Someone used a nudify app on your photo. Here is how to get it taken down.

Do this even if you are certain you want the content gone immediately. It takes fifteen minutes and it is the part you cannot redo later.

• Copy the full URL of every page, post and image — not the shortened share link.
• Take full-page screenshots showing the visible URL, the date and the account that posted.
• Record usernames, profile URLs, display names, and the exact timestamps.
• Save any messages, threats or demands for money in the same place.
• Note which search queries surface the content, if any.

Do not contact the person who posted it. It rarely leads to removal, it often escalates, and it can compromise a later investigation. If money is being demanded, do not pay — payment almost always produces a second demand.

This is the single most effective step available to you, and almost nobody knows it exists. Two free services generate a mathematical fingerprint — a hash — of an image directly on your own device. The picture itself never leaves your phone or computer, and no human reviews it.

• If you were 18 or over in the image: StopNCII.org, run by the UK charity SWGfL.
• If you were under 18 in the image: Take It Down, run by NCMEC.

The hash is shared with participating platforms, which then match it against everything uploaded to them and block or remove what matches. Partners include Google Search, Meta, TikTok, Snap, Reddit, Bumble, OnlyFans, Pornhub, and Microsoft's Bing and consumer services. You get a case number and a dashboard; matches typically take three to five days to appear.

It works on AI-generated images too, and it works pre-emptively — you can hash a fake before it has been posted anywhere, or hash a real private image you are being threatened with. What it cannot do is reach sites outside the partner network.

Since 19 May 2026, platforms serving the United States are under a hard deadline. Under section 3 of the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a covered platform that receives a valid request must remove the content — and make reasonable efforts to remove known identical copies — within 48 hours. The law explicitly covers digital forgeries, meaning AI-generated fakes, not only real photographs.

A valid request needs four elements: your signature (electronic is fine), enough information to locate the content, a short good-faith statement that it was not consensual, and your contact details.

• Use the platform's dedicated non-consensual intimate imagery form where one exists — not the generic "report post" button.
• Keep the confirmation or ticket number for every request.
• If the platform misses the deadline or has no removal process at all, file a complaint at takeitdown.ftc.gov. The FTC is actively enforcing, with penalties above $53,000 per violation.
• In India, intermediaries must remove non-consensual or morphed intimate imagery within 24 hours of a complaint under the IT Rules 2021.

Removing a page from Google does not delete it from the web, but it cuts off the route almost everyone would use to find it — which in practice is most of the damage.

• Use Google's removal request for personal sexual content and select the option stating the content is fake or falsely depicts you. There is a specific category for AI-generated imagery.
• You can submit up to 1,000 content URLs and 1,000 search-result URLs, plus the search terms that return them.
• Turn on Results about you in your Google account so new pages surface to you automatically instead of being found by someone else first.
• Bing and Microsoft services already act on validated StopNCII hashes, so step two covers a large part of this.

Creating and sharing this material is now a specific criminal offence in a growing number of countries, listed in the next section. Reporting also matters beyond your own case: these crimes are massively under-reported, which keeps them under-resourced.

Just as important, do not do this alone. Specialist organisations handle removals on victims' behalf every day, for free, and know which forms actually get results. Several also offer psychological support, which is not a footnote — the distress caused by intimate image abuse is severe and well documented.

If the person harassing you has access to your accounts or devices, set up a separate email address on a service that does not require a phone number before you start reporting, and use it for all correspondence. Options include OnionMail and other providers that allow anonymous registration.