Yes. Bumble says your subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the renewal date. If you cancel in time, you keep your paid features until the end of the period you already paid for, and the next charge does not happen. The plan renews whether you are still swiping or not, so the date is worth knowing.

The 24-hour rule

The renewal date on your plan is not the real deadline. Bumble's rule is that you have to cancel at least 24 hours before it. Leave it until the renewal day itself and you are probably already inside that window.

So treat the day before the renewal date as the last safe day. Better still, plan to decide a few days earlier than that. Put a reminder in your calendar with the date written in, and the rule will never catch you out.

You can find the date wherever you paid. Apple shows it in the Subscriptions screen of your phone's Settings. Google Play shows it under Payments & subscriptions. If you paid Bumble directly, it is under Subscription details in the app.

How to cancel, by where you paid

Bumble says how you cancel depends on how you signed up and how you paid.

If you subscribed through the Apple App Store, open Settings on your phone and tap your name. Then tap Subscriptions, select Bumble, and tap Cancel Subscription.

If you subscribed through Google Play, open the Play Store and tap your icon. Go to Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions, select Bumble, and tap Cancel Subscription.

If you paid with PayPal, a card or Apple Pay directly through Bumble, open the app and tap the profile icon. Select Subscription details, tap Manage your subscription, and cancel there.

If you cannot get into Bumble to cancel, its Support team can help.

What happens after you cancel

Cancelling stops the next renewal. It does not cut you off. Bumble says you keep your paid perks until the end of your subscription date, so there is no reason to wait until the last minute. You can cancel the moment you decide and still use the rest of the period you paid for.

Refunds are a separate process. If you are asking for one, Bumble suggests cancelling future renewals separately as well. It also notes that if Apple or Google Play approves a refund, you may lose access straight away.

Deleting your account may not stop it

This one catches people out. If you subscribed through the Apple App Store, Bumble says deleting your account will not automatically cancel your subscription. You have to cancel it in the App Store as well.

So if you are leaving the app for good, cancel the subscription first. Delete the account after that.

Decide on matches and messages, not habit

Auto-renewal is convenient when the plan is working and expensive when it is not. The way to tell the difference is to look at your results a few days before the date.

Compare your weeks on the plan with your weeks before it. Are you getting more matches with women you actually wanted? Are more chats getting past a line or two? Has any of it turned into a date?

If yes, let it renew and keep going. If the plan changed very little, the thing holding you back is probably what women see when they get to you. It is fine to let the plan lapse while you work on that for free.

If you keep it, use what you pay for

A plan that renews while you ignore half of it is the most expensive way to use Bumble. If you decide to keep it, put the features to work.

Use your weekly SuperSwipes and Spotlights before they reset, since unused ones do not carry over. Start a Spotlight on an evening when you are home and free to reply to what comes in. If you are on Premium, check the Liked You queue before you start swiping, so your attention goes first to women who have already said yes. Then answer every match the same day, and suggest a specific plan once a chat has had a few good exchanges.

What a renewal should have to earn

A subscription puts you in front of more people and saves you some sorting time. It does not change your photos, your written answers or what you send her. So a renewal should have to earn its place, by showing you something the free version could not.

If you cannot point to what the last period gave you, that is your answer. You can always subscribe again later, once the parts that decide the result are in better shape.