How Do You Cancel a Tinder Gold Trial?

Cancel it in the same place you signed up, because the cancel button sits with whoever bills you. The order number on your receipt shows which place that is: MK means Apple, GPA means Google Play, and TNDR means Tinder.com or a card paid inside the Android app. Deleting the app does not cancel anything, and a Tinder subscription renews automatically until you cancel it.

Tinder's cancellation steps depend on where the purchase happened, so start with the receipt. Search your email for the confirmation, or open the purchase history in the store you think you used. The order number starts with one of three prefixes.

• MK: the purchase was made on iPhone, and Apple bills it.
• GPA: the purchase was made through Google Play, and Google bills it.
• TNDR: the purchase was made on Tinder.com, or by credit card in the Android app, and Tinder bills it.

Whether the offer you took was a trial, a promotional stretch or a plain paid month, the rule is the same. It keeps going until it is canceled, so the receipt and the subscription screen are what show you the renewal date. Check that date before you do anything else.

Open Settings on the phone, tap your name at the top, then tap Subscriptions. Pick the Tinder subscription and tap Cancel Subscription. You are doing this inside Apple's settings, not inside Tinder, because Apple is the one holding the billing.

Open the Google Play app and tap your icon at the top right. Go to Payments & Subscriptions, then Subscriptions. Select the Tinder subscription and tap Cancel subscription. As with Apple, the cancel button lives in the store, not in the dating app.

Log in at tinder.com, tap your icon, and choose Manage Payment Account. Find the subscription in the list and tap Cancel Subscription. If your order number began with TNDR because you paid by card inside the Android app, this website route is the one that applies.

This is the step men skip. Uninstalling Tinder, or deleting your account in a bad mood after a dry week, does not stop the billing. The store or website that holds the subscription keeps it running until you cancel there.

Subscriptions also do not move between platforms. If you started on an old phone and have since switched devices, you have to cancel from the old one, using the same Apple or Google account that bought it. Look for the subscription under that account before you assume it is gone.

After you cancel, open the same subscription screen again. It should no longer list a renewal date, or it should say the subscription ends on a set day. Take a screenshot of that screen. If a charge shows up afterward anyway, you have proof of what the screen said and when.

For a charge on a purchase made through Apple or Google, the refund request goes to them. For a TNDR purchase, Tinder's Help Center is the place to write, and the order number belongs in the message.

The cleaner way to handle a trial is to settle the question in the first week, not on the last morning. Tinder Gold gives you everything in Tinder Plus, plus weekly Super Likes, one Boost a month and the feature that shows you who has already liked you.

So the test is simple. Before you pay, write down your usual numbers on the free app: how many women match with you in a week, how many answer your first message, how many agree to meet. Then run the same routine on Gold and write down the same three numbers.

a dating coach pushes back on the idea that a man should never pay for an app. He says a paid feature is probably worth it in most cases, as long as it is not extremely expensive. He also says to test everything and tweak what you change. His view is that a paid feature multiplies what you already have. A small number gets bigger, and a zero stays zero.

If Gold lifts your matches and the number of women who actually reply, keep it for another cycle. If the numbers look the same as before, you have your answer, and cancelling was the right call. The money is better spent on better pictures and a better opening message, which is where most of a man's results come from anyway.