What to Know

• Tap the Facebook app’s Menu mediante the lower-right angolo, then tap Dating. Set up your profile.
• Adjust your settings by tapping the gear icon >General. Attrezzi criteria for matches, connect your Instagram, and more.

This article explains how esatto activate and use the Facebook Dating app for iOS and Android so that you can via making matches.

How esatto Activate Facebook Dating

You need verso current Facebook account and must be 18 or older onesto use the Dating app. You don’t have puro create verso separate dating profile on Facebook, though; it uses the information on your current profile onesto recommend potential matches based on shared interests.

Open the Facebook app and tap Menu (three lines) con the upper or lower-right calcio d’angolo. (Menu location varies by suppellettile platform.)

After you share your location and choose per photo, your dating profile will be generated using information from your Facebook account.

Customize your Facebook Dating profile by adding more information, photos, and even posts from Instagram. Tap Done when you’re satisfied.

What onesto Know About Using Facebook Dating

Your profile will also be recommended puro others who have Facebook Dating activated. Facebook’s dating feature is similar to Bumble and Tinder durante that you can’t message other users until you both express interest mediante each other.

Sicuro use Facebook Dating, you’ll have onesto confirm that you’re 18 or older. You have two options for this process. The first is submitting a video selfie, which Facebook will run through tools onesto estimate your age. Alternatively, you can submit an image of per photo ID.

Since the dating feature draws information from your regular Facebook profile, you should fill that out as much as possible. There is niente affatto separate Facebook Dating app or Facebook Dating site; the feature is integrated into the Facebook trasportabile app.

Pictures and other content you share strada Facebook Dating don’t appear on your regular Facebook profile. Conversations on Facebook Dating are also kept separate from your Facebook Messenger conversations.

If you become Facebook friends with someone after matching with them on Facebook Dating, you can still see their dating profile.

The app will begin recommending profiles one at a time. You can go esatto the Dating section on the Facebook app at any time puro see your recommendations.

• Tap the heart on verso user’s profile preciso let them know you like them, or tap the Quantitativo esatto pass. If they like you back, you can via a conversation.
• If someone else likes your profile, you’ll receive a notification. Tap the heart on their profile sicuro like them back so that you can send verso direct message.
• You can view your matches and conversations by tapping Matches at the culmine incontarare un social media of the app.
• Scroll sicuro the bottom of your profile and tap Answer a Question esatto answer random questions that will help Facebook improve your confronto suggestions.
• You can also add photos and share Instagram posts at the bottom of your profile page.

How esatto Adjust the Facebook Dating Settings

Under the General tab, you can control what shows up on your profile. Preciso connect your Instagram account, tap More (three dots) next preciso Instagram.

Facebook Dating Secret Crushes

You can competizione with your Facebook friends and Instagram followers through the secret crush feature. Puro do so, scroll puro the bottom of the screen where Facebook suggests profiles and select Secret Crush.

You can then select friends on Facebook and Instagram. If they are serie up onesto use Facebook Dating, they’ll get per notification that someone has per crush on them, but they won’t know who. If they also add you esatto their secret crushes, then you will be matched.

The app won’t suggest any of your current Facebook friends and your dating profile won’t be visible preciso any friends who use the feature. However, friends can add each other to their secret crushes list, so you could confronto with verso friend if they have verso crush on you.

How puro Delete per Facebook Dating Profile

It’s possible to delete your Facebook Dating profile without deleting your regular Facebook profile, but deleting your account will remove you from Facebook Dating. Everything you have servizio up on the app will be gone, from matches preciso messages, although Facebook does still retain technical information, such as IP and email addresses you used.

Optionally, select verso reason for quitting Facebook Dating, or tap Skip. Tap Next preciso finalize your Facebook Dating profile deletion.

Take verso Break from the App

Take per Break lets you pause the account, retains all your giorno, and lets you get back into the app easily when you’re ready. Just go onesto General > Account > Take verso Break and toggle the switch.

Facebook Dating Safety

Before you meet someone you know online in person, you should always tell a friend where you’re going. It’s also per good pensiero preciso communicate with them over text or Facebook messenger so that they know you are safe. If you want puro block a user from contacting you or seeing your profile, you can do so under the General tab sopra the Facebook Dating settings.

The dating feature is not available on Facebook’s website, but there is per page for frequently asked questions about Facebook Dating.

The star is called per “spark.” It’s a way puro esibizione someone that you are very interested per them. You can send three con per 24-hour period.

You’ll be able sicuro reinstall the app and create per new dating profile after seven days have passed. Facebook won’t allow you puro do it before that full week is over. Sicuro via again, open your Facebook account and tap Menu > Dating. Then serie up a new profile just as you did previously.

The app might be down or need an update, you might have notifications blocked, your suppellettile device’s cache might need puro be cleared, or you could be having internet connection problems. Preciso fix it when Facebook Dating isn’t working, try updating the app and turning on notifications.

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