And online dating platforms like Tinder have been launched to make love easier. Currently, the platform has more than 75 million monthly active users, which shows that it needs to help its users in some way.
If you’ve ever used Tinder, you already know how this platform works and how complicated some of the app’s features can be. One of those complications here is trying to figure out if someone has been matched on Tinder or deleted their account from the platform.
When someone deletes their Tinder account, it can be for a variety of reasons. Maybe they’ve found the right partner and want to settle down forever, or maybe they don’t like the profiles they’ve seen on the platform lately.
Some users even left the platform because their online dating experience wasn’t as good as they expected. And all of these reasons are good enough if you have decided to delete your account.
In this guide, you will learn how to tell if someone has deleted their Tinder account.
How do you know if someone has deleted their Tinder account?
Their profile will be deleted
The first and most obvious sign that someone has deleted their Tinder account is that their profile has been removed from the platform. This means that their profile will no longer be found in the Discovery section of other users and you will not be able to find them using the search bar (if you found two).
Also, when you open their profile directly from the link, you get an error message: “Oops, something went wrong. Please try again.”
All their current matches will be deleted
When someone permanently deletes their Tinder account, Tinder automatically assumes that they have found a match or that they are no longer interested in online dating. Either way, there is no point in keeping matches indefinitely.
This is why when someone deletes their account, all current matches immediately become mismatched. However, if you were one of these matches, it might seem like this person isn’t really comparable to you. Often this has led to a lot of confusion among Tinder users.
In the next section, we’ll discuss how to unfriend someone who doesn’t respond to you and delete their Tinder account. But for now, let’s get back to the topic and move on to the last sign that someone’s Tinder account has actually been deleted.
Any conversations you had with them on Tinder will disappear
When people delete their Tinder account, the Tinder team deletes all conversations from the platform, just like they delete games. To make it more sustainable, they also delete these conversations from the accounts of other participating users.
In other words, when a person deletes their Tinder account, all conversations on the platform they have participated in are deleted.
Has anyone really deleted their Tinder account? Or were they unmatched?
If you’ve been paying attention to what we’ve talked about so far, you’ll notice that all three of the above signs also apply when someone unlinks you on Tinder. We understand that this kind of confusion can be exhausting for other users, especially if you have come to like this person.
So how do you know if a person has broken up with you or deleted their account? Well, there is only one way to do it and it can take time and effort.
You need another Tinder account to see the difference between these actions. Now you can make a new (fake) effort for yourself and search for those users or ask a friend for help.
If one of your friends is on Tinder, you can ask their account to search for that person’s profile. On Tinder, you can only use the search bar to search for people you have matched with.
To find someone outside of your matches, you have to use the old method of scrolling through the Discovery section until their profile is displayed. The length of the process depends on the number of people using Tinder in your area and how close this person is to your location.
We understand that this solution may seem more problematic than it is worth it for some users. However, our defense is the only way to know the difference between these two Tinder features; so we can’t do much about it.