Tinder claims that user safety is a priority, so it aims to prevent users who have been banned from returning to the app.
This means Tinder will recognize much of your information after getting banned. Does that include your device, phone number, and the like? Let’s find out!
What Data Does Tinder Recognize and Ban?
Tinder doesn’t just ban your account – it bans most identifiable data, too:
- Your phone number. After signing up with your number, Tinder will continue to use it as an identification tool.
- Your IP address and carrier details. They’re part of the technical data Tinder collects and stores, allowing it to recognize your network.
- Apple ID & Google Play Account. Tinder links your app store accounts to your profile, so they are tracked.
- Email Address. It’s stored in your account data, making it unusable for a new Tinder account.
- Photos & Face Data. If you completed the photo verification, Tinder has your facial geometry data, allowing it to recognize you.
- Credit Card Details. Tinder keeps purchase transaction data, including credit card info, for up to 10 years.
- Social Media Accounts. If you’ve linked any, Tinder retains data from Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, and Apple, blocking them after a ban.
- Behavior patterns, such as swipe style, location data, etc.
- Your device’s hardware ID and advertising ID
Once blacklisted, trying to sign-up with the same information (even under a new profile) often results in an instant ban or shadowban. This is known as a device-level or identity-based ban, used by Tinder since 2022.
Users banned for reasons like spam behavior, inappropriate content, mass reporting, or Terms of Service violations typically find that reinstalling the app or creating a new profile doesn’t work.
How Long Does Tinder Ban Your Device For?
So, we know that Tinder bans your device ID and simply creating a new account won’t work if the app has blacklisted your account. If you were to try, your new account would get banned AGAIN in a matter of minutes.
But, how long will your device (and everything) remain banned for?
Tinder tracks your device by collecting and storing technical data, including your device ID. This data is retained for 1 year or 3 years, or indefinitely to prevent banned users from returning.
All of this fact confirms that Tinder tracks Hardware UUIDs or IMEIs on Android devices, Advertising IDs (GAID or IDFA), App install histories, Account cookies, and cache.
Can You Unban Your Device from Tinder? How?
Thankfully, yes! If you got banned for no reason, you may appeal Tinder’s decision, but there’s a catch…
Tinder support offers little to no help. Ban appeals are often met with canned responses like “Your account has been removed for violating our Terms” without clear explanations or reversal options.
- Send a Tinder Ban Appeal → If you got banned unfairly, you can email Tinder at help@gotinder.com or questions@gotinder.com to request a review. You can also file a complaint with Better Business Bureau (BBB).
- Use a Different Device → Try accessing Tinder from a device you haven’t used before, such as a laptop or tablet.
- Factory Reset Your Device → A factory reset erases your device ID, making it appear new. You can find this option in your device’s settings.
Does Tinder Ban Your Phone Number? How to Get Around It?
Yes, Tinder bans phone numbers tied to past accounts. If you attempt to register again using the same number (even with a new name, photos, or bio), Tinder will know and flag you for a second time.
You’ll need a completely new phone number, and not from ineffective services like TextNow or Google Voice. Tinder is known to block many VoIP and disposable number providers.
If your ban appeal isn’t accepted, you can’t reuse the same number. To get back on Tinder, you’ll need a new number that hasn’t been used before. Feel free to follow these steps:
- Go to DatingZest Tinder SMS Phone Verification.
- Purchase a number.
- Enter the confirmation code, and you're set!
Alternatively, you can buy a new SIM card or ask a friend to use their number for sign-up.
How to Create a New Tinder Account After a Ban
Getting back on Tinder after a ban is tough but not impossible. Since Tinder tracks and retains a lot of data, you’ll need to take extra precautions when setting up a new account.
If you want to get back on Tinder and swiping in no time, follow these 7 steps to stay undetected after a ban:
1. Acquire a new device or reset your current device to prevent Tinder from recognizing your ID.
2. Open a new email and phone ID (Google Account or Apple ID). Tinder is really good at recognizing old info, so your phone’s new setup must be fresh.
3. Change your IP Address. You can do this by using a different Wi-Fi connection or mobile data.
4. Get your new phone number. Be it one of DatingZest’s or a new one, use it to sign up for a new Tinder account.
5. Verify with and use new photos. Since Tinder retains facial geometry data, reusing the same photos could (and will) land you another ban/shadowban.
6. Avoid linking old social media handles. Doing so allows Tinder to recognize your profile and potentially blacklist it again.
7. Don’t skip any of the steps. For instance, if your device remains banned and you sign up with a new phone number, the number will get automatically banned, and vice versa.
It may sound like overkill, but given how meticulous Tinder’s security system is, you can’t risk doing all of this, only for your account to get banned AGAIN over something small you overlooked.
Wishing you the best of luck!
Hello Liam I tried getting a new account after mine got banned using another phone number and another device can I now log onto my new account on my previously banned Device? Or will it also get banned
Hi Sandra,
Just to confirm, You already have a new account created, just want to login into a phone device which been previously banned before?
We do not recommend it because you might be banned or even if you are able to log in shadowban hammer is waiting.
Kind regards,
Liam
Did you try to login previously banned Device before with new account?
How many days or month before to open my Tinder,and how to make new tinder if im still banned.
Hi Genrose,
No need to wait a single day, just be careful while opening a new Tinder account.
Make sure it’s a new phone number, new email, new pics etc… do NOT use old information.
Regards
if i factory reset my phone number, new email address and phone number and new picture, will it still work for me , with same phone, if i do factory reset
Hello there, if i use a new device, phone number, email, apple id yet after downloading the app and making an account switch back to my previous apple id that had been signed up when i got banned, will i get banned again when i log in? I am wrongfully banned 🙁
It’s good
Hi how do you change your device ID? On an apple phone?
I was banned for no reason, and I cannot get a reason why or atleast a temporary banning. I changed my email, my number, my apple Id
Hello Liam,
I intend to change my phone number & factory reset my phone & change device ID should I be able to return to tinder app please let me know.
Thanks.
Hi Saully,
Yes, you are able to get back on the Tinder app but you need a new Apple ID while setting up the iPhone.
Due when you enter your same Apple ID it restores your info cache data and other things. Set up new apple ID, Download Tinder then you can restore into old Apple ID.
Kind regards,
Liam
Hi Liam,
I’ve had a new (burner) device associated with a new account linked to a (burner) Google voice number for a while now and it’s been working. I just got a new cell phone and I’m wondering whether it’ll be safe to log in from the new device once my old number is ported to it along with my phone plan. I’d be giving Tinder my burner number and separate email address, but I want to be sure it won’t somehow recognize either the Google account associated with all the Android software or my old phone number – even though I’m not planning on telling tinder about either of those. It should only be able to recognize the phone number I use to log in and the actual IMEI number(s) from the device(s) I used the banned account on, right? Can it see what number the new device typically uses if I don’t tell it?
Thanks for posting this – I’m really not eager to go through making a whole new account again, but I’m certainly sick of having to use two separate devices!
– A Concerned User
So I’ve purchased a new iphone. I want to keep the same number but I’m banned. However If I use my friends number on my app will that work? As in I get the code off his phone. Please let me know that would be much appreciated.
So I’m gonna get a new phone, email and number. Do I need to wait to make my new email address on a device that wasn’t banned? Or can I make a new one on my current phone?
Thank you.
I take several pictures at the same time. If I don’t use the same picture but use a different photo taken around the same time that looks almost identical but is a different picture taken at the same time. Is that ok?
If I get new iphone and log in to my apple id but I will use different phone number and email for registration on Tinder, will it ban me by knowing what else do I have in phone (mails apps where I’m logged in with “banned” mail on tinder?
oh I wasnt reading comments my bad
Hello, this of for your tips.
I started an account with a new phone/SIM card, email and only using 5g (no wifi)
Everything fine because is everything new.
The thing is I’m afraid to put my pics, older on tinder no, probably some with this other phone but: they could recognize me the same?
Also doubting about purchasing a plus/boost, I read about pyypl create virtual Mastercard, so you have feedbacks?
Thanks in advance