Platforms
Face search for photos from specific platforms
People usually arrive with a photo from a specific app and a specific worry. These pages explain, platform by platform, which content is publicly crawlable and therefore findable, how to take a usable screenshot, what results typically look like, and where each platform's own impersonation report form lives.
One rule applies everywhere: FaceSearch only sees publicly accessible pages. Private profiles, stories, direct messages and anything behind a login are not indexed, by FaceSearch or by any face search engine. The pages below say exactly where that line falls on each platform, so you know what a result means and what a missing result does not mean.
- InstagramWhich Instagram photos are on the public web, how to take a usable face out of a post, and how to report an impersonation account.
- FacebookProfile pictures are always public, most posts are not. What that means for a face search, and how to report an impersonating profile.
- TinderTinder profiles are never on the public web, but the photos on them often are. How to check one, and what a match or a miss means.
- Dating appsThe same five-step check for Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, OkCupid and Match, with each app's verification badge and report route.
- BumbleBumble profiles are never public, but the photos on them often are. How to check one, what Bumble's own verification proves, and how to report.
- HingeHinge profiles are not public, but the photos usually are. How to check a Hinge photo, what Selfie Verification proves, and how to report impersonation.
- TikTokPublic TikTok profiles and video pages are on the open web. What a face search finds from a TikTok screenshot, and how to report an account that uses your face.
- X (Twitter)Public X profiles and posts are crawlable, protected ones are not. What a face search finds from an X screenshot, and how to report an impersonating account.
- LinkedInPublic LinkedIn profiles are indexed, so a stolen headshot can be traced. How to check a profile photo, protect your own, and report a fake.
- RedditPublic posts and profiles are on the open web, so a face search finds Reddit often. How to search, what Karma Decay adds, and how to report a post.
- YouTubeThumbnails, avatars and video pages are public and matchable; the video stream is not. YouTube's own privacy complaint and likeness tools, and how to report.
- Telegram and WhatsAppChats and profile photos are not on the public web. What a face search can still do with a messaging-app photo, and how to report scams on each app.