How to Delete Your Happn Account

Cancel your subscription first, in the store where you bought it, because deleting the account does not cancel it. Then tap your photo at the top right, scroll to Settings, open My Data and choose Delete my account. happn asks you to select your reasons for leaving, then you tap Confirm deletion. happn says the action is permanent, so there is no undoing it once it is done.

This step comes first for a reason. Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription, and deleting the app from your phone does not either. The payment runs through Apple or Google, not through happn, and it carries on until you stop it there.

On an iPhone, open Settings, tap your Apple ID, then Subscriptions, then happn, and cancel. On Android, open Google Play, tap your profile icon, then Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions, then happn, and cancel.

Do this before you delete. Once the account is gone, it is easy to forget that the charge is still running.

If you are not sure which store you used, check both. The subscription only appears in the one that billed you, under the account that paid.

1. Tap your photo at the top right of the screen.
2. Scroll down to Settings.
3. Open My Data.
4. Choose Delete my account.
5. Select your reasons for leaving.
6. Tap Confirm deletion.

happn describes deletion as permanent, and it means it. Every Crush goes. Every conversation goes. Every person you crossed paths with goes. If you ever come back, you start from an empty account.

A conversation you were halfway through ends the moment you confirm, and there is nothing to recover later. If one of those chats matters to you, get her number before you delete, not after.

happn has a gentler option. Pausing your account hides you from other people's feeds and keeps your messages and Crushes saved until you log back in. Logging in switches the account back on by itself.

If there is any chance you will want happn again, pause instead of deleting. You can delete later at any point. You cannot undelete.

Delete when you are sure. You have met someone and it is going well. You have decided happn does not suit where you live or how you date. Or you simply want your data gone. Those are all good reasons, and deleting is the right tool for them.

A lot of men delete a dating app in a frustrated moment. The week was slow, a conversation went nowhere, and deleting feels like taking control.

If that is you, stop for a second before you tap Confirm. The app is rarely what went wrong. What is usually wrong is the photos, the first lines, or how long the man waits before suggesting a plan. All of that comes with him to the next app, and the next app gives him the same slow weeks.

a dating coach has spent more than twenty years testing photos, pages and apps, and his biggest lesson is to keep experimenting rather than give up. He changes one thing, checks what happens, and keeps what works. He even throws out old versions of his page when they go stale and starts fresh. That kind of reset is a plan. Deleting in a bad mood is not.

If you are leaving happn for another app, bring something better with you.

Take a few new photos in daylight, in clothes you actually wear, in places you actually go. Put the clearest shot of your face first. Write a line or two about yourself that sounds like a person talking. And decide now that you will suggest a plan within a handful of messages, instead of letting chats drift for a week.

Then test as you go. Change one thing, give it a week or two, and see whether more women answer and more chats turn into plans. Keep what works and drop what does not. That habit is what a dating coach credits for two decades of results on the apps, and it works on any of them.

Do those things and the next app will go better. Skip them and it will look a lot like the one you just deleted.