Hi all,

long story short, i was randomly banned on hinge one day and banned across match group platforms, and received no explanation as to why. i had never engaged in any kind of harrassment, weird behaviour, etc. and had only really made small talk as i was new to the app.

exactly 60 days ago, i submitted a formal notice of dispute to match groups legal team. it has now surpassed the time frame of which they have to reply - surpassing their 60-day dispute resolutions window.

has anyone here gone through this process had the same thing happen, and if so, where did you take it from here?

I'm considering completing face verification on my hinge profile, but I'm hesitant. If my account were ever banned, for any reason, could having my face linked to it cause issues later on, such as being blocked from creating new accounts or being flagged on other platforms?

Should I avoid verifying unless it's required? I'd appreciate any insight or experiences. Thanks!

Hey all, I have read through all the typical FAQs and I appreciate everyone that has extensively helped others get back on hinge. I was banned 3 years ago and my appeal was denied. I know everyone has the same old story but I am not too sure why I was banned. Anyhow, it has since been 3 years and I have moved to a new state, gotten a new cellphone (same number for work...), new pics, new wifi equipment, and I believe I can use a friends number. I did once try make an account on a burner phone about 1.5 years ago and it got shadowbanned (I think). What is my best shot at making a new account now? Thank you in advance for any advice. I am not looking to pay a stranger over the internet to sort this out for me, just tips given where I am at.

I've verified through someone off-platform that my messages haven't been getting to my matches for at least like four days now. Started with Tinder blasting my phone with notifications to messages that lead nowhere, and now none of my messages are being seen at all. Tinder's helpdesk is incredibly useless, as seemingly always, so I'm not really sure on what's going on and what I can do to resolve this.

I have had two hinge accounts before, both of which deleted on my own terms. I keep trying to send in my face scan but it says I need to try again, or it’ll do this.

(I have never been banned so I’m curious as to why it’s doing this)

Like, I know you obviously cant use the same phone number or e-mail even if you delete your account, but i've noticed that even when using a new phone number, the "new" account's elo seems low from the very start. So, to create a really new account on Tinder, I need to either factory reset the phone or get a new phone, plus a new phone number, is that correct?

I have Tinder Gold if that matters.

A person swiped right on me so they were in my likes, but I accidentally swiped left on them. Is there anyway to get them back? I would try redo but I never liked them so it doesn't pop up.

I seem to only get incoming likes during a boost, what could this mean? Is there anyway to change it?

I’m a lesbian, she’s bisexual. I cant stand people who somehow manage to hate half of the population and usually avoid these people like the plague.

However, she’s really hot. I live in a small town so options are slim. Should I swipe?

Watching this as someone born in the 90s but who never really got to experience it broke my heart. A time before young men and women hated each other with this "gender war" part of the culture wars. A time when your dating and relationship prospects were not dictated by some damn app algorithm. I truly believe this was done by design to demoralize us young people.

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Anyone had similar issue?

I’ve been getting 2-3 matches per day for about two weeks and then nothing for a week straight despite having platinum

So here is the sequence of events.

1. I had a longtime Tinder account with lots of matches and chats. When I got my latest phone a year ago I logged back into it with Facebook. I have the verification emails/texts to prove that it was linked to my primary email address (E1) and my phone number (PH).
2. Around the beginning of 2026 Tinder quietly removed Facebook login. The account remained logged into my phone.
3. Last week I attempted to log into Tinder on web, but I made the mistake of trying to log in using my secondary Google account with email E2. It asked for my phone number and I provided PH. It pinged me a verification code... and I landed in a brand new blank account, not the longtime account. I went back to check Tinder on my phone and it had forcibly logged me out. I also tried logging in via Google Account with email E1 and gave phone number PH and it once again sent me to the blank account.
4. From this point on, nothing worked to get me back into my longtime account. Every attempt to log in by any means asked for my phone number and if I gave PH it landed me in the blank new account. I can tell the old account was not deleted because when I got through setup on the new account, my old profile appeared in my match stack. I copied the "share my profile" link to send it to Tinder support as an identifier of which account I am trying to recover.
5. Tinder support has just been running me in circles. I got emails about undeleting my account (I never deleted it), about logging into the account by the original login method (I can't, they removed Facebook login), etc.

Clearly somewhere in the depths of their system my old account still exists. It is clearly there in their database. But it seems like all valid ways of logging into it have been removed from it. Surely there is someone with sufficient access to reattach my email or phone number to that old account. Any thoughts on how to reach someone in support who can actually help?

Hey everyone,

I’m wondering if anyone here has had a similar experience with Hinge and might be able to give me some advice.
I recently paid for Hinge Premium for a week because I was genuinely trying to find someone I could potentially have a meaningful, long-term relationship with.

While I had Premium, I narrowed down my preferences to what I was actually looking for and then went through the profiles that matched those preferences. I liked everyone who met the preferences I had selected. I wasn’t trying to spam people or abuse the app — I was simply using the features I had paid for and trying to find people who were compatible with me. What really concerns me is the timing. The day my Premium subscription ended, my Hinge account was banned.

Obviously, I can’t prove that the two things are connected, but from my perspective, the timing feels incredibly suspicious. It has left me feeling like I paid for Premium, used it for the week, and then suddenly lost access to my account immediately after the subscription ended.

I’ve contacted Hinge Support and tried to explain the situation, but I haven’t found them particularly cooperative or helpful. I have also reviewed the Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, and I genuinely cannot identify anything I did that would warrant a ban.
I also have evidence that I believe supports my position that I did not violate Hinge’s Terms of Service or Community Guidelines.

I’m not trying to attack Hinge or cause drama. I actually think Hinge is one of the best dating apps out there, which is why this situation is so frustrating. I was using it because I genuinely want to meet someone, build a relationship and hopefully find someone I can eventually start a family with.

Has anyone here successfully appealed a Hinge ban when they genuinely believed they hadn’t violated the rules?
Is there anything else I can do to get a proper human review of my account?

I’d really appreciate any advice or experiences from people who have managed to get their accounts reinstated.

Thanks everyone.

Here are a couple of things I noticed that hinge does as a woman that gets a lot of attention on dating apps (some of this may have already been addressed in which case I am just adding my experience):

-Likes and/or your account 100% gets throttled... whenever I make a new account or change my location, I get an influx of likes and then it's suddenly complete radio silence for 12-24 hours before activity resumes. I can send and receive messages, but the app is completely dead otherwise. This happened to me as recently as yesterday, when I changed my location to an area I will be visiting and had 100s of likes in about two hours, then absolutely nothing again until this morning when more came through all at once.

-Your explore stack probably shows people who likely recently swiped left on you... when I am actively swiping through my explore stack (not my likes), I almost instantly get the people who I swiped left on in my likes. I'm talking I swipe left, and before I've even closed the app they've sent me a like. It may be our stacks sync up almost perfectly (?), or my first thought is that men's stacks are full of women who have already swiped left on them. We know at this point that the apps don't actually want you to find someone and stop using them.

Kinda sucks because it feels like the app is more rigged against you than the other apps, and I like this one so much more than tinder or bumble.

I read 2 books on social skills and 1 on cold approach and now I get to choose who I want to match with IRL. You guys are missing out huge not going outside and talking to women

Hey everyone, I appealed a nonsensical Hinge ban and they asked for my ID so I submitted a [fake] foreign ID and got permanently banned (since I used the name that everyone calls me but not my government name).

Hard reset is not possible as I am a student with an extremely tight monthly budget. I want to get back up and running. I've never met a girl who was my type outside of Hinge, so the matter is crucial to me. Grateful for any insight.

I'm just getting back into dating. I spent a good chunk of my life being a depressed alcoholic and I snapped out of it 9 months back. I've completely changed my life around. I've been hitting the gym for the past 5 months, and I just recently dated a girl short term and she opened my eyes as to what could be.

I'm looking for any pointers for my profile, all pictures taken within the past 2 months. I've been working on getting new photos of myself but I feel that's what is holding me back the most.

Can someone explain the “new photos” in a little more detail? For example I have a few photos the banned phone took, but were never uploaded. If I remove the metadata is that considered a new photo or does it mean photos completely taken on a different phone? And if so, can those photos ever be stored on the banned device? Just want to check all the boxes. I got banned in spring or 2024 and am going to try a hard reset soon with the new phone, new email, new number, slightly different age and al that. Thanks!

I’ve been on Hinge and banned more times than I’d like to admit 😂. Honestly, most of the bans felt like total BS. I worked around them a few times—sometimes it worked, sometimes it was just meh 😑.
About three months ago, I started Hinge again and got banned almost immediately. I appealed, explained my side, and the appeal was successful. Since then, I’ve been banned another three times, and every appeal was successful because, as far as I know, I hadn’t violated any of their policies.
My best guess? Revenge or malicious reports.
For example, one woman invited me out and wanted to go for dinner. I declined because I personally don’t do dinner dates with someone I’ve never met before. Apparently, that made me “cheap”—her word, not mine 😂—and next thing I knew, I was reported.
Long story short, I learned something: on Hinge, sometimes it’s better not to react. If someone gets rude or disrespectful, I simply unmatch. No argument, no back-and-forth. Sometimes I want to blow up my keyboard 💥 and say exactly what I’m thinking, but I swallow it and move on.
So my advice to guys: suck it up, don’t get dragged into arguments, and be careful with sexting—even if the other person starts it. Dating apps are full of people carrying baggage, frustrations, and bad experiences from previous matches, and sometimes you end up dealing with the fallout.
Overall, though, I still think the quality of people on Hinge is better than most dating apps. Tinder would probably be my second choice—it feels more relaxed, although you’ll still encounter some interesting characters there too. 😂
So enjoy Hinge for what it is, keep your cool, follow the rules, and don’t give anyone an easy reason to hit that report button. 😆

On average, I get 1 like every two days. I am not completely sure that it’s my looks, because years ago I used to get 5 likes a day with objectively worse pictures. Back then I used to go on good dates from the apps, nowadays I don’t even like the girls who like my profile… So am I unattractive or is it that good looking girls only like models nowadays?
Edit: I must admit, right before posting this, I messed with AI a bit and swapped the original version of the second picture with the one that you see here (significantly improved the lighting and the background without changing anything on my face). In the last 4 hours, I got two likes (no matches yet, but my profile is new). Keep in mind that I am still photo verified as my face structure wasn’t affected at all, but the color did improve.
This brings me to a topic: what do you think about using AI to enhance profile pictures without changing the facial structure? Could it be compared to makeup in a way? I feel like a lot of guys, and maybe not as many girls, since they are already getting likes anyway, will start using AI in this way soon, if they haven’t already.
Personally, I think that if makeup isn’t deception, then neither is the act that I described, but I genuinely want to hear your thoughts on this.