Hide a user from the Directory

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If a user doesn't want to share their profile information in your organization's Directory , you can hide their profile. When you hide a user in Directory:

• Their profile information won't autocomplete when other users enter addresses in services like Gmail and Calendar
• Their profile information won't appear in other users' Contacts Manager
• Their profile information won't appear in Cloud Search results

If your organization has Workspace guests enabled, you can also hide guests' profiles by following the steps later on this page.

Hide a user's contact information

1. In the Google Admin console, go to Menu DirectoryUsers .

   Go to Users

   Requires having the appropriate User management privilege . Without the correct privilege, you won't see all the controls needed to complete these steps.

   Note:For guests, go to Menu Directory Guests

2. In the Userslist, find the user. If you need help, go to Find a user account .

3. Click the user's name to open their account page.

4. Click User information.

5. Click Directory sharingTurn off.

6. Click Done.

Changes can take up to 24 hours but typically happen more quickly. Learn more

To let other users find a user or guest's information in the Directory, click Directory sharingTurn on. Click Doneto save your changes.

Hide many users with a batch request

If you have many users or guests that you want to hide from Directory, you can use the Directory API to do a bulk update.

Create a batch request to set includeInGlobalAddressList to falsefor the people you want to hide.

Related topics

• Hide a group from the Groups directory