Does Deleting Hinge Cancel Your Subscription?

It depends on how you paid. If you subscribed through the App Store, your Apple ID or Google Play, deleting the app or your account does not cancel the subscription, so you have to cancel it there. If you paid with Hinge payment, which Stripe powers, deleting the app still cancels nothing. Deleting your account, though, cancels the plan immediately, and you lose whatever benefits were left, permanently.

For a plan billed by the App Store, your Apple ID or Google Play, nothing you do inside Hinge stops the billing.

Deleting the app does not cancel it. Deleting the account does not cancel it either. The subscription belongs to the store, so the store is where it ends. Cancel it there, and do it before you delete your Hinge account, while you still know exactly which plan you are cancelling.

This is the case that catches most men. They delete the account, assume the plan went with it, and find the charge still arriving on their statement long after they left.

Cancelling in the store stops the renewal. It does not touch your Hinge account, so if you want the account gone as well, that is a separate step inside the app. Take a screenshot of the cancellation screen while you are there, so you have proof if a charge ever turns up later.

Hinge payment, the option powered by Stripe, works differently.

Deleting the app still does nothing to it. The plan keeps running because the account keeps running. Deleting the account, though, cancels the subscription immediately. That sounds convenient, and in one sense it is: no store to visit.

The catch is the word immediately. Any time left on the plan disappears the moment the account closes, and Hinge says those remaining benefits are lost permanently, even if you open a new account later. Paid for three months and leaving after two? Delete now and the third month is gone.

If you are not sure how you paid, check your phone's app store first. On an iPhone, look at the subscriptions list for your Apple ID. On Android, look at your subscriptions in Google Play. If Hinge is listed there, the store bills you and the store is where you cancel.

If Hinge is not in either list and you have been paying, you most likely paid with Hinge payment, which means deleting the account is what ends the plan.

Whichever way you paid, the clean exit runs in the same order.

1. Work out how you pay.
2. If a store bills you, cancel the subscription in the store.
3. If you paid with Hinge payment and want the time you already paid for, turn off auto-renew and keep the account until the period is nearly over.
4. Check your chats and move anything worth keeping off the app.
5. Delete the account from Account Settings.
6. Remove the app from your phone.

Remember that subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is off at least 24 hours before the next billing period. If your renewal is close, deal with the billing today rather than tomorrow.

Deleting the account wipes your photos and your chat history, along with your interactions with other members, so every conversation ends there.

So read your chats before you delete. A woman worth seeing should not disappear because of a billing errand. a dating coach's sequence works well here. Get a casual agreement that you should grab a drink sometime, then ask for her number. He finds a conversation cools slightly when it leaves the app, so warm it back up on text with a message or two before you name the day.

Before you cancel, it is worth asking why you are leaving, because the answer changes what you should do next.

a dating coach's case for paying is that it gets you seen by more women, and she has no idea that you paid to be shown to her. His material adds that paid visibility pays off more as your photos get stronger. So if your plan produced very little, the plan was probably not the problem. More exposure for weak photos just means more women passing faster.

If you are leaving because you met someone, cancel cleanly and enjoy it. If you are leaving because nothing worked, change your first photo before you decide the app is the problem. A clear, well lit shot of your face, with nobody else in it, will tell you more about Hinge than another month of paying for the same set.