Feeld names a short list of reasons a profile disappears, and you can usually tell which one applies in a few minutes. Either you hid it, you paused it, a paid feature lapsed, Feeld banned or removed the account, or someone else's profile vanished because they left or blocked you. Most of these can be reversed. A few cannot, so it pays to know which kind you have before you do anything.
First, work out which kind of gone
"Gone" means two different things, and the fixes have nothing in common.
The first kind is your own profile. You open the app and the profile is missing, or you suspect nobody can see it. The second kind is somebody else's profile. A woman you were talking to has disappeared from your list.
If it is yours, the cause is either a setting you chose, a setting that changed on its own, or a decision Feeld made. If it is hers, you are almost certainly not looking at a glitch, and the last section covers that.
Settings that hide you on purpose
Three settings can make your profile vanish from other members, and men trip over all three.
Hide profile. Feeld says a profile with Hide profile switched on is removed from other members' Discover. People you are already connected with can still see it and chat with you. So you can still be talking to someone while strangers cannot find you at all, which is easy to forget you turned on.
A paused account. When you pause, Feeld says you are not shown in Discover, your connections cannot view your profile or message you, and you can reactivate by logging in within 12 months. A pause is a stronger version of hiding. It silences the whole account, including the people you already know.
Incognito that lapsed. Feeld says that if your Majestic membership lapses or is cancelled while Incognito is on, your profile becomes hidden. That one catches men by surprise. You cancel a subscription to stop paying, and the side effect is that nobody can see you. If you let Majestic run out and your profile went quiet the same week, start here.
Open your settings and check all three before you assume anything worse.
When Feeld removed you
Some causes are Feeld's decision, and you cannot flip a switch to undo them.
Feeld says it bans accounts that are repeatedly reported. It also says members can appeal a ban through Support, which usually replies in a day or two. If you think the reports were unfair, appeal once, say plainly what you think happened, and then wait for the reply instead of filing a second ticket.
Feeld also says that in locations requiring age verification, an account is banned until the member verifies. If your profile stopped working after you changed where you are, look for a verification prompt before you assume anything else.
The last cause is simple neglect. Feeld says it terminates accounts that have been inactive for one year and deletes their data. If you left the app for a year, a missing profile is not a mystery. And a deletion of your data means the photos and text you wrote are gone with it.
When it is her profile that is gone
If you cannot find another member, Feeld says they may have terminated their account or blocked you, and that this cannot be undone.
Both are decisions she made. Neither is a bug, and neither is something you can repair by searching harder, signing out, or sending a support ticket. The hard part is that you will never know which of the two it was.
The useful move is to let it go. Spend the next twenty minutes on the women who are still there. a dating coach's way of thinking about online dating is that it is a numbers game made of steps, and no single woman is worth stalling the whole process for.
Getting back, and what comes next
If you hid or paused your account, switch it back on. If Incognito lapsed, either renew Majestic or accept that you are now visible again once the hidden state clears, and check your settings to confirm. If you were banned, appeal. If your data was deleted for inactivity, you will be starting from nothing.
That last case is the best argument for treating your profile like something you own. a dating coach tells men to treat online dating like building an asset and not like starting from scratch each time. In practice, keep your best pictures and your written answers saved in a folder on your own phone. Then a ban, a deletion or a lapsed subscription costs you an afternoon rather than the whole thing.
Starting over is also a good moment to look at what you had. a dating coach says what you put on a profile has to match how you show up on a date, so it fits you and not some version of a man who does not exist. Write it so a stranger could picture what an ordinary week with you looks like, and cut anything you would not say out loud on a first date.
Written by Matthew Stevens, Co-Founder & Head Coach. More than half a decade coaching men across the US and worldwide.
Everything here comes out of real coaching work: the approaches, dates, texts and profiles we go through with the men we coach.