{"id":62777,"date":"2026-10-15T14:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.repscan.com\/?p=62777"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:49:41","slug":"can-turn-off-google-reviews-business-profile-about-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.repscan.com\/en\/blog\/can-turn-off-google-reviews-business-profile-about-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you turn off Google reviews on your Business Profile? What to do about negative ones"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no option in Google Business Profile (the current name for what was long known as Google My Business) to turn off, hide, or pause your business reviews. Not in the admin panel, not through official support. What you can do is actively manage what comes in: flag reviews that break Google’s rules with the help of our remove Google reviews<\/a> service, respond to negative ones to limit their damage, and build up a volume of positive ratings that puts any occasional bad score in perspective.<\/p>\n

Why Google won’t let you turn off reviews on your Business Profile<\/h2>\n

Reviews on Google are not a service you offer your customers. They are public information that Google collects from its own users to help other people make decisions. From that perspective, they are not yours to control, just as you don’t get to decide what someone writes about you on a forum.<\/p>\n

Google makes this clear in its reporting policy: you can flag a review, but only those that break its content guidelines will come down<\/strong>. Simply disagreeing with it, or finding that it lowers your average score, is not grounds for action. Google does not intervene in disputes between businesses and customers.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean you have no options. It means you need to distinguish between what actually exists and what many business owners wish existed.<\/p>\n

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