If someone deletes their Tinder account, they may not be able to use the app anymore. This is because Tinder is a dating app and relies on user data. If someone deletes their account, they may not be able to find new matches or make new connections.
Restarting isn’t quite as easy as starting over in other dating apps – like Bumble and Hinge – because those services will often carry over your profile information for others to see. Tinder says it doesn’t allow this “because of the ease with which someone could pretend they were someone else.
How can I delete my account? As stated above by our community manager in response to a question about resetting passwords, there is no way to delete an account, but you can deactivate it: “If you want to temporarily close your Tinder account, you can deactivate it. You’ll still have all of your matches and conversations saved if you choose to come back.”
Could my account be deleted without me knowing? Apparently so, as this tumblr exhibits . The owner wrote about how she lost access to her account after several attempts at getting in touch with customer service went unanswered. She also had suspicions that someone else had hijacked her profile but was unable to prove them until she found a post on reddit where another user noticed the uncanny resemblance between the two Tinders. It turns out the first user’s photos were being used by a man exploiting female friends for sex using OKCupid.
When I try to log in to tinder, it says “account exists but there is no profile”, could this be a sign that my account was deleted? According to Tinder’s help pages:
“If you are getting an error message when you try to log into Tinder, it means your username and password were entered incorrectly. Make sure you’re using the right email address and password.” The person who contacted me said they saw this message after their match list had disappeared.
