How Do You Log Out of Tinder?

Open the app, tap the profile icon, go to Settings, then scroll to the bottom and tap Logout. Tinder also suggests logging out and back in as a fix when all of your matches disappear or your matches' photos will not load. So the button is worth knowing even if you are not going anywhere.

1. Open Tinder.
2. Tap the profile icon.
3. Go to Settings.
4. Scroll down and tap Logout.

That is all there is to it. You are signed out of the app on that phone, and signing back in puts you in the same account you left.

Logging out takes a few seconds. Getting back in depends on knowing how you signed up in the first place, and plenty of men only find out they have forgotten after they have tapped the button.

So look before you leave. If your login relies on a code sent to your phone number, make sure that number is on the phone in your hand. If you signed up through another account, make sure you can still get into that account. A minute of checking now saves an evening of trying to recover access later.

Most men who search for this are not trying to quit. Something on the screen looks broken, and they want to reset it.

Tinder backs that instinct. Its help page on problems with matches suggests logging out and back in when all of your matches have disappeared, or when your matches' photos will not load. Log out, give it a moment, and sign back in the usual way.

Rule out the simple things first, though. Check that your phone has a signal and that the app is up to date. If both are fine, the logout is the next thing to try.

If that does not bring things back, Tinder's help centre has more to try. Do not start deleting things, and do not make a fresh account to start over. A glitch on your screen is not a reason to throw away every conversation you have going.

Logging out and deleting your account are two different things. Logging out is meant to be undone: you sign back in and carry on where you left off.

Deleting is a separate choice, and a much bigger one. If what you really want is to leave Tinder for good, make that choice on purpose, on a calm day, rather than as a side effect of trying to fix a loading problem.

Some men log out because they want a break. That is a perfectly good reason. Just deal with the women you are talking to before you go.

A conversation on the apps does not wait for you. Leave a good one untouched for two weeks and she will have moved on, to other men and other plans. One coach who reviews men's conversations says he can barely remember messaging a woman for long without either getting her on a date or getting her on the phone. That is the standard to apply before a break.

So go through your chats first. If a woman is replying warmly and asking questions back, suggest a specific day, or offer to swap numbers. A woman who has your number can still reach you while the app is closed. The conversations that were going nowhere can stay where they are.

If you are selling a phone, trading it in, or handing it down to someone, log out of Tinder on it first.

Then sign in on the new phone before the old one leaves your hands, so you know the login works. If your login depends on a text code, the phone number has to move to the new phone with you. Sorting that out in advance takes five minutes. Sorting it out afterwards can take much longer.

Take a quick look around before you assume everything is fine. Open your chats and make sure your conversations are there and look the way you left them.

If something looks wrong, such as messages you did not send or changes you did not make, treat it as a security problem rather than a glitch. Do not share any login code with anyone who asks for it, and contact Tinder through its help centre. Otherwise, you are back, and the women you were talking to are exactly where you left them.