How Do You Block Someone You Know on Hinge?

Go to Settings and tap Block List. From there you can Sync Contacts and pick people from your phone, or add someone's phone number or email address by hand. Hinge does not notify the people you block, and it leaves your existing matches and messages alone. The block only works if the number or email you enter is the one they signed up with.

1. Open Settings.
2. Tap Block List.
3. Choose how to add people. Sync Contacts lets you pick them straight from your phone. The manual option lets you type in a phone number or an email address.
4. Add the people you want to avoid.

That is all there is to it. Nobody on your list hears about it, because Hinge does not notify blocked contacts.

There is one catch. The block only works if the phone number or email you add matches the one that person used to sign up for Hinge.

Syncing contacts is the easier route, since you pick from numbers already saved in your phone. But if your ex changed her number after you saved it, the old one in your phone may not catch her. The same goes for a coworker whose work email you have but who signed up with a personal one.

If it matters a lot, add every number and email you have for that person. It costs nothing, and it gives the block the best chance of working.

Hinge says existing matches and messages are not affected by the Block List.

So this is a tool for the future, not for cleaning up the past. If the person you want to avoid is already in your matches, adding them to the Block List will not remove that conversation. For that, unmatch them or, if they did something that breaks Hinge's rules, report them.

Think of the Block List as a filter on who you might run into. It is at its best before any contact has happened.

So if an ex or a coworker is already sitting in your matches, do both jobs. Unmatch to close the conversation you have, and add them to the Block List to cover the future. Either one on its own leaves half the gap open.

The Block List is for people from your real life, and the reasons are usually practical rather than dramatic.

A coworker is the obvious one. Seeing each other's pages on a dating app is awkward for both of you, and it can follow you back into the office. Your sister's best friend, your boss, the neighbor you share a hallway with, and a client all fall into the same group. None of them did anything wrong. You would simply rather not appear in each other's feeds.

Being on a dating app is nothing to be embarrassed about. Keeping your dating life out of your working life is still sensible, though, and the Block List makes that quiet and easy.

If there is one person almost every man should consider adding, it is an ex he is trying to get over.

GirlsChase's Hector Castillo is blunt about this. When you are genuinely done with a woman, block her everywhere you can and put as many barriers between you as possible. His reasoning is that one glimpse is enough to set you back. You see her, you start rereading old messages from when she liked you, and before long you have texted her and undone weeks of progress.

Hector draws one distinction worth keeping. Blocking is for when you are truly finished. If you only want some distance and secretly hope she comes back, he says a block is the wrong tool, because it shuts the door you are hoping she will knock on. Be honest with yourself about which one you are doing before you add her.

If you really are done, seeing her page on Hinge, or wondering whether she has seen yours, is exactly that kind of glimpse. Adding her to the Block List, with every number and email you have for her, cuts that chance right down. It is not about punishing her. It is about protecting your own recovery so that you can put your full attention on the women you are meeting now.

The Block List works best when it holds the handful of people you genuinely should not match with.

It is not a place to hide from every woman you once went on a date with, and it does not need your whole contact book. Add the ex, the coworkers, and the people whose presence would make the app awkward. Leave everyone else, and get on with using the app to meet someone new.