How Do You Delete Your Hinge Account?

Sign in to Hinge and tap your photo icon, then the gear icon, which opens Account Settings. Scroll to the bottom, tap Delete Account and follow the prompts to confirm. That closes the account for good, so it is worth a few minutes of checking before you tap.

Here is the whole process, in Hinge's order.

1. Open Hinge and sign in.
2. Tap your photo icon.
3. Tap the gear icon. This opens Account Settings.
4. Scroll all the way to the bottom.
5. Tap Delete Account.
6. Follow the prompts on screen to confirm.

That is the whole process. The last prompt is your final chance to change your mind, so read it before you tap.

Before anything else, clear up the most common mistake. Hinge is clear that uninstalling the app does not delete your account.

Dragging the icon off your home screen changes your phone, not your account. The account, your photos and your answers stay exactly where they were, and your page is still there if you reinstall. If you want out of Hinge, the only way is the Delete Account button inside the app.

If you pay for Hinge+ or HingeX, deal with that before you delete, in the place your plan is billed.

Do not assume that closing the account ends the plan. Whether it does depends on how you paid, and for some billing routes it does not. The safe order is simple: check how you pay, cancel the plan where it is billed, confirm it is cancelled, and only then delete the account. Men who do it the other way round sometimes discover the charge months later, attached to an account they can no longer open.

Deleting is permanent. Under its Privacy Policy, Hinge erases what the account held: your photos, your chat history and your interactions with other members. Every conversation on it disappears.

So look through your chats first. If a woman you were talking to is worth seeing, do not let the account take her with it. Borrow a dating coach's order of operations. First get a loose yes to meeting at some point, say a drink one evening. Then trade numbers and carry on by text. He finds the switch to text cools things slightly, so a few light messages there come before you name the day.

For the conversations that were going nowhere, one friendly line to close them is kinder than vanishing, and it takes seconds.

Save anything you want to keep, too. If a photo on your page only exists there, make sure you still have the original on your phone before the account goes.

If you have already uninstalled Hinge, you have two ways to finish the job. Reinstall it, sign in the same way you did before, and follow the steps above. Or contact Hinge's support team. Hinge says that when you have already deleted the app, its support team will help you close the account.

Plenty of men who search for how to delete Hinge do not really want the account gone. They want a rest.

Hinge's Pause setting does that without the loss. It stops you being shown to new people while your matches and chats stay open, and you can switch it off whenever you like. If there is any chance you will want Hinge again in the next few months, pause instead. A pause is easy to undo. A deletion is not.

Delete when you are genuinely finished: you are in a relationship, you are done with the app for good, or you want your photos and chats gone from Hinge entirely.

The other reason men delete is to rebuild from scratch, hoping a fresh account will do better than the old one.

It rarely works the way they hope. A new account goes up with the same photos, gets the same response, and the only thing that changed is that every match and every conversation is gone. a dating coach's material also cautions that Hinge notices when the same man keeps deleting and remaking his account. Doing it to chase the extra attention a fresh account gets can end in a ban.

If results were the reason, the account was never the problem. Change what women see instead. Put a clear, well lit photo of your face first, cut the two weakest pictures, and rewrite any answer that could belong to anyone. In My experience, the photos settle most of the outcome on any dating app. Fix those, give it a few weeks, and you may find you no longer want to delete anything at all.