Tinder 101

Go to App Store and write in Tinder in the search field. Tap Get and wait for the app to download and install to your phone. When it’s done, tap Open.

Now you can choose between logging in with Facebook, and you can read more about this in the text above this step, and between logging in with phone number. With privacy in mind and the scares of sharing too much information right from the beginning, we chose the latter, to log in with phone number.

Now we have to write in our phone number with country code (area code), as shown in the image. For the purposes of this how-to, we chose Croatia from the drop-down menu, +385.

Write in your phone number in the requested format, for us it’s (+385) 9X XXXXXXX, and tap Continue.

Next step you’ll get a text message with the activation code, then write it in the My code is field.

If you haven’t received a text with the code, tap Resend.

By confirming the code you continue to create your Tinder account. Tap Get Started, or if you wish to Log in with Facebook and your account to withdraw all the information it needs from it, tap Log in with Facebook.

In this step, you will have to set up a Tinder password that has to contain at least one letter, one number, and eight characters. Be sure to remember your password and never share it with anyone so your account is secure and only you can access it.

Write in your password and tap Continue.

Now you get to write in your name. This name you choose to write in will appear in Tinder. Then tap Continue.

Write in your birthday and then tap Continue, tap a gender, woman or a man and tap Continue.

Now you can write in the name of your College, whether you have graduated or are attending, and you can skip this step if you’d rather not state this about yourself.

And now you get to pick probably the most important part of this app, your profile picture. Tap + and add a photo you want to be shown on Tinder and confirm by tapping Done.

First step when you enter your new app is probably a screen as shown in the image.

In the upper left part of the screen, you can find your profile and all the profile settings and appearance.

In the right part of the screen, you can find all the messages you have exchanged with other users. Note that you can exchange messages only with the users who have liked your profile and who you’ve liked back, or with the ones you’ve “matched”, to be more specific.

As soon as Tinder locates your location, it will give you a bunch of user profiles for you to swipe. If by any chance Tinder cannot locate you, check if you have your Location Services turned on.

By tapping the little man icon in the upper left part of the screen, you get to your Tinder profile. Tap Settings to edit all the settings, and by tapping Edit info (About me) you can edit your profile information.

Here you can edit your username, set up a maximum distance radius in which Tinder will search for users to match with you, for example, 10 km or more. Play a little with this setting, because the bigger the radius you allow (Maximum distance), the more profiles you get to swipe from.

Here you can also pick a gender you’re interested in, to show Tinder whether you’re searching for men or women to match with, and age range that is acceptable for you, for example, 18-34.

In the Edit Info screen, you can add stuff like your job title, company, education, etc., and you can connect Snapchat and Instagram account with your Tinder profile.

In the Messages tab, you have the entire message history with all your matches and the matches list. Anyone who’s liked you and you’ve liked him back will appear here and you’ll be able to send him or her a message.

In the Feed tab, you can see all the profile activities of your matches.

As we have mentioned before, swiping to left means we’re not interested, and swiping to right means we are interested and it’s a like.

Swiping up stands for a super like.

By tapping the diamond button we enter the Top Picks, that are made of featured profiles of the day chosen for you.

You can like by using the icons below the profile as well, as shown in the image.

You can find your Matches in the messages tab, as we have mentioned before, in the upper right part of the screen.

If you want to, you can also unmatch, as shown in the image.

Also, here you will see everyone who liked your profile, so you can review whether you like them as well or not.