Google Provides “Take away Business Profile” Possibility To Business Profile Settings

Google recently added a new option to the Google Business Profile settings to remove that business profile. It is named “Removed Business Profile” and will allow you to mark a business as closed or permanently remove the business.

I think I saw this last week but I had no idea it was new, but Claudia Ton Twitter said it is new. She said “Once hit you are able to permanently remove all content added by you, and all managers. Kind of dangerous!” yep

Here are screenshots:

Step two:

And if you do it, it is supposedly gone forever – I am not testing this:

No its gone! Google support says no way to retrieve it.

— ClaudiaT (@ClaudiaTomina) December 15, 2022

From what I understand there is no way to reverse it. Only owners can remove the business.

— ClaudiaT (@ClaudiaTomina) December 15, 2022

So be careful and maybe try never to use this and oh, do not give permission to employees to do this…

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Update: Google added another option, which makes this a bit easier to manage:

This is what I am seeing today! pic.twitter.com/UQLIZ6N2v1

— ClaudiaT (@ClaudiaTomina) December 15, 2022