How to get nudes taken down
If your pictures are somewhere they should not be, this is the page. It walks through how to get nudes taken down in the order that works: evidence, hashing, platform reports, search removal, copyright, host abuse, and the law. Nothing here costs money.
Not legal advice. Free tools only. It is not your fault.
Save evidence before you report anything
Every instinct says get it down now. Spend five minutes documenting first, because a successful removal destroys the proof you may need for an appeal, a police report, or a civil claim.
Make a folder and keep it private. You do not need to look at the images more than once to do this. If it is too much, ask someone you trust to do it for you. If you are not sure where else the pictures have spread, the guide to finding out if your nudes leaked covers reverse image search and alerts.
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Screenshot the whole page
Include the URL bar, the username that posted it, the date, and any comments. Full-page captures are better than crops.
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Record the plain facts
Every URL, the account name, the platform, and the time you found it, in a text file. Add how you think it got there if you know.
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Do not contact the poster
Confronting them tips them off, invites more posting, and gives them a reaction to enjoy. Let the reports do the pressuring.
Hash the image so platforms block it automatically
This is the single most effective thing you can do, and the image never leaves your phone.
A hash is a digital fingerprint of a file. StopNCII.org, run by the UK Revenge Porn Helpline, generates that fingerprint on your own device and shares only the fingerprint with participating platforms, which include the biggest social networks and several adult sites. When someone uploads a matching image, it gets blocked or removed. You do not send the photo to anyone. You need to have a copy of the image, or the closest version you can find, to hash it.
StopNCII is for adults, meaning the image was taken when you were 18 or over. If the image was taken when you were under 18, including if you are an adult today, use Take It Down from NCMEC instead. Same idea, different legal category, and platforms treat those reports as the highest priority they have.
The honest limit: hashing only covers platforms that opted in, and a heavily cropped, re-encoded or edited copy can slip past a match. So hash every version you have, and keep going with the steps below. Hashing is the net; reports are the spear.
Report leaked nudes on each platform, and get them out of search
Every major platform has a specific report reason for intimate images shared without consent. Use that one, not the generic nudity option, because it routes to a different queue with faster handling.
Report the post, then report the account that posted it. Keep every ticket number and confirmation email in your evidence folder. If a report comes back rejected, appeal and state plainly that you are the person in the image and you did not consent. First-line review is often automated; appeals reach a human. On Reddit, report to the site admins as well as the subreddit moderators, since moderators can only remove from their own community. On Telegram and Discord, report the channel or server to the platform, not just the person, because that is what actually closes it.
Then search engines. Google has a dedicated removal request for explicit personal images that appear in results without consent, and it does not require the source site to cooperate. Bing has an equivalent. Delisting does not delete the page, but it removes the way most people would ever find it, and it is fast.
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Post report
Choose the non-consensual intimate imagery option. Attach nothing you do not have to; the platform already has the image.
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Account report
Accounts that post one leak usually post more. Reporting the account gets the rest of the profile reviewed.
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Search removal
Google's request form for explicit personal images, then Bing's. Submit every URL you recorded.
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Appeal rejections
One sentence, plain, first person. Attach the police report number if you have one.
DMCA: when you took the photo, you own it
If you took the picture yourself, a selfie or a mirror shot, you hold the copyright. That turns nudes removal into a copyright claim, and copyright claims get answered.
A DMCA notice is a short written statement: this is my work, it is at this URL, I did not authorise it, I swear under penalty of perjury that this is true, plus your contact details and signature. Sites that host user content have a designated agent for exactly this, usually linked in the footer as DMCA or Copyright. Google accepts DMCA notices for search results too. Hosts lose legal protection if they ignore a valid notice, so most comply within days.
The limits matter. If someone else took the photo, they own the copyright and you cannot file. Your notice will include your real name, and some sites forward notices to the uploader or publish them, so consider a trusted friend or a takedown service filing on your behalf. And a counter-notice from the uploader can put the content back until you sue, which is rare but possible. If you are also unsure whether the trade itself was lawful where you live, read is trading nudes legal before you put anything in writing.
Search the site name plus "DMCA" or "copyright agent". No agent listed? Look up the domain's WHOIS record to find the host and registrar, and file there instead. That is the next step.
When a site ignores you, go over its head
Some sites exist to host leaks and will never answer a report. They still rent servers and domain names from companies that will.
Run a WHOIS lookup on the domain. It shows the registrar, and a DNS or hosting lookup shows the hosting provider and often a CDN in front of it. Each of those companies has an abuse email or form, and each has terms forbidding non-consensual intimate content. Write to all of them with the URLs, a one-line description, and the fact that you are the person depicted. Hosts suspend sites; registrars can lock domains; CDNs can drop a site off their network, which usually kills it in practice.
Be factual and brief. Abuse teams read hundreds of these a day and respond fastest to clear, unemotional reports with exact URLs.
What to send
- Exact URLs, one per line
- "I am the person in these images and did not consent to their publication"
- Whether the site was reported directly and when
- Police report number if you have one
What not to send
- The images themselves
- Threats or legal bluster
- Your home address, unless the form requires it
Police and civil routes, and what to expect
Sharing intimate images without consent is a crime in most US states, the UK, Australia, Canada and much of the EU. The law exists. Getting it applied takes patience.
File a police report with your evidence folder. Some officers handle this well; some will shrug. Ask for a report number regardless, because it strengthens every platform appeal and host abuse report you file afterwards. In the US, a federal civil right of action also exists for non-consensual distribution of intimate images, alongside state laws, which means you can sue the person who shared them for damages, sometimes without needing their identity up front. Lawyers who specialise in this often offer a free first consultation, and some legal aid organisations take these cases.
Civil action can also force a platform to reveal who is behind an anonymous account. That is slow and costs money, so most people start with the free steps above and escalate only if the leak persists or the poster is someone they know.
None of this page is legal advice. Laws differ by country and state, and a lawyer in your jurisdiction is the only person who can tell you how they apply to you.
Dealing with re-uploads
Leaks come back. Plan for that so the second time is a routine, not a crisis.
Hashing helps most here, because a re-upload of the same file to a participating platform is blocked before you ever see it. Set up alerts for your name and usernames on Google, and run a reverse image search on a non-explicit crop of the image every few weeks. Keep a template of your platform report and host abuse email so a repeat takes ten minutes. Each time a new version appears, hash it too; the more versions in the database, the fewer get through.
If the same person keeps posting, that pattern is exactly what police and civil claims are built for. Log every instance in the same evidence folder with dates.
While you are rebuilding: going forward, block instead of blur, strip metadata, and watermark anything you trade. The safety guide covers all of it, and the censor tool strips metadata and blocks out faces in the browser.
Getting nudes taken down, common questions
What is the fastest way to get nudes taken down?
Save evidence first, then run the image through StopNCII.org if you are 18 or over. It hashes the photo on your own device and participating platforms block matches automatically. In parallel, file a non-consensual intimate imagery report on each platform where you found it and submit Google's removal request for explicit personal images so it drops out of search. Most people see the big copies gone within days.
Can I remove leaked nudes from the internet completely?
Usually not every copy, and anyone promising that is selling something. What you can realistically do is remove it from the major platforms, get it out of search results, and make it hard to re-upload. That covers where almost everyone would find it. Removing most copies is a real result, not a failure.
How do I report leaked nudes on social media?
Every major platform has a dedicated report reason for intimate images shared without consent, separate from generic nudity reports. Use that one. Report each post and each account, keep the confirmation emails or ticket numbers, and if a report is rejected, appeal it and say plainly that you are the person in the image and did not consent.
Does a DMCA takedown work for nudes?
Only if you own the copyright, which normally means you took the photo yourself, including a selfie or mirror shot. Then a DMCA notice to the site, its host, or Google is one of the most reliable removal tools there is, because hosts risk liability if they ignore it. If someone else took the photo, they hold the copyright and DMCA is not your route; use the non-consensual imagery process instead.
What if the site ignores my removal request?
Go one layer up. Look up the domain's hosting provider and file an abuse report with the host; then do the same with the domain registrar. Hosts and registrars have their own abuse policies and can suspend a site that refuses to act. Also report the URL to Google and Bing so it disappears from search even while the page still exists.
Should I go to the police over leaked nudes?
You can, and in many places it is a crime. Most US states, the UK, Australia, Canada and much of the EU have image-based abuse laws. Bring your evidence folder. Expect it to be slow and uneven: some officers take it seriously, some do not. A police report also helps with platform appeals and civil claims, so it is worth filing even if nothing comes of it directly.
What do I do if the pictures were taken when I was under 18?
Use NCMEC's Take It Down service at takeitdown.ncmec.org instead of StopNCII. It works the same way, hashing the image on your device, but is built for images of people under 18, including if you are an adult now. Platforms treat these reports with the highest priority and you can also report directly to NCMEC's CyberTipline.
Is it my fault my nudes leaked?
No. Sending a photo to one person is not consent for anyone else to see it. The fault sits entirely with the person who shared it. If you are struggling, the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative runs a crisis helpline and the UK Revenge Porn Helpline does the same. Talking to someone who deals with this every day helps more than most people expect.
That is the playbook
Evidence, hash, report, delist, DMCA, host abuse, law, and alerts for the repeats. Work it in order and most copies come down.
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