How to Get More Lives on Candy Crush

Last Updated: July 7, 2022

One of the biggest issues new Candy Crush players face is running out of lives. Everyone starts out with 5 lives, and as you start using these you get an additional life every 30 minutes. Math-savvy readers will have figured out that this means a full set of lives every 2.5 hours. Candy Crush addicts will all agree that is too long to wait, especially when you have finally figured out how to clear the latest level you’re stuck on.

There’s no need to worry though. There are ways to get additional lives. Two are Candy Crush management approved, and one is designed to help you get extra lives for free without begging your friends.

Method 1

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Buying Lives

While Candy Crush is free to download and play, in-app purchases for extra boosters and lives have helped the apps designers make millions already. Here’s how you can buy lives in Candy Crush.

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Click on the “More Lives Now” Option when faced with the “No More Lives” screen. This is the option to buy more lives from Candy Crush using your credit card or other connected payment method.
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Click on the “$0.99” button to buy lives. Depending on your mobile platform (iOS or Android), you will be connected to the store via the app to approve this purchase. Remember, this option costs money.

Method 2

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Asking Friends

Like most games with a built-in social networking aspect, Candy Crush allows you to ask (read: beg) your friends for extra lives. Here’s how this works.

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Connect your Facebook account. Asking friends for life is only possible if your Facebook account is connected to Candy Crush. Click on the connect button on the Candy Crush home screen.
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Allow Candy Crush to post to your friends on your behalf. This will allow the game to contact your friends when you want more lives, or boosters, but will not post status updates on your behalf. This will also sync your gameplay with your Facebook account so you can play Candy Crush on Facebook as well and still see the progress synced with your phone app.You will see the following three screens after you give permission.
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Ask your friends to gift you extra lives. Once you’ve gone through the process of connecting your Facebook and Candy Crush account, you need to click on the "Ask Friends" button to get them to send you extra lives when you run out.
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Choose the friends who want to ask. You’ll see a page giving you a list of your Facebook friends. Choose the ones you want to ask for extra lives. Remember that you can’t have more than 5 lives at a time, so there’s no need to ask 20 people as you won’t be able to use all those lives together. It’s more recommended to ask a few friends at a time, rather than spamming their accounts with requests every day.

Method 3

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Unlimited Lives in Candy Crush

The cat’s out of the bag. This is the easiest, cheapest and quickest way to get more lives. Every Candy Crush addict needs to know this trick as you’ll have a full set of lives in less than a minute. Note: While this trick works on all mobile platforms, the screenshots are from iOS 7.

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Go to Settings > General > Date & Time. The trick simply moves your phone’s times a few hours ahead so you can get the free lives, then back (this is important), before you actually start playing.
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Move the time on your phone a few hours ahead.You have to turn off the option to set time automatically for this. It’s easier to go one day or one month forward, as it’s simpler to change days or months as opposed to moving the hour counter. In this example we’ve gone one day forward.
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Go back to the game. You’ll see you have full lives. Don’t start playing just yet. Go back to Settings > General > Date & Time and fix the time. It’s easiest to set time to “Set automatically” as it will use your carrier to determine the correct time and automatically adjust.

Community Q&A

Question

Am I able to pause unlimited times on Candy Crush while I go out?

Community Answer

If you mean unlimited lives, the answer is no. They're limited by time. You should be able to pause it though.
Question

If I purchase lives in Candy Crush, do they stay until I use them, or do they expire?

Community Answer

They do not go away until you use them.
Question

What do I do if I try to buy lives to open the next episode and the game won't allow it?

Community Answer

You could always go into your phone's settings and change the time ahead to the amount of time until you have more lives. For example, if it's 4:00 and you have to wait 10 minutes until you have more lives, close the app, go into your settings, change the time to 4:10, and you should get your lives.

Warnings

You can only buy extra lives or ask your friends on Facebook if you’re connected to the Internet.

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If you start gameplay without adjusting your clock to the right time you will get penalized by the game. It’s simple to avoid this by always setting your clock to the current time before playing again.

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If you move time backwards and forwards several times (when not using “Set Time Automatically”) you clock will fall back a few minutes. It’s easy to fix this by using the “Set Time Automatically” option every time you’re done.

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