How to Delete Your Facebook Dating Profile (or Take a Break)
This article explains how to delete your Facebook Dating profile completely, plus how to pause your profile if you’d rather just take a break without losing conversations and matches.
How to Delete a FB Dating Profile
Deleting your Facebook Dating profile will remove the answers you’ve filled out, any likes you’ve gathered, your matches, and the conversations you’ve made with other users.
This is permanent, so none of that will return even if you activate Facebook Dating again later to start a new profile.
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Tap the menu button at the top right (Android) or bottom right (iOS).
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Scroll down and select Dating. If you don’t see it, expand the See more menu.
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Press the settings/gear icon at the top right.
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Select the General tab.
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Scroll down to the Account section, and tap Delete Profile.
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To avoid losing your matches and having to start all over again in the future should you return to Facebook Dating, there’s an option on this screen to “take a break” instead. You can read more about what that is in the next section below.
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Choose a reason for why you’re leaving, and then select Next. If you’d rather not say, select Skip at the top.
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Read the prompt that says you won’t be able to make a new Dating profile for 7 days if you delete your account now. If you’re sure, press Delete.
What Happens When I Delete Facebook Dating?
When you delete your Dating profile, it will remove any answers, likes, matches, and conversations you have.
What it won’t delete are items on your regular FB profile. This is because a FB Dating profile is different. This means you can completely erase it without affecting anything on your regular profile.
The photos you’ve uploaded on Facebook won’t be affected, and neither will other things like Messenger messages and friends, since those are unrelated to Facebook Dating.
However, since Dating is built-in to your Facebook account, deleting your Facebook account will also delete your Dating profile.
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