Street View only; Google offers no blurring for satellite/aerial imagery.
What to expect
- The map provider processes blur requests on its own schedule — typically weeks, sometimes months.
- Re-check the same view periodically; there's no notification when the blur is applied.
Common questions
Is it legal to have my home's photos and information removed from Google Street View?
Yes. State consumer-privacy laws — the California CCPA/CPRA and a growing list of similar laws in other states — give you the right to ask for your personal information to be deleted. Most sites also honor removal requests under their own published privacy policies, no matter which state you live in.
How long does Google Street View take to remove a listing?
Privacy laws generally allow up to 45 days for a verified deletion request, with one 45-day extension in complex cases. In practice many sites act within days to a couple of weeks. If you hear nothing by day 45, send a follow-up referencing your original request date.
Will my home's photos and information come back after removal?
It can. Sites like Google Street View routinely re-import from public records and upstream data brokers, so a successful removal today can quietly reappear months later. That's why re-checking periodically matters — or using a monitoring service that re-files the removal automatically when something resurfaces.
Google Street View is 1 of 925 sites showing your home or your name.
You just read what one of them takes. Working through all 925 yourself is 20+ hours of filing, reading replies, and following up on silence over two months, and then doing it again when your listings come back. HomeCloak files every one the moment you buy, with a signed authorization attached, reads every reply, follows up at 14, 30, and 45 days, shows you each status as it changes, and re-files anything that comes back. $109.99 a year, up to 3 properties.