It's our goal for daters to spend less time on our app and more time together in-person on dates. We're testing a new experience, Your Type Lately, that helps you shape who you see and how you show up on Hinge so you can focus on connections that feel right for you.
Your Type Lately is a daily set of five profiles shaped by who you've been liking and the traits you've told Hinge you're looking for. Your Type Lately gives daters a new way to focus on a small selection of profiles that we think fit their type.
You can describe who you’re looking for in your own words, and keep or remove the traits we’ve identified as your type. Then, Hinge will do the work of helping to connect you with people we’ve identified as matching those qualities.
Where can I find it?
Currently, Your Type Lately is in testing. If you are part of the test, you’ll see Your Type Lately recommendations under the Standouts tab (the star icon on your navigation bar) by scrolling down. You’ll see 5 profiles with traits we think match your type. You can send a Like or Comment to show you’re interested and initiate a match.
How Does It Work?
Your Type Lately shares recommendations based on patterns in your recent activity and what you tell Hinge you’re looking for. Who you see is shaped by your preferences, Likes and any specific traits you tell us resonate with you, like hobbies, personality, personal values, or other specific qualities you’re looking for.
Each set of daily recommendations is informed by two factors:
- Traits Hinge infers from your profile and activity: We show you people based on patterns in who you’ve been liking recently.
- Traits you add yourself: These are words and phrases you use to describe who you're looking for, like "dog lover" or "extrovert." These appear under “Traits you’re looking for.”
Hinge will infer traits about who you’re looking for based on:
- Your Preferences, including Dealbreakers
- Your Profile Content
- Your Activity on the App including who you send likes to and who you match with
- Traits you add yourself
These inferred traits will appear under Who you’ve been liking.
Hinge won’t infer traits related to body type, race or ethnicity, religion, age, sexual identity, or gender identity. And any dealbreakers are always enforced.
Keep in mind: the traits informing your recommendations reflect what Hinge has inferred about those other daters (e.g., from their profile content, activity, or information they’ve chosen to share about themselves), and may not always be accurate. A recommendation isn't Hinge confirming or guaranteeing that a dater actually has a given trait, so it's worth using your own judgment as you review profiles.
How do I edit the traits Hinge uses to find my type?
To add or update your preferred traits:
- Open the Standouts tab.
- Tap Edit next to "Your type lately."
- Type in the text field or tap Add+ to add a trait. Tap any existing trait to remove it.
Alternatively, you can edit your preferred traits from your Settings page:
- Tap your profile icon in the lower left corner
- Tap Account Settings (gear icon)
- Scroll down to Recommendations
- Tap Your Type Lately
- Type in the text field or tap Add+ to add a trait. Tap any existing trait to remove it.
Trait suggestions will appear as you type. Changes to your traits are reflected in your batch the next day.
Traits you enter, like all user-generated content, should follow our Community Guidelines. To keep Hinge safe and respectful, some traits aren't permitted. If you try to save one, you may see an error message.
Can I edit traits on my own profile?
Yes! There's a separate setting that controls how you appear in other daters' curated batches. To find it:
- Go to Account Settings (gear icon)
- Scroll down to Recommendations
- Tap How You Show Up.
Just like Your Type Lately, Hinge will infer traits about you based on your profile content. These traits may change as you update your profile, but they won’t update based on Likes you might send or receive. You can see, add, edit, or remove traits from “How You Show Up” at any time.
The traits listed in “How You Show Up” are not included on your public profile. If you appear in another dater’s Your Type Lately batch, they will only know that the batch includes potential matches with traits we think match their type–individual traits will not be attributed specifically to you.
Giving Feedback on Your Type Lately
Under your recommendations you’ll have the opportunity to give us feedback! A banner will appear asking: "Are these people your type?"
- Thumbs up lets us know we're on track.
- Thumbs down will allow you to elaborate. You can choose from feedback like: not my physical type, don't have traits I'm looking for, don't fit my dealbreakers, or something else.
If you give a Thumbs down, you can also share feedback in your own words. If you select that the traits were off, we'll ask you to specify which ones.
You can also give feedback on individual recommendations by tapping the Three Dots in the upper right corner of each profile and tapping Give Feedback.
Can I turn this feature off?
Absolutely. To turn off Your Type Lately:
- Go to Account Settings.
- Scroll to the Recommendations section.
- Toggle Your Type Lately off
How is this different from Most Compatible?
Most Compatible surfaces one profile per day at the top of Discover. Your Type Lately gives you a daily set of five profiles, highlights areas you share, and lets you edit those traits to shape who you see there in the future.
How is this different from Standouts?
Standouts is a feed of profiles that are receiving attention on Hinge. Connecting with users in Standouts requires sending a Rose. In Your Type Lately, you can send a regular Like, or a Like with a Comment to show your interest.
Will this affect my Discover feed?
Nope! Your Type Lately and Discover are separate feeds. However, if you send a Like to someone in Discover, they may not appear in Your Type Lately. Conversely, if you send a Like to someone in Your Type Lately, they may not appear in your Discover feed. By that same logic, if you skip a profile in either place, it may not appear in the other.