You can now report entire profiles for abuse on Google Maps

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We know that you all in the Local Guides community care deeply about keeping the information on Google Maps accurate. With that, we’re happy to share that we’re launching a new feature that will allow you to report entire profiles for abuse on both Android and iOS.

This new functionality will enable you to let the Google Maps team know when someone is contributing false information, uploading offensive content, or taking other abusive actions that violate Google Maps user contributed content policy. Previously, you were able to flag certain contributions individually, but you can now report the users themselves in an effort to stop those who regularly contribute abusive content.

We encourage you to flag the profiles of users who you see posting incorrect information on Google Maps. Here’s the step-by-step breakdown detailing how to use this new feature:

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  • Click on the user name in the list of Reviews/Photos they contributed or the Question/Answer they posted to get to their profile page.
  • Click on the three dot icon.
  • Choose ‘Report’ on iOS or ‘Report profile’ on Android.

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We hope this new process will allow you to quickly and easily report abuse on Google Maps. Please note, this is the best way to escalate inappropriate profiles in Maps; we’ll no longer be accepting reports via Connect. Thank you to all of you for helping us to keep Google Maps free of abuse and false information.

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Wow. Thank you so much for this much required feature, @Rodrigo_P . I always use flag option but this feature will be really helpful. I am going to go through shops and businesses in Google Maps to review and report profiles violating Google Maps policies.

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It’s great news for us. thanks a lot, @Rodrigo_P and your team to take a great initiative.

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very good option @Rodrigo_P thank you very much for the nice update.

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good decision and much appreciated on this thanks @Rodrigo_P

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Thanks… @Rodrigo_P

I know this already.

And also report some profiles also.

This is very important and needed feature.

What I look for this,

Now that’s completed by google Maps.

Still Needed some useful features for reporting , I gave some ideas on this topic.

I hope, that works and implement on one day.

Thanks to google Maps.

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That’s really great news, because now its much easy to report or flag a person’s profile who violates the rules of the Local guides program. Thanks for sharing such a great news .

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@Rodrigo_P Its good news. Thanks for the announcement. I hope flagging spammer profiles will be easier and it will be implemented faster now.

Happy Guiding!

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It’s a much-needed feature, Will be very helpful. Thanks to the team :heart:

Thanks for letting us, dear @Rodrigo_P :heart:

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@Rodrigo_P thanks for sharing this post. It might be help google. Local guides now more neat & clean.

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This is really great. With the increase in number of spammers.

Job Weldon to all the Team behind this great app.

Thanks @Rodrigo_P for sharing with us

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Wow, good features! This more practical than just reporting reviews or photos.

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@Rodrigo_P Thanks for introducing this feature there is a lot of false information about local business around, many of them put wrong reviews for wrong business and this will be of great help to notify google team

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Thank you so much for sharing this feature update with us @Rodrigo_P

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Namaskar…

** @Rodrigo_P **

Thanks for Sharing its useful for fake account or something fishy Activities…

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Very very useful feature! @Rodrigo_P

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that will be great feature thank you @Rodrigo_P for informing us regarding that thank you Local guides team for this

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Thank you very much @Rodrigo_P for the new updates, this is indeed very useful to make Maps even better and more accurate.

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This is very important and needed feature.

Thanks for sharing such a great news @Rodrigo_P

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That’s a good way to report profiles who are adding fake reviews related to businesses @Rodrigo_P