Does Your Tinder Subscription Transfer From iPhone to Android?

No. Tinder states that subscriptions do not transfer between platforms. If you move from an iPhone to an Android phone, you have to cancel the subscription on your old device, and Tinder suggests subscribing again on the new one. The same applies if you are moving from Android to an iPhone.

A Tinder subscription bought in the iPhone app is a payment arrangement with Apple. Apple took the money, and Apple renews it. A subscription bought through the Google Play Store is the same arrangement with Google.

Neither store can hand a subscription to the other. So when you change platforms, you still log in to the same Tinder account, but the plan stays with the store that sold it. It goes on renewing there until you cancel it.

That is the part men miss. They set up the new phone, log in, notice the paid features are gone, and buy the plan again. Meanwhile the old store is still billing them for the first one.

Do the switch in this order and you will only ever have one plan running.

1. Cancel on the old phone first. Do it while the old phone is still set up and signed in to its store account.
2. Check that the cancel went through. Open the subscription again and make sure it no longer says it will renew.
3. Decide when to buy on the new phone. Tinder's Terms say a cancelled plan keeps its benefits until the end of the period you paid for. If you buy straight away, the two plans overlap until the old one runs out. If you wait, you only ever pay for one at a time.
4. Subscribe on the new platform. Buy inside the Tinder app on the new phone, so the plan belongs to the new store from the start.

Tinder's own advice points the same way. Its help page says using and managing a subscription is easiest if you subscribe on the mobile platform you are actually using.

Resetting or selling the old phone cancels nothing. Tinder's help page says uninstalling or deleting the app will not cancel your subscription, and a wiped phone is the same thing on a larger scale.

The plan belongs to the store account you paid with, not to the handset. If your order number starts with MK, Apple bills you, and Tinder points iPhone billing questions to Apple Support. If it starts with GPA, Google Play bills you, and Tinder points those to Google Play Support. Cancel with whichever one it is, even if the phone you bought on is long gone.

Changing phones gives you a natural gap between plans, and it is worth using before you pay again.

Give the new phone a week or two on the free account and change nothing else. Count two things: new matches, and conversations that went past the first few lines. Then compare that with the weeks when you were paying.

a dating coach's view is that paid features multiply what an account already gets. Paying makes a working account work better. It does very little for an account women pass on, because the reason they pass is on the screen in front of them. If the free weeks look almost the same as the paid ones, the plan was not doing much for you. If they look clearly worse, you have your answer, and buying again on the new phone is money well spent.

The plan stays behind. Your habits come with you, so bring the good ones and leave the rest.

Use the move to clear out what you have been putting off. Swap the lead photo you have been meaning to replace. Drop the opener you send to every woman. Answer the matches you left sitting. If the new phone has a better camera, ask a friend to take a few pictures of you outside in daylight. A sharp, recent shot of your face does more for you than any tier Tinder sells.

Bring your standards across as well. Liking every woman in your feed so the new phone feels busy only buries the few you actually wanted to talk to. Like the women you would happily take for a drink, and give those conversations your full attention.

Then, if you do buy the plan again, buy it once, on the phone in your pocket, and put the renewal date in your calendar.