Verify Tinder profile: This is how you get the blue tick

1. How does Tinder know I’m in the photos?

2. Does verification increase your chances of a match?

3. More privacy tips

With Tinder, not only is the next flirt or great love waiting for you, but sometimes also fake profiles that want to lure you into a trap. Tinder wants to counteract this phenomenon with the “Verified Profiles” feature. If you verify your profile, a blue tick next to the name will show in the future that you really are the person who can be seen in the pictures.

Tinder used to only offer the function to public figures, but now everyone can authenticate themselves in the app. To verify you, you have to take two selfies of yourself and send them to Tinder.

You can start the verification process as follows:

How does Tinder know I’m in the photos?

According to Tinder, the selfies you send in are analyzed using face recognition and compared with existing profile photos. If the pictures match, your profile will be verified.

According to Tinder, after verification, the geometric data created for the comparison and the geometric face template are deleted. However, the selfies you submit remain stored on the dating app’s servers. To facilitate any necessary re-verification. However, they do not appear in your profile.

Tip: You can easily find out for yourself what data Tinder stores about you. This is how you retrieve your data stored on Tinder.

Does verification increase your chances of a match?

So far, the verification of the profile is voluntary. There is currently no way to display only verified profiles.

It is not known whether the algorithm prefers verified profiles and displays them more frequently or whether users tend to like a verified profile. Your chances of a match should not be reduced by the verification.

More privacy tips

We have summarized further tips for protecting your privacy on Tinder in the linked article.

We’ll also tell you how you can have your profile verified on Tinder’s competitor Bumble.