A Tinder ban,
lifted in 31 days.
No reason given, and no way to appeal: Tinder’s appeal needs the banned login. A data access request and its one-month legal deadline got it lifted.
It costs nothing, and it tells you plainly when paying anyone is the wrong move.
31 days, step by step
A data access request goes to Tinder: everything it holds, the ban record, and a human review.
Match Group’s legal desk points to a tool that needs the banned login. Tinder passes the ticket to “a specialist”.
A formal notice to Tinder’s data protection officer, naming the legal deadline.
One short chase. Two holding replies.
Tinder’s Data Protection Office lifts the ban. A new account opens the same afternoon.
“…your credentials have been unbanned. If you would like to create a new account, please do so…”
Tinder’s Data Protection Office
The email, and the app the same afternoon
Then Hinge: a copied ban, overturned
Hinge had banned the same person because of the Tinder ban, and said so in writing: the account “cannot be reinstated unless and until the original Tinder ban is overturned.” Its ban screen promised that “any new accounts will be immediately removed.”
Tinder’s lift goes onto the same Hinge ticket, quoted word for word: Hinge’s own condition is met.
Correct the ban record, stop applying it while you check, and stop keeping it: Articles 16, 18 and 21 of the GDPR.
Hinge’s Trust and Safety team overturns the ban and records the old account as closed in good standing.
A new Hinge account, past the sign-up gate and into the app.
“…the original ban upon which your Hinge ban was based has been overturned. Accordingly, we have also overturned your ban on Hinge.”
Hinge Trust and Safety
Hinge’s email, and the app the next day
Personal details, and the other member on screen, blurred.
What it proves, and what it does not
It proves the route. A data access request carries a legal deadline. Tinder answered on its last day, and lifted the ban; Hinge followed.
A lift travels, when you ask. Hinge did not lift its copy of the ban by itself. It lifted it once its own condition was put back to it in writing.
It is not a success rate. No case predicts yours, and neither app said why it banned. Other documented cases: do dating app ban appeals work.
It is not a workaround. Nothing was reset or evaded. Both apps lifted the ban and invited a new account in writing.
Check your case first. It is free, and it says plainly when paying anyone is the wrong move.