Can You Transfer a POF Membership to a New Account?

No. A Plenty of Fish subscription is linked to the one account you bought it on. It does not transfer automatically, and it cannot be added to a new account, even with Restore Purchase. If you are moving to a new account, turn off the membership on the old one first, then upgrade the new one.

Restore Purchase sounds as if it should bring your upgrade across to a new account. It will not. POF links each subscription to a single account, and Restore Purchase cannot attach it to a different one.

So the upgrade stays with the account you bought it on. If that account is still active and still renewing, you are still paying for it, whether or not you ever open it again.

1. Turn off the membership on the old account, in the place you paid for it, at least 24 hours before it renews.
2. Set up the new account.
3. Upgrade the new account, if you still want an upgrade once it is running.

Doing it in this order is what keeps you from paying for two accounts at once.

The costly slip is opening a new account, upgrading it, and forgetting that the old membership is still set to renew. Then you are paying twice and using one.

Check where the old membership was bought. If it went through your Apple ID or Google Play, that is where you turn it off, not inside the new account. If you paid on POF.com, cancel it on the website from a computer. Not sure which? The receipt from the first charge came from Apple, Google or POF, and that is your answer.

If you can still get into the old account, you do not lose its paid time the moment you cancel. Turning off renewal leaves your access in place for the rest of the cycle you already paid for.

So there is no rush to jump. Keep using the old account until the term runs out. Answer the women who wrote to you, ask out anyone who was close to a plan, and get her number so the plan does not depend on either account. Then move to the new one with nothing left half-finished behind you.

It usually comes down to one of three reasons.

• They deleted the old account and changed their mind.
• They lost access to it, through an old email address or a forgotten login.
• They want a fresh start because results have been poor.

The first two are practical, and the steps above cover them. If you lost access, it is worth trying to get back in before you start again, because a new account starts from nothing. The third reason deserves a harder look before you spend money on it.

If you bring the same photos and the same writing across, a new account shows women the same page the old one did. If that page was not getting replies, the new account will not get them either, however clean it feels.

Picture a man with a dim main photo and a bio that just says "ask me". He opens a new account with the same page and a few weeks later has the same quiet inbox, minus every conversation he used to have. Nothing she could see had changed.

You also leave behind everything the old account held. A woman who was halfway to a date on the old account does not follow you to the new one.

So change what she sees, not the account it sits on:

• Put a different main photo first, clear and taken in daylight.
• Rewrite your bio so it says something only you would say.
• Rewrite your opener so it is short and asks her something easy.

All three can be done on the account you already have, and together they do more than a fresh start with the same page.

A new account is worth it when there is a real reason for it, like a login you cannot recover. It can also make sense once the page itself has genuinely changed, and you want women who passed on the old version to see the new one.

In that case, do it cleanly. Turn off the old membership where you paid for it, and use up its paid time first if you can. Then upgrade the new account only when the free version is already bringing you some results. A paid feature multiplies what you have, and nothing more, so give it something worth multiplying first.