How to Pause or Delete Your Bumble Account

Bumble is a popular dating platform. Besides dating, it lets you make friends using BFF and professional connections through the Bizz section. However, if you found someone or wish to take a break from the app, you’ve come to the right place. This article will show you how to pause or delete your Bumble account.

Dating applications have greatly influenced how we meet new people. While all these platforms, including Bumble, were made with good intent, as more individuals join these platforms, there’s a chance for the experience to get ruined.

Regardless of the reason, you can quickly say goodbye to the platform by following the steps in this article. Let’s go through the basics first.

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What Happens When You Delete Your Bumble Account

Before we look into the steps to pause or delete your Bumble account, there are still some things to know, which are as follows:

• When you delete your Bumble profile, you can’t restore it. You’ll have to make a new one to join the platform again. However, if you are uninterested in dating, we suggest you disable Date Mode. This will allow you to use your Bizz or BFF profiles.
• Your Bumble account data will be deleted once you delete the profile. Hence, if you wish to store that data, you can download them first (steps in the next section).
• Deleting your account won’t cancel your subscription. So, you may be charged for it even after you delete the profile. Hence, ensure to cancel your subscription before you pause or delete your Bumble account.
• Additionally, deleting the Bumble app won’t delete your account and vice-versa. So, choose what you want wisely.
• You can restore your Bumble account within 28 days of such deletion, whereas, you can activate it anytime you want if you have just paused it.

How to Request Bumble Account Data

Here’s how to download your Bumble account data. If you don’t wish to back up the data, skip to the next section.

Step 1: Visit the Bumble Support page to request account data.

Open the Bumble Support Page

Step 2: Choose the ‘Ask a question about my data’ reason.

Step 3: Add the email address and choose ‘I would like to request my data’ from the drop-down menu.

Step 4: Choose how you want to verify your account and then verify your account.

Step 5: You can mention the reason for the data request in the Subject and the Description, add any additional attachments to prove that you are the account owner, and hit Submit.

Once you submit the request, it will take around 30 days for Bumble to share your account data.

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How to Delete Your Bumble Account

If you have made up your mind to delete your Bumble account, here’s what you need to do:

Step 1: Open Bumble and tap the profile icon at the bottom left corner.

Step 2: Tap the settings (gear icon) at the top right corner.

Step 3: Scroll down and tap Delete account.

Step 4: Type delete in lowercase and tap confirm.

Pause (Snooze) Your Bumble Account

You can also choose to Snooze your profile. This will keep your Bumble account deactivated instead of deleting it entirely. If you are interested, here are the steps:

Step 1: Open Bumble and yap your profile at the bottom left corner. Choose Settings.

Step 2: Choose Snooze and select the time range.

Step 3: Select the reason.

Note: To deactivate the feature, follow the above steps and tap ‘Deactivate snooze mode.’

Disable Date Mode From Bumble

If you don’t know, Bumble also offers other modes besides Date. Hence, you can still use the app to make friends or career connections. Here’s how to turn off Date mode on Bumble:

Step 1: Open the Bumble app and head over to your profile.

Step 2: Choose the gear icon at the top right corner.

Step 3: Toggle off Date mode.

Step 4: Choose ‘Turn off Date’ to confirm.

Switch Modes on Bumble

You can also switch to other modes in Bumble. Bumble provides options such as bff to meet friends and bizz for professional contacts. Here are the steps:

Step 1: Open your Bumble profile and tap the Hamburger menu at the top left corner.

Step 2: Choose between bff and bizz.

Delete Images and Prompts on Bumble

If you want to delete the prompts and images and don’t want to pause or delete Bumble your account, Bumble gives the option for that too. Follow along:

Delete Images

Step 1: Open the Bumble and tap your profile at the bottom left corner.

Step 2: Tap your profile picture.

Step 3: Choose Edit profile.

Step 4: Select the image.

Step 5: Tap Delete photo.

Delete Prompts

Step 1: Open Bumble > tap your profile at the bottom left corner.

Step 2: Tap profile picture.

Step 3: Choose Edit profile.

Step 4: Select the prompt.

Step 5: Now, tap Remove.

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Don’t Let the Ship Sail

Don’t let your hopes down even if you pause or delete your Bumble account. There are many other apps to meet new people. You can also visit or try new things to meet someone special or make friends. If you have any suggestions or queries, let us know in the comments below.