Google Business Profile

Fix wrong information on Google Maps with Suggest an edit

Open the listing on Google Maps or Search, select Suggest an edit, choose the detail that's wrong, correct it and select Submit. Google reviews every suggestion before anything changes.

6 steps

  1. Step 1: Sign in to your Google Account, then find the place on Google Maps or search its name on Google.
    1 min
  2. Step 2: Select Suggest an edit. On Search it sits under the place summary, or under More.
    1 min
  3. Step 3: Choose what's wrong: Place name, Category, Location, Hours, Phone number, Website or Place closed or not here.
    1 min
  4. Step 4: Enter the correct detail. If you only know it's wrong, select Don't know, but this is incorrect where offered.
    2 min
  5. Step 5: Optionally add a photo that backs up your change, such as the sign or posted hours, then select Submit.
    2 min
  6. Step 6: If you own the business, skip suggestions: sign in at business.google.com, select Edit profile, change the detail and Save.
    2 min
  7. Arrived: If Google accepts the suggestion, the listing updates on Maps and Search. Google says changes can take time to appear and gives no fixed timeline.

Checked 13 Nov 2026 · source: support.google.com

Who this route is for

Suggest an edit is Google’s public correction tool. Anyone signed in can use it on any place, which makes it the right tool when:

  • you haven’t claimed your own listing yet and something on it is wrong;
  • a listing that isn’t yours shows wrong details about you, such as your phone number on someone else’s place;
  • a closed business, a fake listing or a duplicate is getting in your customers’ way.

If you already own and manage the profile, use Edit profile in your Business Profile instead. That’s the direct route, and Google’s Maps help points owners there.

What you can change

Search and Maps offer the same main list: place name, category, location (address or pin), hours, phone number, website, and a Place closed or not here option. That last one opens choices like temporarily closed, permanently closed, doesn’t exist here, duplicate of another place, not open to the public, moved to a new location, and offensive, harmful, or misleading. In the Maps app you can also suggest changes to attributes and features, set to True, False or Unsure, where the feature is available in your region.

Why suggestions get turned down

Google reviews every edit. Its Maps help says that edits trying to significantly change a business may be rejected, because they can be fraudulent or a sign the listing should be removed. In practice that means:

  • One clear change at a time beats rewriting the whole listing in one go.
  • Evidence helps. A photo of your sign, your posted hours or your door can support the change.
  • Big changes like a new name need the right route. If a different business now occupies the spot, Google says to mark the old one permanently closed and add the new business as a missing place.

How long it takes

Google doesn’t give a number. Search help says all edits are reviewed so results may take some time to update; Maps help says changes may take time to appear and that Maps keeps you updated on the status of your edits.

When suggestions aren’t enough

If wrong details keep coming back, the lasting fix is to claim the listing. Verified owners can edit directly and are notified before certain user-suggested edits are published, with a window to accept or reject them. For fraudulent names, numbers or websites, Google’s business redressal complaint form is a stronger route than a single suggestion.

If it doesn't work

  • Your suggestion was rejected: Google says edits that try to significantly change a business may be rejected. Make smaller, provable changes one at a time.
  • The business moved or rebranded: mark the old one permanently closed and add the new business as a missing place, rather than renaming it.
  • You can't edit attributes like Wi-Fi or parking: attribute editing is only in certain countries and regions, and through the Maps app.
  • Someone keeps suggesting wrong info about your business: claim and verify your profile so you can review and reject edits.

Questions owners ask

Do I need to own the business to suggest an edit?

No. Anyone signed in to a Google Account can suggest changes to a place. Owners and managers should edit through their Business Profile instead, which is the direct route and doesn't depend on another review of a public suggestion.

Will my name show on the edit?

Google says photos you add to a suggestion are publicly available under your name. It doesn't say the text of an edit is shown publicly with your name. Use a plain photo of a sign or door if you add one.

How do I report a listing that's a scam or doesn't exist?

Choose Suggest an edit, then Place is closed or not here, and pick Doesn't exist here or Offensive, harmful, or misleading. For fraudulent names, phone numbers or websites, Google also has a separate business redressal complaint form.

Can I change a competitor's hours or category?

You can suggest corrections to anything that's wrong, but only with information you can stand behind. Google reviews every edit, rejects ones that try to significantly change a business, and treats misleading edits as possible fraud.

Sources

Checked 13 Nov 2026. When the platform changes its process we update this page and log it in What changed.

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