Can a Friend Remove a Friend's Take They Wrote About You?

Yes. The friend who wrote the take can ask Hinge Support to delete it. Hinge says it will let you know about the request, and it will honor your friend's deletion even if you object.

Your friend does not need your permission, and they do not go through you. They contact Hinge Support and ask for the take to be deleted. Hinge then tells you the request came in.

What Hinge does not give you is a veto. Its help page says it will honor the friend's deletion even if you object. Once the request is made, the take is coming down.

This is separate from your own controls. You can hide or delete any take yourself whenever you want. The friend's route exists for the case where they want their words gone and you have not taken them down.

A take is your friend's words, and sometimes their voice or their face, sitting on a dating app they may not even use. Hinge does not require an account to write one, so the writer may have no other way to manage it. Letting them pull it back is fair.

Think about it from their side. They wrote something kind about you as a favor, often in a couple of minutes, and then it sat on an app full of strangers. If they could never take it back, far fewer people would agree to write one at all.

It protects you in a quieter way as well. Friends write more freely when they know they are not signing something permanent.

Most requests have nothing to do with you. A friend starts a new job and would rather a joke about them was not floating around online. A cousin who recorded a video decides she does not like how she looks in it. Someone who wrote a take in a silly mood thinks better of it a month later.

Sometimes it is about you. If the two of you fell out, the friend may not want to vouch for you in public anymore, and that is their right.

Do not argue. Hinge will delete the take anyway, and pushing back only makes things awkward with someone you know in real life.

If you are close, a short message is enough. "Saw you asked Hinge to take your take down. No problem at all." If you are curious why, ask once, lightly, and accept whatever they tell you.

What you should not do is repost their words some other way, quote them in your own answers, or put them on the spot about it in a group chat. The whole point of the request is that they no longer want their words on your page.

A missing take is easy to replace. Send your link to another friend or two and review what comes back.

Look at what the removed take was doing for you. If it was the funny one, ask the friend who always makes the group laugh. If it was the one that vouched for your character, ask someone who has known you for years.

Give the new writer a nudge toward something specific. "Tell them about the time we got lost hiking" gets you a far better take than "write something nice about me".

Pick people who will be happy to see their words up for as long as you are on Hinge. That makes a repeat of this much less likely.

Takes are worth the small hassle. A friend's line gives a woman a view of you that your own answers cannot, and it gives her something easy to comment on when she likes you.

The best takes are specific, warm and a little teasing. "He will argue with you about pizza toppings for an hour and then let you pick" tells her more than "He's a really good guy". Ask friends for a story or a habit, not a compliment, and the takes you get will be the kind that start conversations.

And if one friend wants out, let them go gracefully. A take is a favor, and favors can be taken back. Thank them for writing it, find a new one, and get back to talking to the women who liked what they read.