HOW DOES TINDER WORK? – LEARN TO FLIRT ON THE WEB
How does Tinder work? was the third most searched question on Google in 2019. If you want to know what Tinder is, how it works or what it is for, here is this complete guide with everything you need to know to use Tinder for free and flirt in the dating application in this outlier 2021.
1- What is Tinder and what is it for?
Tinder is a dating application for meeting people close to you with whom there has been a mutual interest. When there has been that mutual interest, the so-called Tinder MATCH is produced.
That’s when you can chat and start a conversation. If either person is not interested, he will not be able to speak. However, if you have your Instagram linked to your Tinder profile, you can see your username and go to Instagram to talk to him.
While it appears that Tinder is a new app, the truth is that it was in 2012 when its creators (Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Jonathan Badeen and Ramon Denia) tested it among their classmates at the University of Southern California. .
Two years later it was considered the app of the year with over 50 million users. Currently, there are more than 26 million games per day across the 190 countries in which it is available.
2- How does Tinder work?
The Tinder interface shows you a picture of a person with their name, age and some other data which can be university, job, about me or distance. This is why the first image is important, it is the one that has the most impact.
If you want to know more about that profile you can click on information (the i wrapped in a white circle, bottom right).
Then the complete profile with all data is displayed. You can also see the rest of the images by scrolling to the right, or to the left if you want to see the previous ones.
Once you’ve seen the full profile, it’s time to make a decision: Did you like that profile? If you don’t like it, swipe left or press the lower X ❌
If you are in love or want to know more about that person, swipe right or press the green heart below 💚. And if you really, really, really liked that person, swipe the card up or click on the blue Super Like star ⭐. Easy, right?
If the other profile hasn’t slipped to the right, you won’t be able to talk because they don’t want to know you anymore. But, if the other person likes you, then the game is over and you can chat.
It never lets you know if there is no match so you won’t know if the other person has NOT met you or hasn’t seen your profile yet, so stay calm.
A tip from Tinder: if you like a profile, see if they have their Instagram account online and start following them there. I also recommend that you write to the Instagram user in the “About Me” section of your profile to have more contact possibilities.
What do the buttons on Tinder mean?
↩️ you can go back if you have inadvertently rejected a profile or if you have changed your mind. Only for Tinder Gold or Tinder Plus.
❌ You didn’t like that profile. Be careful because sometimes we slip left by mistake. It can only be recovered with the previous button.
⭐️ Superlike. The Tinder star means that the other user sees that you gave him a superlike so he knows you like him a lot. You have a maximum of 5 superlikes every 24 hours.
💚 You liked that person. Good luck!
⚡ ️ Tinder Boost. Skip the line and become the most visible profile in your area for 30 minutes. Tinder Gold and Tinder Plus version only.
3- How to create a good profile on Tinder
Let’s get to the heart of the matter: creating a good profile to be successful on Tinder. Read these passages that I explain to you and apply all the advice I give you:
Edit information in Tinder
Uploading Photos to Tinder : Choosing your photos in Tinder is perhaps the most important. You can choose up to 9 photos and for this you have to click on the + button and choose the photos from the reel of your mobile phone or from your Facebook or Instagram profiles.
Deleting a photo is as easy as clicking on the X at the bottom right of the photo. Remember that you can move the photos in seconds and slide them to the desired position.
Photo Options: You can enable Smart Photos so that Tinder can choose the best profile photo based on its analysis of what users like best. Perfect for the undecided.
About me: it’s time to sell yourself to get the attention of your future love. In 500 characters you have to explain who you are and what you are looking for. You can also take the opportunity to show your hobbies or curious things about yourself.
I recommend that you add your Instagram member in case of an error during matches.
Position: the place where you should write what you do, what is your job? There is no need to write it down, if the relationship grows there will be a moment to say it.
Company: Normally users will not wear it, unless they are very proud of their company. Not practicing it avoids the future problems of people who are obsessed with you.
Studies: you can choose the university or center where you studied to have a more complete profile. It also allows Tinder to connect users who have studied in the same place with each other.
Living in: time to put in which city you live. You can also activate the tab “I don’t want my city to be shown”.
Snapchat: You can connect the Bitmoji keyboard from Snapchat to make conversations more fun with these stickers that mimic real situations.
Instagram photos: you can link your Tinder profile to your Instagram account so they can see your latest Instagram photos and contact you on the photo social network.
Spotify Song: Choose your favorite song of your life. It’s one more way to easily connect with new contacts and see if you have things in common.
Favorite Spotify Artists: By linking your Tinder account to your Spotify account, you show them what you listen to, so they’ll know if you have similar musical tastes.
Gender: Male, female, and multiple gender options to make you feel included on Tinder. In the MORE options look for which gender you feel identified with, there are multiple options: transgender, transsexual, transgender man, transgender woman, transgender person, genderqueer, androgynous, questioned gender, pangender, variant gender, bigender and many other options. Remember that you can also activate or deactivate the “Show my gender on profile” option.
Activity settings: You can enable or disable the “Share my activity” button. Inside you can choose which sections to share between photos, bio, studies, work, song or Spotify artists. The activity would be like the Facebook or Instagram timeline. The more they see you, the more they can talk about you.
Check your profile: If you are Tinder Plus you cannot show your age or distance from the other person.
Want to know how they’ll see your Tinder profile? Tap Preview, at the top next to Edit, and make sure you have a good, comprehensive Tinder profile.
Profile settings at Tinder
Shop: You can access the exclusive Tinder features if you subscribe to Tinder Gold or Tinder Plus. If you need them, you can also purchase other boosts and superlikes. Remember that these options are not free, they are paid.
Account settings: Add your phone number and an email to verify your account and make your Tinder profile more protected from possible hackers.
Discovery: add your current position, the maximum distance of the profiles you want to meet, decide if you want to be shown to men, women or everyone, and the age range between 18 and +100 years of the people you want to meet. Also, you can turn on the Global tab to be shown worldwide.
The wider the distance and age range, the more likely you are to match.
Show me on Tinder: If it’s off, your profile isn’t shown to other users but you can still chat with your previous encounters. This is used for vacation periods when you don’t want to meet anyone from the area.
Top Picks : manage Top Picks by showing your profile as a Top candidate to other users who are close to you. If you deactivate the card, you will not have the possibility of being chosen as a Top member and therefore less chance of matches.
Read Confirmations: If you deactivate this option, you will prevent your games from seeing that you have read their messages.
Peak Time: If you disable this button, your profile won’t get priority when there’s a lot of activity during Tinder’s peak time, so you’ll have less chance of being visible.
Data usage: choose when you want to play videos automatically, you can do it with Wifi and mobile data, only with Wifi or never. The best option would be with Wifi only, so you don’t have to spend a lot of data on videos.
Username: You can create a public username of up to 20 characters. This will make it easier for you to share your Tinder web profile.
Notifications: You can activate or deactivate Tinder notifications in your email or push notifications in your mobile with vibration and sound. The notifications you can receive include new games, messages, “like”, “like”, “super likes” and “top picks” messages.
Disconnection and account deletion: at the end of the Tinder settings you will find these two options. You can log out of your profile or delete your account. Then you can download Tinder again and sign up for a new account. If you have logged out only after logging out, you will be able to access your Tinder profile again by logging in.
Check out the Tinder
I’m sure you’ve seen some profiles with the typical blue profile control. You can see it on social networks like Instagram or Facebook, there it means that the person is who he says he is, but it is only for recognized personalities.
On Tinder, you can check your account even if you are only known at home. It’s just a sign that you are the person behind that profile.
How to verify your Tinder account:
- Open Tinder and tap the profile icon
- Click on the gray check mark next to your name / age
- Tap Check your profile to get started
- You will have to take two selfies with the two poses you will see.
- Confirm and click Submit for review.
Prove that you are the same person as your profile by taking two selfies. If you match, you will be verified. This is done using facial recognition technology, comparing the facial geometry of the selfies and your profile photos.
Don’t worry, these selfies are not added to your profile, but are kept for future review and possible impersonation.
4- Tricks to know how to flirt on Tinder
If you decide to join Tinder it is for some reason: to meet new friends, to look for a partner or maybe something more sporadic.
Whatever the goal, what we want when we use Tinder is to get matches. Here are some tips and tricks to help you find new leads:
Make it clear what you are looking for
What are you looking for? A sporadic relationship, a stable relationship, friendship… clarify the profile so that there are no mistakes or misunderstandings in the future. Of course, you will always have the mythical “I’m looking for what comes out”.
Interesting information
Be honest but you don’t have to count your shortcomings in the 500 characters that the app allows you to fill in. Talk about your hobbies or what you are looking for, both in love and in life. What do you like to do in your free time? What music do you listen to? Any trips planned? What do you do for a living?
Choose your best photos
Photos in Tinder need to be sharp and in good resolution so that the face and whole body look good. Natural and without complexes. That through your photos they can know you without having spoken to you. You don’t want to look better or worse than you are.
Fill the Tinder photo album with up to 9 photos. Remember that you can change the order of the photos in Tinder by simply pressing the image and moving it. Among the 9 photos you should upload one in which you look good, one in which you look funny and others in which your hobbies are shown. For example, in an exhibition if you like art, or in sports if you practice it regularly.
Avoid all photos being selective where your face is seen in the foreground without anything else. Also, don’t share photos with friends or family. It’s your Tinder, not theirs.
Photos that are blurry, noisy or scary will cause rejection , but if you look like a model in all of your photos it could also cause rejection because other people think you are unreachable or have a fake profile. Be natural and share some sexy photos too. You can choose the 9 most popular photos, for example, from your Facebook or Instagram profile.
It’s important to choose the first photo , because that’s what people see when your profile appears. I recommend that you change the first photo and try to find out which one is more successful.
A very sexy first photo has a much better chance of success.
Extend the maximum distance
Tinder allows you to search for people between 2 and 160 km. Extend the search distance to meet more people. If it was worth it, wouldn’t you take the subway a few stops to see the love of your life?
Slide very far to the right but don’t go too far
The more people you want to meet, the more chances you have to arrange a meeting. But you should know that there is a limit of “likes” per day which depends on age.
Tinder understands that the older you are, the more purchasing power you have, so you can pay for Tinder Plus or Tinder Gold.
Otherwise you will have to wait 12 hours before you can slide your finger again. In the meantime, you can continue chatting with already open conversations.
Connect your Tinder account to Instagram
Tinder allows a maximum of 9 photos and it is not possible to choose the right ones. If you connect your Instagram account to Tinder, users will be able to see your latest Instagram photos and get to know you better. Plus, they can start following you on Instagram, and who knows if love, or whatever you want, will come sooner to Instagram than to Tinder.
Try both genders
You may never have thought about it, but try. In Settings, choose to meet men and women. It can be for friendship, for something else, or just for fun. You can have feelings with someone about the sex you thought you would never have. Tinder is an application to meet people, without prejudice and with total freedom. Try and decide.
Extend the age range
Prejudice is bad. Don’t get carried away by age and extend the age range because you never know who you will fall in love with. If you don’t like it, it’s as easy as sliding left.
5- Tips for chatting on Tinder
It is important to match the profiles you like, but even more important is to connect in the conversation. Here are some tricks:
How to start a conversation on Tinder
We have the game and now what do we do? Do I speak or wait? It doesn’t matter, let go of pride. If you want to talk to someone, talk. If you want to reply to someone, reply. Don’t be one of those games lost in oblivion.
Choose well.
The more games you have, the less time you can spend on each one individually. Choose well and only those that fit your goal. It is better to have a few matches and spend a lot of time on them in real life rather than a long list of matches that accumulate by collecting dust.
Speak normally
No colder, no more beautiful than in real life. Being in the online world as well as in real life. Don’t get nervous trying to be funny if you’re not. Naturalness.
Don’t give out your number
Chat on Tinder for as long as you need. Don’t give your phone number to the first person you meet. A little common sense to know when the time is right, maybe a little before the first meeting, or after. You can continue talking through the app until you see each other in person.
Take a meeting
It’s time to move from the online to the real world. Several things can happen: it can end well, it can be a normal date, the date fails, or, the second best option, you find yourself in such a surreal situation that you can tell your grandchildren about it. We all have stories like this, you can tell me yours in the comments.
The meeting: at your house, at my house or on the street?
My advice is that the first time you meet in a neutral place. You don’t know the other person, and people are very upset as we see every day on the news. A first meeting is fine. If it goes wrong, well, it’s just dinner.
Excuses to leave if you don’t like your meeting
Your roommates have left the keys at home and you have to go back, they call you for an emergency, you feel bad but not so much that they can accompany you … there are a thousand excuses you can use when you don’t like a meeting and you want to leave. What’s your favorite excuse?
Second meeting?
Many times the meeting went well, you ended up being happy but things don’t go on. Maybe there wasn’t that love story, maybe the pride comes out that the other talks to me first, or maybe you keep talking to other people and you think you are a thunderbolt of Women and Men and vice versa and you want to try dating different people.
There everyone has to remember his goal on Tinder: a stable relationship? sporadic relationships? look for friends? and act accordingly.
6- Tinder Premium: ¿Plus or Gold?
Tinder is a free application, but it also has its premium version, which is two versions: Tinder Plus which was born in 2015 and Tinder Gold which was born in 2017.
Both premium versions offer the same benefits, but Gold offers two more features: knowing who gave you pleasure and searching for Top Picks candidates.
Two options that are worth a lot and for this reason going up to Gold in Tinder is more expensive than Tinder Plus. While Tinder Gold costs from 20 euros per month, Tinder Plus costs from 12 euros per month.
But remember, you can always use Tinder without paying anything.
Features only for Tinder Gold and Tinder Plus:
These features are only for Tinder Premium users, both in Gold and Plus versions:
✈️ Passport: one of the most popular features for users. The passport allows you to like users from all over the world. Just search for a city or position yourself on the map.
For example, you can use Tinder in Italy, but look for a connection with people from the country you are going on vacation to in a few weeks.
To change your location in Tinder Passport you should go to
- Your Tinder profile 👤
- Click on Settings ⚙️
- Go down to Location
- Adding a new location
💚 Unlimited likes: Slide right when you want, there are no limits to meet new people
⚡ ️ 1 free Tinder Boost per month – skip the line and get more matches. Your profile appears 60% more because you become the first profile in your area for 30 minutes.
✅ Check your age and distance data – hide what others can see about you.
🔑 Choose who sees you – shows you only the people you like.
🌟 5 free super pleasures per day: multiply by 3 the chances of finding the matches with the star that everyone wants.
🔄 Unlimited rewinds : go back and go up. If you have inadvertently discarded someone, you can use rewind to undo them.
🚫 Disable Ads: For an ad-free experience.
💛 Find out who you like – only for Tinder Gold. Find matches instantly as if they go straight to the ones you were given. You can also discover your secret admirer.
💎 Slide Top Candidates Over: Tinder Gold Only. You will have full access to the Top Picks candidates in your area.
How to become Tinder Premium (Plus or Gold):
Have these features convinced you and want to pay for a better Tinder experience? Here I explain how you can become Tinder Premium:
- Your Tinder profile 👤
- Click on Settings ⚙️
- Choose your premium plan between Tinder Gold or Tinder Plus
7- Problems using Tinder (and solutions)
Tinder does not work, fails, Tinder has fallen, I have received error 5000, Tinder has fallen … there are many doubts about Tinder and its failures.
Here I explain the most common problems. In case of another error or failure, you can contact Tinder support at this link.
Fake profiles in Tinder
If you want to report a fake or fake profile, you need to submit a request through the app.
You should write the reason for the report (in this case security or privacy) and the details of the fake profile: name, age, bio and photo attaching the screenshots for ease.
Another way to report a fake profile is to scroll down to the bottom of the profile and click on “Report to…” and indicate the reason: inappropriate photos, spam or others to report fake profiles.
I can’t sign in to Tinder
Did you get an app alert with error 5000? Don’t worry because it’s a Tinder server error, it’s not yours.
Wait a bit before returning. While you can make sure you have a good internet connection, switch from Wifi to mobile data or download the latest Tinder update.
You can also fix error 5000 (or error 50000) by giving it the option to delete Tinder (don’t worry, when you go back inside, the conversations and games will not have been deleted) and download it again.
If the problem persists, contact them in the support I told you about above.
8- The most frequent doubts of Tinder, solved
When using Tinder, many questions can arise. Here are the answers to the most frequent ones:
What is Tinder rush hour?
Want to know the rush hour of Tinder? The time when you have more chances to play matches.
While there isn’t a predetermined time frame that works best, it’s true that we can think of some more likely successes.
Would you open the application at work or at home? Here is your answer.
Use Tinder at night or on weekends when people have more free time. Evening is a good time to have those conversations that match or don’t match.
Other applications like Tinder
If you want to download other dating apps like Tinder, you can try Badoo, Lovoo or Meetic. While the functions are virtually all the same, each has its own special character. What’s your favorite dating app?
Download Tinder for free
Tinder is an application for iOS, Android and computer that you can use for free. Although it also has a premium version, with its Gold and Plus plans that have some cool features if you want to get lots of games.
To download Tinder for free on your smartphone you need to go to the App Store or Google Play and search for Tinder. If you prefer to use Tinder online from your computer, you can also do so by logging into Tinder.com.
Once the application is installed on your phone, click on the Tinder icon and log in with Facebook, your phone number or Apple. When you log into Tinder with Facebook, you will be asked for permissions to connect the two social networks. Accept and you are inside.
How to use Tinder online on the web
Tinder offers the ability to use Tinder web from your computer. This is a different way to use this app and an advantage over the competition. While it’s rare to use Tinder web online at first, when you use it for a while you get used to it and it’s just as easy and intuitive as the mobile version.
Change your name to Tinder
Your name and age is the only thing you CANNOT change from your profile. The only solution is to cancel the account and start over.
Yes, you would lose all conversations and matches. If love has not yet arisen, perhaps it would not be bad to start over.
You can inform the people you talk to the most and continue conversations on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram or wherever you want.
Using Tinder without Facebook
To register on Tinder you need to do it through a Facebook account or with a phone number. For me this is one of the successes of the app, because you can see mutual friends or similar tastes before deciding whether to swipe left or right.
If you want to use Tinder without linking it to your Facebook profile, you can create a new Facebook account that you only use to connect to Tinder. Otherwise you have the option of registering with a phone number.
How to retrieve a math in Tinder
Can discarded Tinder matches be recovered? The only option is to use the Rewind button to go back to the last profile, but this is only for Tinder Plus or Gold users. When you discard a profile, it is a permanent action. Maybe if you delete your account and register again it can be deleted, but it’s not safe.
TIP: If you like a profile, before sliding to the right, see if it has its Instagram account online and follow it. You will have it on file forever.
How to cancel a Tinder account
- On the main screen go to the settings wheel.
- Scroll down to the bottom where you will see Delete Account
- Tinder gives you the option to pause your account in case you want people not to see you for a while but still chat with games you already have.
- If you want to delete your profile from Tinder, tap “Delete my account” and that’s it.
What is the minimum age required?
The minimum age to use Tinder is 18 years old. If the app discovers that you are under 18, it blocks you from accessing until you reach the minimum age to use Tinder.
What is 420 in Tinder
Some profiles have the number 420 in their bio. What does 420 mean in Tinder? 420 is a code in cannabis culture that refers to whether you use or love to use marijuana. It was born because some young people in California gathered at 4:20 pm to smoke marijuana in the park.
What is Tinder’s Swipe
Swipe Left and Swipe Right are the two English expressions for swiping left or right typical of Tinder. Swipe has become the word of Tinder, just like Retuit on Twitter or hashtag on Instagram
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