To make its platform safer and avoid certain embarrassing situations, Tinder is deploying new functions, including an Incognito mode allowing you to go under the radar by limiting embarrassing or burdensome encounters.
AT the occasion of Safer Internet Day (day of the safer Internet; in French), the international day dedicated to the means of protection on the Internet which was held on February 7, Tinder has started rolling out new features to make the dating app safer for everyone, including making it easier for users to control how they interact with others. One of its features is called Incognito mode. Because the platform can count on a large number of members and you can quickly have the impression that everyone is on Tinder… including the people you would prefer to avoid. Ex, colleagues, neighbors, acquaintances, or even parents… Not every meeting is good to take! The latest innovations introduced will fortunately make it possible to avoid any unwanted interaction.
Incognito mode: a solution to avoid embarrassing encounters
Until now, the only way not to be visible to anyone on Tinder was to activate an option allowing users to hide their profile to be visible only to their favorites – matches. The platform will now offer a third option, Incognito mode. With it, members will be able to choose to make their profile visible only to the people they have selected – “liked”, in Franglais jargon. A more than useful function to avoid any awkward situation. But reserved for Tinder+, Gold and Premium members.
Going a step further, users will also be able to block suggested profiles without having to report or match them to do so. Indeed, until now, it was only possible to block people from their personal directory or by making a report. With this function, it is now no longer to see someone definitively in their suggestions – and vice versa. It will arrive on Android and then on iOS during the first quarter of the year.
Other functions are also emerging. One of them makes it easier and quicker to report an offensive post or misbehavior by tapping on the post in question and keeping the pressure on for it to be sent to the content moderation teams. The dating app has also improved its “Are you sure?” and “Does this bother you?”, launched in 2021. The first encourages users to report inappropriate conversations while the second intervenes before sending a message deemed potentially harmful by the platform’s artificial intelligence . They’ve been enhanced to include more terms that Tinder categorizes as harmful or inappropriate, including sexual exploitation and harassment.