What you found, and what it actually means
If you searched your own face and found results, what you have learned is that your face is indexed and that at least one public page carries a photograph good enough to match. You have not learned that anyone has looked you up, and the results themselves are not evidence that anything has been done with them.
That is worth saying because the first reaction is usually alarm, and alarm tends to produce the wrong first move — deleting accounts, pulling down profiles, changing photos everywhere at once. None of that removes the indexed results, and some of it makes the next steps harder.
Removal and deletion are different words here
Removal from a face-search engine means you stop appearing in its results. Deletion would mean the underlying photograph is gone from the site that published it. The opt-out processes offered by these engines do the first. Only the site hosting an image can do the second, and whether they will depends entirely on who they are.
So the realistic target is this: break the link between a photograph of your face and a searchable identity, and accept that individual photographs on individual websites are a separate, slower, often unwinnable negotiation.
The order that saves you the most work
Start with removal from the engines, because that is the step with a multi-week clock on it and the step that does the most per unit of effort. File with PimEyes, then FaceCheck.ID, then any other engine that surfaced you.
Only then deal with the supply side: which public photograph of you is the strongest reference, whether it needs to stay published, and what the replacement should be. Doing this first feels productive and achieves nothing, because the old image is already indexed.
What to expect on timing
PimEyes confirms opt-out requests by email, typically in two to six weeks. Other engines run their own timelines. Nothing about this is instant, and there is no escalation path that makes it instant.
During that window your results are still live. If the situation is urgent for safety reasons rather than privacy preference, the engine opt-out is necessary but not sufficient, and it is worth treating the hosting sites as a parallel track rather than a later one.