Facebook dating is an amazing alternative to online dating apps like Tinder or Bumble to find love right from your primary social media app.
However, there may be times or many reasons for a Facebook user to want to delete their Facebook Dating profile.
To delete Facebook Dating, you’d need to use your phone and go to Menu > Dating > Dating Settings > General > and Delete Profile.
Table of Contents
- How To Permanently Delete Facebook Dating
- How To Temporarily Delete Facebook Dating To Take A Break
- Should I Take A Break Or Delete Facebook Dating?
- Reasons To Delete Facebook Dating
- What Happens When I Delete Facebook Dating
- Limit Reached Error: How To Create A New Facebook Dating Profile After Deleting
- How To Remove Facebook Dating Shortcut
- Alternatives To Facebook Dating
- Facebook Dating On PC
- Why Is Facebook Dating Not Showing Up For Me?
- Conclusion
How To Permanently Delete Facebook Dating
If you were curious to try Facebook dating but it hasn’t worked for you, you can permanently delete Facebook Dating by deleting your Facebook dating profile.
To delete your Facebook dating profile, log in to your Facebook account using a Phone.
Since Facebook dating is not available on the Facebook website on a desktop, you can’t delete your profile from a PC or Mac.
Once logged in, head over to the Facebook Menu by clicking the Three Horizontal Lines shown on the top right hand of the screen, beside the Notifications icon.
From here, click on Dating.
In the Facebook Dating app, head over to Settings from the top right of the screen.
Now tap on General.
Scroll to the bottom and select Delete Profile.
Upon confirmation, once again tap on Delete.
That’s it! You’ve successfully deleted your Facebook dating profile.
Once your Facebook dating profile has been deleted, you’ll lose your dating matches, likes, and conversations.
Alternatively, if you delete your Facebook account altogether, your Facebook Dating profile will automatically be deleted with it.
How To Temporarily Delete Facebook Dating To Take A Break
Instead of taking the permanent measure of deleting your Facebook Dating profile altogether and losing all your conversations and matches, if online dating has been overwhelming to you for a while, you can choose to temporarily pause Facebook Dating with its ‘Take A Break’ option.
With Take A Break, you will stop being matched to new people until you resume Facebook Dating.
While you’re on the break, you can still conversate with your previous matches and likes.
To temporarily delete or take a break from Facebook dating, log in to your Facebook account using a phone.
Head over to the Facebook Menu from the top right corner of the screen, and then tap on Dating.
From the top right, select Dating Settings and head over to General settings.
Scroll down to the Account section and tap on the option of Take A Break.
Finally, press Continue to put your Facebook Dating profile on pause.
Whenever you feel like resuming your Facebook Dating profile, head over to the Facebook Menu and tap on Dating.
Should I Take A Break Or Delete Facebook Dating?
It depends on how your Facebook Dating experience has been.
If you’ve stumbled upon that question, you’re obviously done with the online dating aspect of Facebook.
This could either be if you’ve found love using online dating and aren’t single anymore or if the experience was more overwhelming than you first considered and it doesn’t feel right to you anymore.
For either option, the answer depends on if you’re ready to lose your connections from Facebook Dating.
You will not be seen, liked, or matched with other people either way.
However, if you delete Facebook Dating, you’ll lose all your Facebook Dating matches, conversations, and likes.
With the Take A Break option, you can still chat with people you enjoy texting.
If you think you’ve found the right person already or the Facebook Dating experience has been too unfavorable to you, you should consider deleting Facebook Dating.
However, if you’re unsure about commitment, have found someone but would still like to have active options for a while without being openly available on the Facebook Dating app, you could Take A Break and continue texting with other matches.
If you’re overwhelmed by the response you got and have been matched too much, you could Take A Break from Facebook Dating and put focus on the people you’ve already matched with for a while.
If that doesn’t help you find the right person and you want to continue the search, you can resume Facebook Dating back again anytime.
Reasons To Delete Facebook Dating
If you’re considering deleting Facebook Dating, here are some reasons that may help you make the right decision:
- If you’re not exactly looking for commitment, alternate dating apps like Tinder or Bumble would be more appropriate for your interests.
- If the Facebook Dating app has given you an unfavorable experience, deleting your profile can help you lose focus from it and give you time to move on and feel better.
- If you think you’ve found the right person, from Facebook Dating or elsewhere, it would be a good move for your relationship to delete your online dating profiles to show your partner you’re invested in what you guys have.
- Facebook dating, similar to other online dating apps, is comparatively a less safe option to connect with strangers than dating physically or outdoors since online dating is more or less completely anonymous.
- If you use Facebook to socialize primarily and scroll memes, Dating could be a distraction and a better option could be to choose a different dating app.
- If you’re curious or unsure about your sexual orientation, it may be better to discover yourself in the real world than try online dating.
What Happens When I Delete Facebook Dating
Once you delete your Facebook Dating profile, you will lose access to its profile permanently. If at a later point you want to try it again, you’ll have to create a new Facebook Dating profile from scratch.
Along with that, deleting your Facebook profile will also make you lose your Dating preferences (answers), likes, matches, and conversations.
All of this will be irrecoverable.
Even if you delete your Facebook dating profile and lose your conversations, your matches will still have your conversations to view in their Messenger apps.
Lastly, when you delete your Facebook Dating profile, you will have to wait for 7 days before you can create a new profile and jump back to online dating with Facebook.
If any of those reasons make you reluctant to delete your Facebook Dating profile, a better option for you could be to Take A Break instead and temporarily delete your Facebook Dating profile while keeping active conversations active.
Limit Reached Error: How To Create A New Facebook Dating Profile After Deleting
If you’ve recently deleted your Facebook Dating Profile, you will have to wait for seven days before you can create a new profile and get back into Facebook Dating.
If you received the error of Limit Reached when selecting Facebook Dating, this means it hasn’t been 7 days since you deleted your previous profile and you’ll have to try again later.
Once the 7 days limit has passed, you can log into your Facebook app and head over to the Facebook menu from the top right corner.
Now select Dating.
Tap on Get Started and answer the following questions with appropriate responses of your choice.
You can also choose to Skip questions and move on to the next question without answering.
Once you’re done with the questions, review your Facebook Dating profile details and tap Confirm.
You can now complete your Facebook Dating profile information by either using the option of Preview suggested profile (lets Facebook use your information and pictures from your Facebook account) or do it manually by selecting Complete profile manually and adding more details and pictures yourself.
Next, select your Gender identity and the identities you wish to be matched with.
That’s all! You’ve now successfully created a new Facebook Dating Profile.
How To Remove Facebook Dating Shortcut
While using the Facebook app on your phone, you may be viewing the Dating shortcut in the app even if you don’t have an active Facebook Dating profile or have never created one, to begin with.
This could be misleading and unfavorable to people already in committed relationships or who want to be more private with their use of online dating.
If that is the case and you want to remove the dating shortcut from Facebook, tap on the Dating tab shortcut and then select Not Now.
You will now be asked if you wish to keep the Dating shortcut on your Facebook app. Click Remove on this.
You won’t be able to see the Dating shortcut on your Facebook anymore. If you want to access Facebook Dating, you will now have to do so by going to the Facebook Menu from the top right of the screen and then selecting Dating.
Alternatives To Facebook Dating
If you had hard luck on Facebook dating or an unpleasant experience altogether, this doesn’t online dating just isn’t the thing for you.
You could always try other Online Dating apps that may help you connect and match with better people.
Here are the top online dating apps as an alternative to Facebook Dating:
Tinder
Easily the most popular online dating app with the largest number of active users.
However, Tinder is more popularly used for people searching for hookups rather than commitments. If that fits your interests, don’t look anywhere else.
Eharmony
There’s nothing wrong with being picky, and Eharmony recognizes that.
Eharmony lets users have broader filters to help them find exactly what they’re looking for, instead of just matching on a basic basis used by other online dating apps.
Happn
Happn is a mixture of online dating and outdoor connections as well while being an online dating app.
How?
Well, they took a different approach than other dating apps.
Happn only connects you with users that have ‘passed by you’ in the real world.
This also means your connections will be easier to meet since they probably live near your home or workplace to be ‘passing by you’.
Bumble
Tired of receiving creepy tests? Bumble could be the perfect fix for you.
Bumble functions just like any other online dating app, however, for opposite-sex matches, Bumble restricts men from texting first.
This makes women feel easier to match with strangers as the conversation can only start with them texting first.
Hinge
If Facebook Dating got you clustered with strangers, and you like to stay close to your social bubble, Hinge would be the perfect online dating option for you.
Hinge only allows its users to be connected with third-degree connections i.e. friends of friends or through your workplace.
This helps users feel safe connecting with strangers who are, in a way, always mutual friends or a colleague.
Facebook Dating On PC
If you were looking forward to deleting your Facebook Dating Profile from your PC, you would probably not be finding the Facebook Dating app altogether on your PC.
This is because Facebook Dating was never launched on the Facebook website that we access from our computers.
It was only designed for the Facebook app that is downloaded through the Android Play Store or iOS App Store.
However, if you NEED to access Facebook Dating from your PC, there could be an easy workaround by using an emulator.
Download an emulator on your PC. Bluestacks is one of the most popular ones.
Now install the application and start it up on your PC.
You’ll now see an Android emulating screen on your PC that mimics a generic Android environment.
Now just like you’d do it on a phone, download Facebook from Play Store, open it up, and access Facebook Dating, whether it’s to create a dating profile on it or delete Facebook Dating.
Why Is Facebook Dating Not Showing Up For Me?
Facebook Dating can be accessed from the Facebook Menu in the app (top right corner).
If it’s not showing up for you, you may be experiencing any of the following issues:
- You may be using an outdated version of Facebook. Head to the Play Store/App Store, search Facebook, and download any updates if available.
- If you’re using Facebook on a PC, the Facebook Dating application can not be accessed. You could either access it using a phone or download an emulator on your PC (guide mentioned above).
- You live in a country where the Facebook Dating app is not available yet. You can Google to ensure if it’s available in your country or on any news on future availability.
As an alternate, you could either join a dating group on Facebook by searching [country name] dating on Facebook or pick an alternative dating app from our list available above.
Conclusion
That is all there is to deleting Facebook dating and the issues you may be facing with it.
I hope your reason to delete Facebook Dating was that you found the right person.
However, if you had an unpleasant experience instead, don’t lose hope, and feel free to try an alternative app.
Either way, good luck on your journey to find love.