How to Delete Your Tinder, Bumble and Hinge Accounts in 2026 (Step by Step)

You can delete a Tinder, Bumble or Hinge account in under a minute. What you cannot do is delete it instantly, cancel your subscription by deleting it, or reset your matches by starting over. Those three assumptions are where most guides go wrong, and each one has a real cost: a charge that keeps running, a conversation you cannot get back, or a new profile that performs exactly like the old one.

This guide does three things. It gives you the exact, current steps for each app, taken from the platforms' own help pages and checked on 27 October 2026. It separates deleting from cancelling, because those are two different actions in three different systems. And it tells you how long each company actually keeps your data, which is not "immediately" on any of them.

One boundary up front. These are consumer platforms with regional differences. The steps below match the English-language help centres at the time of writing, and the menus can move between app versions. Where a platform publishes a number, the number is quoted. Where this article draws a conclusion the platforms do not state, it is marked as an inference.

#Quick Answer: How to Delete Each Account

If you only remember one thing: deleting the account and cancelling the subscription are separate actions on all three platforms. Apple and Google bill you independently of the app, and none of the three can cancel a store subscription on your behalf. Do that part first, then delete.

#Before You Delete: Four Things to Do First

#Cancel the subscription before you touch the account

This is the single most common and most expensive mistake. Every one of the three platforms says plainly that deleting an account does not cancel an active subscription. If you pay through the App Store or Google Play, cancelling is a store action. If you pay the platform directly, it is an in-app or web action.

Cancelling first also protects your leverage. Once the account is gone, you lose the in-app billing screen and any purchase history attached to it, which makes a refund request harder to support.

#Download your data while you still can

Tinder states that after deletion you lose access to its data download tool. Hinge says the in-app export is only available while your profile is still active, so a closed account means going through support instead. Bumble accepts data requests through support.

Do this even if you do not want the archive. It takes a few minutes, it is free, and it is the only way to keep a record of conversations or matches you might later need.

#Save the conversations you actually care about

Matches and messages do not survive deletion on any of the three. If you have been talking to someone for weeks, ask for a phone number before you delete. Do not assume the chat will still be there when you come back, and do not assume the other person will be told what happened.

#Decide whether you need deletion or just a pause

If your goal is a break, all three apps have a reversible option that keeps your matches, your photos and your history. Deletion is for when you want the data gone, not for when you want the notifications to stop for a fortnight. The comparison is in the delete-or-pause section below.

#How to Delete Your Tinder Account

#Delete from the Tinder app

1. Sign in to the Tinder app.
2. Tap the profile icon.
3. Open Settings.
4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen.
5. Tap Delete Account.
6. Follow the confirmation prompts.

Tinder's help page describes the same path for the web version at tinder.com, which is useful if your phone is lost or the app will not open.

#Delete from a browser with Manage My Account

Tinder also runs a separate account portal at account.gotinder.com. Sign in with your Tinder credentials, tap Delete Account, and confirm. This route exists specifically for people who cannot complete the flow in the app, and it is the one to try when the app crashes at the confirmation step.

#What happens after you confirm

Your profile stops being visible to other users immediately. Tinder says your data is then deleted in line with its privacy policy, with one important exception: the company holds your profile data for 90 days as a "safety retention window". That window exists so Tinder can investigate harmful or illegal activity and so the restore feature has something to restore.

What is gone immediately, and permanently: your matches, your messages, your photos and any verification badge. Tinder states these cannot be restored even if you sign back up inside the 90 days.

#The 90-day restore window

If you deleted within the last 90 days, you can create an account with your previous credentials and recover some basic profile information such as your name, age and gender. After 90 days you start from scratch.

Two caveats matter. Tinder notes that the 90-day restore feature was being tested in select markets, with plans to expand, so it may not be available where you are. And Face Check works on a shorter clock: if you sign up with your previous credentials within 30 days, you will not need to verify again; after 30 days your verification data has been deleted and you will repeat the process.

#If you cannot log in to Tinder

Tinder's deletion flow requires an authenticated session. If you have lost access to the email or phone number on the account, contact Tinder support through its request form rather than creating a second account. Creating a duplicate while the first still exists can trigger the duplicate-account checks that Face Check is designed to run.

#How to Delete Your Bumble Account

#Delete from the Bumble app

1. Open the Bumble app.
2. Tap the profile icon.
3. Tap the gear icon to open Settings.
4. Scroll to the bottom and tap Delete account.
5. Choose your reason for leaving.
6. Confirm using the final on-screen prompt.

Bumble's help centre describes the last step as a final on-screen confirmation. One of Bumble's own profile-deletion guides, written for Bumble For Friends, asks you to type the word "delete" in lowercase before the confirm button activates, so the exact prompt can differ between Bumble's apps. Follow whatever the screen asks for. The typed confirmation is a guard against accidental taps, not an extra hoop to worry about.

#What Bumble asks you to confirm

Bumble asks for a reason and then a final confirmation. It does not offer a web deletion flow, so if you have already removed the app you will need to reinstall it or contact support.

One thing Bumble is unusually clear about: deleting the app, or simply going inactive, does not delete your profile. The account stays live and visible until you complete the steps above. If you have ever uninstalled Bumble thinking that was enough, the profile may still be there.

#The 28-day restore window

Once deleted, the account is no longer viewable in the app. For up to 28 days Bumble can restore it, which is intended for accidental deletions. After 28 days, Bumble begins deleting your personal information in line with its privacy policy.

Restoration goes through support rather than a self-serve button, so it is slower than Tinder's credential-based restore. If you deleted by mistake, contact Bumble support immediately and be ready to verify that you own the account.

#Requesting immediate erasure

If you want your data gone sooner than 28 days, Bumble lets you submit a Data Erasure Request to its team and skip the restore window. This is the right route when your reason for leaving is privacy, a safety concern, or a request under GDPR or a US state privacy law. The erasure request and the account deletion are separate submissions, so do both.

#If you cannot log in to Bumble

Bumble's support team can delete an account on your behalf, but it will verify your identity first to confirm you are the owner. Expect to provide the email or phone number on the account and possibly a government ID. This is slower, and it is the only legitimate route: no third-party service can delete an account you cannot access.

#How to Delete Your Hinge Account

#Delete from the Hinge app

1. Sign in to the Hinge app.
2. Tap your Photo Icon on the far right of the navigation bar.
3. Tap the Gear Icon to open Account Settings.
4. Scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account.
5. Follow the prompts to confirm.

That is the whole flow, and it takes less than a minute. Hinge states that deletion removes all your content, including photos, chat history and member interactions, in accordance with its privacy policy.

#Why there is no web option

Hinge publishes app-only deletion steps. There is no documented browser flow, unlike Tinder's account portal. If you have already deleted the app, Hinge asks you to contact its support team, who will help you close the account. Reinstalling the app is usually faster than waiting for a support reply.

#What Hinge keeps, and for how long

Hinge's privacy policy describes a safety retention window of three months following account closure, and up to two years following an account ban. During that period Hinge keeps data so it can investigate unlawful or harmful conduct. It also keeps transaction data for 10 years to meet tax and accounting obligations, and card information for the duration of a subscription plus any legal requirement.

So the honest answer to "is it deleted immediately" is no, and Hinge is more explicit about this than most. The profile disappears from view immediately; the underlying records follow a slower schedule.

#Hinge+ and HingeX: the one case where deleting cancels

Hinge splits billing into two systems, and they behave differently.

If you subscribed through the Apple App Store or Google Play, deleting your Hinge account does not cancel the subscription. You cancel it in the store. If you subscribed through Hinge payment, powered by Stripe, deleting the account cancels the subscription immediately and you lose access to any remaining paid time. Creating a new Hinge account during that original period will not restore the benefits; you would have to buy again.

That makes Hinge's direct billing the one case where you should think about timing. If you have three weeks of HingeX left and you delete today, you forfeit it. If you cancel the store subscription first and let the term run out, you keep what you paid for.

#If you cannot log in to Hinge

Hinge's support team handles account access problems and deletion requests when the app is unavailable. Use the request form and choose the account or data topic. As with Bumble, identity verification is part of the process.

#The Subscription Trap: Delete Does Not Mean Cancel

This is worth its own section because it is the mistake that costs money after people believe they have left.

The pattern is consistent: the store owns the billing, the app owns the account. Deleting the account removes your access. It does not remove the store's right to renew, because the store was never told the account was gone.

#How to cancel on an iPhone

Open Settings, tap your name at the top, tap Subscriptions, select the app, then tap Cancel Subscription. This covers Tinder, Bumble and Hinge in one place. Apple's subscription manager is the authoritative source, not the app's own billing screen.

#How to cancel on Android

Open the Google Play app, tap your profile icon, go to Payments and subscriptions, then Subscriptions, select the app and tap Cancel subscription. Google Play's subscription page also works in a browser if the phone is unavailable.

#How to cancel a direct purchase

Tinder: sign in at tinder.com, tap the profile icon, choose Manage Payment Account, find the subscription and cancel. Bumble: contact support for card or other payment methods, since Bumble does not publish a single self-serve cancellation path for every billing type. Hinge: a direct Hinge payment subscription cancels when the account is deleted, with the forfeiture described above.

#Check that it worked

A cancellation confirmation is not the same as a stopped charge. Check for a confirmation email, then look at your store subscription list again a day later. If the subscription still appears as active, cancel it again or contact the store, because the dating app cannot fix a store billing record.

#Delete, Pause, Hide or Snooze?

Deleting is the right answer less often than people think. If what you want is quiet, not erasure, each platform has a reversible option that keeps your matches and your profile.

#Tinder: hide your profile

Tinder calls it hiding, and it works by turning Discovery off. Your profile stops being shown as a recommendation to new people, and you cannot view recommendations or like anyone new. Two details matter: people you have already liked may still see your profile and match with you, and you can keep chatting with existing matches.

To do it, sign in, tap the profile icon, open Settings, scroll to Enable Discovery and turn the toggle off.

#Bumble: Snooze Mode

Bumble's Snooze Mode hides your profile without deleting anything. You choose 24 hours, 72 hours, a week, or indefinite, and you can attach an Away Status such as "I'm traveling", "I'm focused on work", "I'm on a digital detox" or "I'm prioritizing me" so existing matches know why you are quiet.

Two catches. Any matches without an active chat expire while you are snoozed. And Snooze Mode does not pause your subscription, so if you are stepping away for a month, cancel the subscription separately or you will pay for a feature you are not using.

#Hinge: Pause

Hinge's Pause toggle lives in the gear menu. It stops you being shown to new people while letting you keep chatting with existing matches. Likes you sent before pausing still arrive, and the other person can still match with you.

One detail worth knowing: Hinge says Top Photo continues testing and reordering your photos while your account is paused. That is not a reason to avoid pausing, but it does mean the profile is not completely frozen.

#When deleting is the better choice

Delete when you want the data gone rather than the notifications quiet. That covers a privacy or safety concern, a relationship that has ended, a break you expect to last months, or a request under data protection law. Delete also when you are truly finished with the app and do not want a dormant profile sitting on a server.

#What Actually Gets Deleted, and When

"Deleted" is not one event. It is a sequence, and the sequence differs by platform.

#Tinder: 90 days, then purge

Tinder keeps your profile data for 90 days as a safety retention window. After that it purges the data according to Section 9 of its privacy policy. Verification data is on a faster schedule: Tinder states that it is deleted within 30 days of account closure.

Matches, messages, photos and the verification badge are not part of the retention promise in any useful sense. Tinder says they cannot be restored, which means they are functionally gone from the moment you confirm, even while other records remain for the safety window.

#Bumble: 28 days, then erasure begins

Bumble keeps the account recoverable for up to 28 days. After 28 days it begins deleting personal information in line with its privacy policy. As with any company, some records are held longer for legal or regulatory reasons, which Bumble acknowledges in its data deletion article.

If you want a faster timeline, submit a data erasure request. That is a separate action from deletion and it is the one that explicitly invokes your privacy rights.

#Hinge: three months, or two years after a ban

Hinge's safety retention window is three months after account closure, and up to two years after an account ban. Transaction data is kept for 10 years for tax and accounting compliance, and card information for the duration of the subscription plus any legal requirement.

This is a longer tail than most people expect, and it is published rather than hidden. The practical point is that deleting your profile does not delete every record attached to your payment history.

#What survives longer than the profile

Across all three platforms, records can outlive the profile for four reasons: tax and accounting law, fraud and safety investigations, legal claims, and regulatory obligations. A deletion request does not override those, and a company that claims otherwise is either simplifying or misleading you.

#What is never recoverable

Matches, messages, photos and verification status are the four things every platform treats as gone. If any of them matters, export first. The list is short, which makes it easy to act on.

#Does Deleting Your Account Reset the Algorithm?

No. This is the second persistent myth, and it is worth being precise about why.

#There is no score to reset

Tinder retired its Elo-based ranking in March 2019 and has said since that it does not use the system those old point tables describe. There is no hidden number out of 1400, no plus 25 for a right swipe, and no penalty counter you can clear by starting over. We covered the full history, with sources, in our guide to how dating app algorithms read your photos.

What the apps actually learn from is behaviour: who you like, who likes you, how quickly you swipe, how often you open the app, and what your photos contain. That history is attached to your account, and deleting it does not reset a score. It deletes the evidence.

#What you actually lose

You lose your match history, your conversation signals, your verification badge, and any reputation the account had built for being active and responsive. You also lose the convenience of Face Check, unless you return within Tinder's 30-day window.

On Hinge, you lose your prompt answers and the specific likes you sent, which are the main inputs its recommender uses. On Bumble, you lose your match history and your For You feed history.

#Why a new account is not a fresh start

Tinder's terms allow one account at a time, and Face Check is explicitly designed to detect the same face across multiple accounts. Phone numbers, email addresses, device identifiers and payment instruments all reconnect a "new" profile to the old person. If the platform wanted to treat you as a blank slate, it has several ways not to.

The honest version: a new account with the same photos, the same bio and the same habits will produce the same results, minus the history that was helping you. If your matches dropped because your photo set is weak or you stopped opening the app, the fix is the photo set and the habit. Our shadowban test and photo audit walks through how to tell a real visibility problem from a weak profile.

#What Happens to Your Matches and Messages

#On your side

They are deleted with the account. Every platform describes matches and conversations as part of the content removed on deletion, and none of them offers a way to retrieve a chat afterwards.

#On their side

The conversation disappears for the other person too, because the profile it was attached to no longer exists. They are not sent an explanation. From their perspective, the match simply stops being there. This is worth remembering before you delete mid-conversation: the silence is not neutral, and it is not obvious to the other person what happened.

#The exception worth planning for

There is no platform-level exception, but there is a human one. If you want to keep talking to someone, exchange numbers or another contact method before you delete. Do it while the chat is still open, not after, because there is no recovery path once you confirm.

#The Real Advantages of Deleting Your Account

The benefits are real, but they are quieter than the marketing around "deleting dating apps" suggests. Here is the honest list.

#Less of your data in circulation

A deleted profile stops being shown, stops generating new behavioural data, and moves into a deletion schedule. That is a genuine reduction in exposure: fewer photos on a server, fewer location records, fewer conversation logs. It is not zero, because retention windows and legal obligations exist, but it is a meaningful decrease.

#Money stops leaking

If you cancel properly, deletion ends a subscription that may have been renewing unnoticed. This is the most concrete benefit and the easiest to measure: check your store subscriptions once, and the number is right there. The trap is that deleting without cancelling produces the opposite outcome, paying for an app you no longer use.

#Attention comes back

Dating apps are designed to be opened. Removing the app removes the prompt, and the prompt is most of the habit. This is not a moral argument about apps being bad; it is a practical observation that a thing you cannot open is a thing you stop checking.

#A clearer decision about dating

Deleting forces the question that pausing lets you avoid: do you want to be doing this at all? Sometimes the answer is yes, just not on this app, or not with this profile. A clean break makes that answer easier to see than a dormant account you keep meaning to revisit.

#The honest limits

Deleting an account does not by itself improve your mental health, your dating life or your self-image. The research on dating app use and wellbeing is mixed, and this article is not going to pretend a deletion button is a treatment. What deletion does is remove a specific input and a specific cost. Whether that helps depends on what you put in its place.

It also does not erase you from the internet. Photos you sent to matches, screenshots other people took, and messages on other platforms are outside the app's control. Deletion is a boundary around one service, not a reset of your digital footprint.

#When You Should Not Delete

#You just need a break

Use the pause or hide option. You keep your matches, your photos and your history, and you can come back in a week without rebuilding anything. Deleting to get a quiet weekend is using a permanent tool for a temporary problem.

#You are mid-conversation

Save the contact first. At minimum, tell the person you are leaving the app and give them another way to reach you. Deleting without that step ends the conversation for both of you, silently.

#You are trying to reset your matches

It does not work, and it costs you the history that was helping. Fix the inputs instead: a stronger first photo, a more varied set, and more consistent activity. Our dating app photo guide covers the platform-specific specs, and the six-photo profile guide covers the set as a whole.

#You are waiting on a support case or an appeal

Deleting can remove the account record a support team needs to investigate. If you are appealing a ban or chasing a billing issue, resolve it first. A deleted account is much harder to argue about.

#Account Deletion, Privacy Law and Your Rights

The in-app delete button is the fastest route, but it is not the only one. Data protection law gives you a separate right to erasure, and it applies even when the app's flow is awkward.

#GDPR and UK GDPR

If you are in the EU or the UK, you have the right to erasure under Article 17. The platform must respond within one month, extendable by two months for complex requests. It can refuse or limit the request where it has a legal obligation to keep data, which is why tax records and fraud investigations survive.

You can also complain to your national data protection authority if a request is ignored. That is a real remedy, not a symbolic one, and mentioning it in a follow-up email tends to produce a response.

#California and other US state laws

The CCPA and CPRA give California residents a right to delete personal information, with verification and some exceptions. Several other states have similar laws. The mechanism is usually a privacy request form or an email to the company's privacy contact, not the in-app delete button.

#What to put in a deletion request

Keep it short and specific:

• The email address or phone number on the account
• A clear statement that you are requesting erasure of your personal data
• The account username or profile URL if you have it
• A request for written confirmation when the deletion is complete
• A request for an explanation of any data retained and the legal basis

Send it from the email address on the account if possible. That makes verification faster and reduces the chance of a back-and-forth.

#A note on app store data

Apple and Google hold their own records of your purchases, and the dating app cannot delete those. If your concern is billing privacy rather than profile visibility, you need a separate request to the store. This is the same separation that makes the subscription trap possible.

#Security Checklist After Deleting

Deleting the account is the main event. These are the loose ends that are easy to forget.

#Revoke social logins

If you signed in with Apple, Google or Facebook, revoke the app's access in that provider's security settings. Deleting the dating profile does not always remove the authorization grant, and an unused grant is an unnecessary door.

#Remove saved payment methods

Check the payment methods stored in the app and in your store account. A card saved for a subscription you no longer have is still a card on file.

#Unlink Instagram

Tinder and Hinge both allow an Instagram link on the profile. If you connected one, disconnect it before deleting, or at least check that the link is gone afterwards. The same applies to Spotify integrations where they exist.

#Clear local copies

Photos you uploaded, screenshots of conversations, and downloaded data exports live on your device. If the reason for deleting is privacy, clean those up too. Your phone's photo library is outside the app's deletion scope.

#Check for duplicate accounts

If you ever created a second profile, it is still there. Tinder's terms allow one account at a time, and duplicates can trigger verification checks. Search your email for sign-up confirmations from all three apps and close anything you find.

#Turn off marketing email

Account deletion does not always stop marketing lists immediately, because the email record may be retained for suppression purposes. Unsubscribe separately if the emails bother you.

#The Bottom Line

Deleting a dating app account is simple; deleting it cleanly takes four steps, not one. Cancel the subscription in the store or in the app's billing screen. Export anything you want to keep. Delete the account through the app. Then check, a day later, that the subscription is actually gone.

The timeline is longer than the marketing implies. Tinder holds profile data for 90 days, Bumble for 28, and Hinge for three months, with longer tails for transaction records. None of that is hidden; it is in the privacy policies, and it is worth knowing before you expect the data to vanish.

And the reset myth deserves a final sentence. There is no score to clear. What you can change is what you bring back: a better photo set, a clearer idea of what you want, and a habit of showing up when other people are there. That is a real reset, and it does not require a new account.

If you are rebuilding a profile rather than deleting one, the Nothron Neural Headshot Generator can produce a consistent set from your own photos, and the pricing page explains what each package includes.

#Frequently Asked Questions

#Does deleting your Tinder account delete your messages?

Yes. Tinder states that deleting your account removes your matches, messages and photos, and that these cannot be restored even if you recreate your profile within the 90-day window. If a conversation matters, save the person's number or export your data before you confirm deletion, because neither is recoverable afterwards.

#Can you get a deleted Tinder account back?

Partly, and only within 90 days. Tinder says you can recreate your profile with your previous credentials and restore some information such as your name, age and gender. Matches, messages, photos and any verification badge are gone permanently. Tinder also notes that the 90-day restore feature was being tested in select markets, so availability depends on where you are.

#Does deleting Bumble cancel your subscription?

No. Bumble explicitly warns that subscriptions may not cancel automatically and tells you to cancel first. If you subscribed through the Apple App Store or Google Play, the billing relationship is with the store, not Bumble, so deleting the account leaves the renewal running until you cancel it in your store settings.

#How long does Bumble keep your data after deletion?

Bumble keeps the account recoverable for up to 28 days. After that, it begins deleting your personal information in line with its privacy policy. You can skip the 28-day period by submitting a data erasure request to Bumble support, which is useful if your reason for leaving is privacy rather than a change of mind.

#Can you delete a Hinge account on the website?

Hinge publishes app-only deletion steps: open the app, tap your photo icon, open Account Settings, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account. There is no documented web deletion flow. If you have already uninstalled the app, Hinge asks you to contact its support team, who will help you close the account.

#Does deleting a dating app account reset your matches or algorithm?

No. There is no hidden score to reset, and starting over mainly discards the history the system had built about who you like and who likes you. Tinder's Face Check is also designed to detect the same face across accounts, and its terms allow only one account at a time. If the underlying problem is a weak photo set or long gaps in activity, a new profile will reproduce it.

#What happens to your matches when you delete your account?

The match and the conversation disappear for both people, because the profile they were attached to no longer exists. The person you were talking to does not get a notification explaining why. If you want to stay in contact, exchange phone numbers before you delete rather than assuming the chat will remain visible.

#Is it better to delete or pause a dating app account?

Pause if you want a break, and delete if you want your data gone. All three apps offer a temporary option: Tinder lets you turn Discovery off, Bumble has Snooze Mode from 24 hours to indefinitely, and Hinge has a Pause toggle. Each one hides you from new people while keeping your matches and profile. None of them pauses your subscription.

#Do you need to delete the app after deleting your account?

No, but deleting the account is the step that matters, not removing the icon. All three platforms state that uninstalling the app does not delete the account. Once deletion is confirmed, removing the app is optional housekeeping; cancel any store subscription separately, because uninstalling does not stop billing either.

#Methodology and Sources

This article is built on the platforms' own help centres and privacy policies, read in full and checked on 27 October 2026. Where a step or a timeline is quoted, it comes from the company that operates the app. Where this article draws a conclusion the platforms do not state, such as what the other person sees when a match disappears, the conclusion is described as an inference.

No search volume, traffic or user-count figures are claimed here. No original survey was conducted.

Primary sources, all checked 27 October 2026:

• Tinder — Delete your Tinder account. Updated 10 September 2026. Source for the app and Manage My Account paths, the 90-day safety retention window, the subscription warning and the data download limitation.
• Tinder — Restore your profile. Updated 22 October 2026. Source for the 90-day restore, the list of what cannot be restored, and the 30-day Face Check window.
• Tinder — Hide your Tinder profile. Source for turning Discovery off and what remains visible.
• Tinder — Cancel your subscription. Source for the Apple, Google Play and Tinder.com cancellation paths.
• Tinder — Manage My Account. The separate account portal referenced in Tinder's deletion flow.
• Bumble — Deleting your account. Updated 10 September 2026. Source for the in-app path, the 28-day restore window and the subscription warning.
• Bumble — Taking a break from online dating. Updated 1 September 2026. Source for Snooze Mode durations, Away Status and the expiry of inactive matches.
• Bumble — Deleting your data. Source for the data erasure request that skips the 28-day window.
• Bumble — Requesting your data. Updated 23 October 2026. Source for the data request route.
• Bumble — Canceling subscriptions. Source for store versus direct billing.
• Hinge — How do I delete my account?. Updated 6 July 2026. Source for the in-app path, the subscription split and the app-only flow.
• Hinge — Pausing. Updated 23 December 2025. Source for the Pause toggle, existing chats, pre-pause likes and Top Photo behaviour.
• Hinge — Privacy Policy, section 9. Source for the three-month safety retention window, the two-year post-ban window and the 10-year transaction record retention.
• Hinge — How do I request a copy of my personal data?. Updated 4 May 2026. Source for the unavailability of the in-app export after account closure.

Related guides:

• How Dating App Algorithms Read Your Photos — what the platforms confirm about photo signals, and the full Elo history.
• Dating App Shadowban Test and Photo Audit — how to tell a real visibility problem from a weak profile.
• Dating App Photo Guide 2026 — platform specs, crops and composition.

Limitations stated in this article: platform menus, retention periods and restore availability change, and some features are regional. The steps here reflect the English-language help centres on 27 October 2026. Tinder's 90-day restore was still described as being tested in select markets. This article is general information, not legal advice; for a dispute about your data, consult a qualified professional in your jurisdiction.

This is general information about consumer app account management, not legal or platform-policy advice. Product behaviour, policies and market availability change frequently. Check the current help pages for the platform and country you use.

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