Can Google unblur my house later if I change my mind?

No — Google states that Street View blurring is permanent once applied. That's exactly why the request form makes you confirm the selection before submitting.

Do I need to own the house to request the blur?

The request is intended for residents — owners or tenants. Google may ask you to verify the address before applying the blur.

What about Apple Maps or Bing?

Both have their own report flows for imagery concerns — in Apple Maps it's "Report an Issue" from the Look Around view. The steps differ per service, but the principle is the same: you report the image, they apply the edit.

Is blurring the listing photos worth it if the house is on Street View anyway?

Yes. Street View shows a house; your listing photos connect it to a sale, a price, your schedule and often your name. The two together are far more revealing than either alone, and the listing photos are the half you control.

How to blur your house on Street View & in your photos

Two different problems, two different fixes

Google's Street View imagery is Google's to edit, so hiding your house there means asking Google — there's an official request flow, and it works. Your own photos are the opposite: nobody will blur them for you, but you can do it yourself in under a minute. Most people who search for this need both, because a house that's blurred on Street View is still perfectly visible in the listing photos posted last spring.

Blur your house on Google Street View

Google's process, per their own help documentation: open Google Maps in a desktop browser (the request can't be filed from the mobile app), search your address, and open the Street View image of your house. In the corner of the image, click "Report a problem" — it's small, but it's there. Under "Request blurring", choose "My home", then adjust the red box until it covers what you want blurred and submit with your email address.

Two things to know before you file it. Google states the blur is permanent — once applied, it can't be undone, including for future imagery, so be sure before you ask. And the request is meant for the people who live there: Google may ask for verification that it's your home, and processing can take a while, so don't expect the map to change the same day.

Blur your house in your own photos

The photos you control are the bigger exposure in practice: a for-sale listing, a garden photo with the house number in frame, a delivery picture with the street name on the curb. Drop the photo into the editor and drag a region over the number, the door, or the whole facade — whatever the photo doesn't need to show. Blur, pixelate or a solid block, then export.

House numbers deserve special attention because they're small, sharp and high-contrast — exactly what zooming is for. The same goes for street signs caught in the background and anything with your name near the door. If the photo is going on a marketplace or a social feed, assume someone will pinch-zoom every corner of it.

House photo with the street number blurred by Blurify — The number is the sharpest, most zoomable detail in most house photos — cover it generously.

Hide an address in a photo

The location your photo carries anyway

A photo of your house taken with your phone almost certainly has your home's GPS coordinates written into its EXIF metadata — blurring the house number while posting the coordinates defeats the point. Blurify strips EXIF and GPS from every export automatically, so the downloaded file carries neither the number in the pixels nor the location in the metadata.

Open the editor

How to blur your house — on Street View and in your own photos