How Do You Add Pronouns to Your Hinge Profile?

Tap your photo icon, then tap the pencil icon next to your profile photo. Pronouns sits in the Identity section, alongside gender and sexuality. Choose yours, tap the square next to Visible on Profile to show or hide them, tap the back arrow, and then tap Done to save.

1. Tap your photo icon to open your own page.
2. Tap the pencil icon next to your profile photo to start editing.
3. Scroll to the Identity section. Pronouns is listed there with gender and sexuality.
4. Set your pronouns.
5. Tap the square next to Visible on Profile if you want to change whether they show.
6. Tap the back arrow.
7. Tap Done. Your change is not saved until you do.

The last step is the easy one to miss. If you leave the screen without tapping Done, do not assume your change stuck.

The square next to Visible on Profile is the whole control. Tick it and your pronouns appear on your page. Untick it and they stay hidden.

That means you can fill the field in without showing it, or show it for a while and hide it later. Nothing about the choice is permanent. You decide what is on display.

This is a small decision, and it deserves a small amount of time. Some men show their pronouns and some leave them hidden. Either choice is normal, and neither one decides how a woman reacts to your page.

If you do show them, pick what is true for you and move on. It is a plain fact about you, in the same group as your height or your hometown. It answers a question she might have. It does not need to say anything more than that.

On its own, very little. The small detail fields rarely decide whether a woman likes a man's page.

What decides that is further up. Your first photo is what makes her stop. What she sees in the rest of your photos, and what she reads in your answers, is what makes her like or comment. A detail like pronouns is something she notices once she is already interested, not something that makes her interested.

So if you have spent ten minutes on this field and none on your photos, the time went to the wrong place.

Read the field the same way in reverse. If she has made hers visible, it is a detail she chose to share, like her job or her hometown.

It is not the best place to start a conversation. On Hinge you begin by liking or commenting on something specific she posted, and the best openings come from the parts she put there to be talked about: a photo of her doing something unusual, or an answer with a bit of personality in it. Comment on one of those. If her pronouns come up later, simply use them.

If you are editing your page anyway, spend a few more minutes on the parts that actually earn likes.

Photos first. Your lead photo should show your face clearly, in daylight, looking relaxed. Cut the dim bar shot, the photo from below your chin, and the group picture where she has to guess which one is you. A friend with a phone and a free hour outside will do more for you than any caption.

Then your answers. Most men write answers every woman has read many times. Loves travel, easygoing, looking for my partner in crime. Swap one of them for a specific detail from your actual week that she could picture and ask about. "The best taco truck in the city is two blocks from my office and I will defend it" gives her something to answer. "I love food" does not.

Every detail on your page should be something you would happily talk about over a drink. That goes for your pronouns, your job, your answers and every photo.

The closer the man on the screen is to the man who walks into the bar, the easier the first date is. She is not spending the evening checking what else was different. Fill in what is true, show what you want to show, and put your real effort into the photos and answers she actually looks at.