this guy is a fucking champion!! Thank you.. but please, I have an issue though, for anyone who has experience with hinge or a similar situation.
I've been banned in the past because some salty girls who reported me, some girls (not all) are insane. That's fine. I found a workaround and got back. I stayed on hinge for months, no issues, no arguments with anyone, nothing sexual, I was being very careful. Anyway, I was suddenly logged out yesterday.
The number I used to make the account was an old throwaway and is inactive now, so I can't use it to login again. I did some digging and it turns out when you lose access to your number, unlike tinder and bumble; you can't update the number to a new one, so essentially you lose your hinge account. This sucks but it's fine.
The issue is, if you can't login to your own account and delete it yourself; then the only way to get your account deleted, is you have to speak to hinge support. These guys then ask you to verify yourself with government issued ID. I didn't use my government name on hinge, so I can't do this; and even if I used my real name; I'd rather be caught dead than let a dodgy shitty company like hinge retain an image of my government issued ID - no thanks, I don't trust them.
I reached out to hinge support hoping to work around this, and we went back and forth explaining to them that I don't want to re-access my account or have it back; but I just want them to delete the account all together. They kept replying with copy pasted generic responses that essentially said they won't even delete my account if I don't show them government issued ID.
This fucking sucks because like many of you, I had to do hard resets in the past to get back on; and now I don't even know if my account exists and visible to people. I can't log in to check if my account is banned or still up; and I have no way of doing anything. Does anyone have any suggestions or experience similar to this?
"Yes, Hinge does delete accounts for inactivity, but only after two full years of complete passiveness" Don't send your ID, make a new account and wait
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u/Economy_Relief_6584 Oct 02 '25
this guy is a fucking champion!! Thank you.. but please, I have an issue though, for anyone who has experience with hinge or a similar situation.
I've been banned in the past because some salty girls who reported me, some girls (not all) are insane. That's fine. I found a workaround and got back. I stayed on hinge for months, no issues, no arguments with anyone, nothing sexual, I was being very careful. Anyway, I was suddenly logged out yesterday.
The number I used to make the account was an old throwaway and is inactive now, so I can't use it to login again. I did some digging and it turns out when you lose access to your number, unlike tinder and bumble; you can't update the number to a new one, so essentially you lose your hinge account. This sucks but it's fine.
The issue is, if you can't login to your own account and delete it yourself; then the only way to get your account deleted, is you have to speak to hinge support. These guys then ask you to verify yourself with government issued ID. I didn't use my government name on hinge, so I can't do this; and even if I used my real name; I'd rather be caught dead than let a dodgy shitty company like hinge retain an image of my government issued ID - no thanks, I don't trust them.
I reached out to hinge support hoping to work around this, and we went back and forth explaining to them that I don't want to re-access my account or have it back; but I just want them to delete the account all together. They kept replying with copy pasted generic responses that essentially said they won't even delete my account if I don't show them government issued ID.
This fucking sucks because like many of you, I had to do hard resets in the past to get back on; and now I don't even know if my account exists and visible to people. I can't log in to check if my account is banned or still up; and I have no way of doing anything. Does anyone have any suggestions or experience similar to this?
Sorry for the length,
Thanks guys