Someone posted your intimate images. Here is how you fight back.

First, this is not your fault

If you are here because private images of you turned up somewhere you never agreed to, take a breath. What happened is not something you brought on yourself, and it is not a weight you have to carry alone. The blame sits entirely with the person who shared them; everything on this page exists to hand some of the control back to you.

This page has one narrow, honest job: it helps you find where your own face appears on the public internet, so you can locate copies published without your consent and begin getting them removed. It is only for searching for yourself. We will repeat that further down, because here it matters more than on any other page we run.

Try the free tools first

Before you pay anyone — us included — spend ten minutes with tools that cost nothing. Often they are enough, and we would rather you find your answer there than pay for a search you did not need.

Take the clearest copy of the image you already have, or a clear photo of your face, and drop it into these. A reverse image search finds the exact file where it was re-posted; a face search, further down, finds the same face in a different crop or a different photo.

• Google Images (images.google.com) — click the camera icon and upload. Best at finding the same file republished on another site.
• Google Lens (lens.google.com) — reads the face and objects in the picture itself, not the filename, and often surfaces pages Images misses.
• Yandex reverse image (yandex.com/images) — the same camera icon. It is unusually strong on faces and on corners of the web the others skip, and always worth a second try.

What our face search can and cannot reach

The free tools hunt for a specific file. Our face search does something different: you upload a clear photo of your own face, and we look for that same face across public, indexed pages — a different crop, a screenshot, a re-upload with the metadata stripped out. It reads the geometry of the face rather than the file, which is why it can catch copies a reverse-image search cannot.

What comes back is a list of public pages where a closely matching face appears, each with a direct link and a similarity score. That score means two images look alike — it is a lead for you to judge, not proof of identity. Open each link and decide for yourself whether it is you.

Here is the honest limit, and for this topic it is a large one. Intimate images are often dumped on closed, paywalled, or adult sites that block search engines entirely. Those pages are usually not indexed, so neither we nor any free tool can see inside them. A clean result is genuinely good news, but it is not the whole story: it means nothing was found on the open web, not that nothing exists anywhere.

Document everything before you act

The urge to make it disappear this second is completely understandable. But the moment before you report anything is when you build the record that makes reports, platform appeals, and any legal step actually work. Do this first.

• Screenshot each page in full — the image, the surrounding page, the URL bar with the address visible, and the date. Save the raw link as text too, not only as a screenshot.
• Note where and when you found it, and any username, handle, or account attached to it.
• Do not download the images themselves unless a lawyer or the police ask you to — the links and screenshots are enough to act on, and re-downloading is distressing and rarely necessary.
• Keep everything in one folder. A calm, complete record is worth far more later than a frantic one assembled after the pages are already gone.

Getting it taken down

Almost every mainstream platform now bans intimate images shared without consent and has a dedicated report route for it — separate from the ordinary 'report post', and usually faster. Look for the words 'non-consensual intimate imagery' or 'private images' in the help or safety centre of the site you found, and use that form rather than the generic one.

There is also a tool built specifically for this, and it is free: StopNCII.org. It creates a digital fingerprint — a hash — of your image on your own device, so the picture itself never leaves your phone or computer. Partner platforms then use that hash to detect and block matching uploads before they appear, including images that have not been posted yet but that you fear will be. It works proactively, which the search on this page cannot.

• Report through the platform's dedicated non-consensual imagery form, not the generic one, and reference each URL you documented.
• Create a case at StopNCII.org to block re-uploads across partner platforms — the hash is made on your device, so your image stays with you.
• For a search engine result, you can also ask the search engine directly to remove pages containing non-consensual intimate images, which cuts off how people find them.

Legal options — and one firm line

In most places, sharing someone's intimate images without consent is against the law, and you can report it. Keep your documentation, and consider talking to a lawyer or a specialist support organisation about your options where you live — many offer free, confidential help and can deal with platforms and courts on your behalf.

Depending on where you are, the routes may include a police report, a data-protection or privacy complaint, and a formal takedown demand. You do not have to know which one is right before you start; a support line or lawyer can point you to the correct door.

One firm line, because it defines this page: this is only ever for finding your own face and your own images. It is never a way to look for someone else's private pictures, to track down a person who chose to stay anonymous, and never anything involving a minor. If the person in the image is under 18, do not search — contact the police or a child-protection hotline, which can act in ways no search can.

And if the weight of this is heavy right now, reach out — to a trusted person, or to a helpline for image-based abuse in your country. You did nothing wrong by being photographed or by trusting someone. Support exists, and using it is a strength.