Does Hinge Update Your Location When You Travel?

No. Hinge does not update your location automatically, and it does not record where you are each time you log in. When you travel, you change the location yourself. Hinge also suggests checking its availability page first, because being able to set a location somewhere is not the same as the app being available there.

Your phone knows you are in another city. Hinge does not care. It keeps using the location you last set, which for most men on a trip is home.

So you open the app in a hotel room and see the same kind of people you see at home, because that is where Hinge still thinks you are. Nothing is broken. The setting just has not moved.

The same thing works in reverse. Change it for a trip, forget to change it back, and you will keep showing up in a city you left days ago.

There are two routes, and both change the same setting.

From your page: tap your Photo Icon, tap the Pencil Icon, then tap Location under My Vitals. Use the Compass Icon to set where you are right now, or search for a city, neighborhood, address or zip code. Press the back arrow to save.

From your feed: in Discover, tap the sliders icon to open Preferences, then tap My Neighborhood.

The Compass Icon is the easy option once you have landed. Searching is how you set it for a place you have not reached yet.

This is the step men skip. Hinge lets you set a location in places where the app itself is not available. So before a trip, especially abroad, look at Hinge's availability page.

It takes a minute, and it saves you from spending your first evening wondering why nothing is happening.

Setting your location for a trip is a feature Hinge gives you. Using it well means being straight about it.

Put it in the chat early. "In town until Sunday, here for a conference" answers the question she was going to ask, and it makes your suggestion of Thursday sound reasonable instead of rushed. A woman who is not interested in someone visiting can move on, and that saves both of you time. A woman who likes the idea of a visitor now knows exactly what she is saying yes to.

What you should never do is let her think you live there when you do not. That is the version that ends with an awkward drink and a woman who feels misled.

A trip gives you a few days, not a few weeks, so the usual pace does not fit.

Change your location a little before you arrive if you can, so conversations are already going when you land. Say you are visiting in those early messages. Then move faster than you would at home.

a dating coach's gameplan still applies, just compressed. Get a light, flirty back and forth going. Wait until she is clearly engaged. Then trade numbers and suggest a specific evening. He treats the move to the phone as the natural next step once the conversation is working, and on a short trip a named night beats a vague "we should meet up" every time.

Keep the plan simple and close to where you are staying. A drink near your hotel on the one free evening you have is a much easier yes than a dinner across town.

And be realistic about what a few days can hold. One good date on a work trip is a success. Trying to line up three is how a man ends up rushing all of them and enjoying none.

The last step is the one that costs men the most. You get home, you are tired, and you forget.

Now you are showing in a city you left, talking to women you cannot meet, while the women near your home do not see you. Hinge will not fix it, because it never updates the location for you.

Make it part of unpacking. Bag down, open Hinge, tap the Compass Icon, back arrow.

Hinge does not move your location when you travel. Change it yourself through Location under My Vitals or My Neighborhood in Discover. Check the availability page before you go, tell the women you match with that you are visiting, and set it back the day you get home.