How to Cancel Your Raya Membership

Raya charges your membership to your Apple account, so you cancel it there. Turn off auto-renewal in your Apple account settings, which Raya's App Store listing calls your iTunes account settings. You can do it at any time. The cancellation takes effect at the end of your current period, and Raya says you can keep using the app until your billing cycle ends.

Because Apple takes the payment, the renewal belongs to your Apple account rather than to Raya's own settings. The listing says auto-renewal can be turned off there whenever you like.

That switch is the cancellation. You open your Apple account settings, find Raya, and turn off the renewal.

Do it the same day you decide. The men who mean to cancel "next week" are the ones who find another period on their card statement.

Raya's listing says the renewal is charged within the final day before your current period ends. So the date that matters is the renewal date, and the evening before it is too late to feel comfortable.

Look up your renewal date now. Put a reminder in your phone two or three days ahead of it. If you have not decided to stay by then, switch the renewal off. You lose nothing by doing it early, as the next section explains.

Turning off the renewal does not cut you off. The listing says a cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period, and Raya's About page adds that you can keep using Raya until the end of your billing cycle.

You paid for the period, and you get all of it. So there is no reason to wait until the last minute to make up your mind. Cancel early, and keep using Raya exactly as before until the period runs out.

The renewal is controlled from your Apple account, so removing Raya from your phone does not switch it off.

It is an easy trap. A man deletes the app, forgets about it, and meets the charge again later. If you want Raya gone completely, turn off the renewal first, then delete your account and the app in that order.

Think about one more thing before you let your membership run out. Raya's About page says that if your membership has expired, you may be asked to reapply, because renewal and readmission are not automatic.

Getting in took an application and a wait. If there is a real chance you will want Raya again in a few months, weigh that against the fee. If you just want a quiet stretch, Raya's terms describe a hide feature and a paused status that keep your conversations and stop new members from seeing you, which may suit you better than walking away.

The weeks between cancelling and the end of your period are already paid for, so make them count.

Go through your open conversations and move the good ones forward. If a woman has been warm, suggest a plan now instead of letting the chat run out with your membership. If you have been trading messages for a week, ask for her number, so the conversation no longer depends on an app you are leaving.

a dating coach's order for time on the apps puts exactly this first. The women closest to a date get his attention before anything else, then the conversations still going, then first messages to anyone new. A cancelled membership is a good reason to run that order properly.

Cancel for a reason you can name.

a dating coach's rule for any paid dating feature is not to pay blindly and not to refuse on principle either. Test it, look at what it changed, and drop it if the difference is not real. Apply that here. Count the dates Raya produced over your last period, not the likes and not the conversations.

If the answer is none, cancelling is sensible, and your time is better spent on an app that works for you. If Raya gave you one or two good dates, the fee may have been the cheapest part of those evenings.