How to remove your listing from Whitepages

Whitepages is a people-search site. Its data policy says it collects and licenses directory and public record data from third parties, including name, current and former address, phone number, possible aliases, possible relatives and associates, date of birth, email address and property records. Its Help Center says it aggregates and publishes publicly available contact and property information, and that if a listing is not on Whitepages, the information is either unavailable or has been taken off its websites.

The opt-out form at whitepages.com/suppression-requests is a five-step form. The first step asks you to copy and paste the URL of your profile, which is the web address shown in your browser when the listing is open. The Help Center says the URL ends with a short reference number, usually 11 characters long, in this format: whitepages.com/name/Example-A-Person/Seattle-WA/Abcd12345ef. Later steps ask for a reason and a phone number. The phone number is used to verify that you are connected to the listing: Whitepages calls it and asks for a code. Whitepages says the number is collected to verify the request and will not be resold or used on its site.

You do not need a Whitepages account, and the published steps do not ask for identity documents or an email address. One thing is not available: Whitepages says it is currently not possible to edit an individual listing, so a listing with a wrong address cannot be corrected, only suppressed.

This guide describes Whitepages' suppression page and Help Center as published on 16 October 2026. Companies change their forms, so check the page itself if a step looks different. UltoPulto is pre-launch and has not yet processed live requests through Whitepages' form; the steps below are the ones Whitepages publishes.

1. 1.Search for yourself on Whitepages with your first and last name, city and state. Try former names and past cities, because each can produce a separate listing.
2. 2.Open each result that is you by clicking View Details. Whitepages suggests confirming the listing is yours by checking the phone number and address it shows.
3. 3.Copy the URL from the browser's address bar.
4. 4.Go to whitepages.com/suppression-requests, paste the URL into the field and click Next.
5. 5.A confirmation page shows the listing's contact details. Check them, then click Remove Me.
6. 6.Choose a reason for the request. Whitepages says the reason does not affect the request and is used only to improve its product. Click Next.
7. 7.Enter a phone number you can answer now, review the agreement, and click Call Now to Verify.
8. 8.A four-digit code appears on screen. Answer the call and enter the code when prompted.
9. 9.If it worked, the page updates and says Whitepages is processing the removal. Note the date and the URL you submitted, then repeat from step 2 for any other listing.

If something goes wrong, the Help Center says to use the blue Request Help button to open a ticket with its Customer Care team. The published steps do not give a time by which the listing comes down. The only timeframe Whitepages states is for search engines: it says third-party search engines may show information cached from its sites, and that it can take up to 30 days in some cases for those cached results to clear. A practical check is to open the URL you submitted a few days later, and search your name on Whitepages again.

Whitepages says it can only act on the information in the services it provides, and that it does not have the ability to hide your information in databases it does not control, such as public records. It also points out that it is not the only company publishing contact information online, and recommends searching for other websites that may carry your details. Its data policy sends anyone who wants a listing taken off to the Help Center article that this guide follows.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) describes the same limits for people-search sites in general. Opting out does not delete anything from government public records, your details may still appear in reports about relatives, neighbours or associates, and if the information in your public records changes, it can be offered for sale again. The FTC says most people-search sites let you opt out, and that you can do this yourself for free, one site at a time.

Whitepages is one site among many, and the same details usually sit on several. The data broker checklist lists the other sites that commonly carry them, and the address removal guide covers Google's own removal tool for search results that show your address.

Whitepages' Help Center gives a separate route for people who are submitting a request under the Daniel Anderl Security and Privacy Act or a similar law. You open a ticket on its privacy request form, choose the option to have your information deleted, state your state of residence, and put the URL of your listing and the listings of family members in the description. Whitepages says an agent follows up within 48 hours of submission. This is the only route in its Help Center that covers family members' listings in one request.

Whitepages' data policy says residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia have rights over their personal information, including the right to opt out of the sale of it, and refers California residents to a separate California privacy notice. The policy itself does not describe listing removal under those laws; it points to the Help Center article instead.

California residents have a second route that does not depend on Whitepages. The state's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) is free and sends one deletion request to every registered data broker. You file with your name, date of birth and ZIP code. Brokers have been required to process requests since 1 August 2026, a status can take up to 90 days to appear, and brokers must re-check for new matching data at least every 45 days. The state's guidance says brokers are not required to delete publicly available data, data covered by a legal exemption, or data you gave a business directly, so a DROP request is a complement to the Whitepages opt-out, not a replacement. The California deletion guide explains the process.