How Do You Change the Language on Hinge?

Open Settings in Hinge, go to the Language & Region section, and tap App Language. On an iPhone you then choose a language under Preferred Language. On Android the same setting opens your device's language list, which changes the language for your whole phone, not just Hinge.

1. Open Hinge and go to Settings.
2. Find the Language & Region section.
3. Tap App Language.
4. Choose your language under Preferred Language.

Hinge should then appear in the language you picked.

1. Open Hinge and go to Settings.
2. Find the Language & Region section.
3. Tap App Language.
4. Pick a language from your device's language list.

This is the catch. On Android, the setting opens your phone's own language list, and the choice applies to your whole device. Your phone's menus and your other apps can switch along with Hinge. If you only wanted Hinge in another language, think twice before changing it here.

Hinge lists the languages the app comes in as English, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, French, German, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish and Portuguese. If yours is not among them, pick whichever of those you read most easily.

App Language decides the words Hinge itself uses: the buttons, the menus, the labels. It does not rewrite what a woman wrote about herself, and it does not touch anything you wrote either.

It is also a separate thing from the languages you speak. If you want women to know you speak French and English, that belongs on your page, not in Settings.

If you switch to a language you cannot read by mistake, the way back follows the same steps. Open Settings, find the Language & Region section, tap App Language and choose again. The labels will look unfamiliar for a minute, but their order on the screen stays the same.

Most men asking this question have moved abroad, are staying somewhere for a long stretch, or are meeting women whose first language is not theirs. The menus are the easy part. The conversations are where it counts.

a dating coach's rule for a first message is that it should be about her and give her something to react to, and that rule works in any language. You do not need perfect grammar. You need a line that is clearly written for her and nobody else.

Humor that depends on wordplay rarely survives the crossing, so lean on the kind that does. A playful guess about her, based on a photo or something she wrote, lands in almost any language. "You look like you would take the last slice of pizza and blame someone else" needs no idiom to work.

Keep your sentences short and your words common. A long message is hard work for someone reading in a second language, and lines pushed through a translation app often come out oddly formal, which reads as distant. Answer in whichever language she picks. If she enjoys helping you with hers, let her. Asking how she would say something is an easy, friendly way to keep her talking.

It depends on who you want to meet and how good your second language really is. A clumsy but sincere line in her language tells her you made an effort. A fluent-sounding line you cannot keep up across a dinner table tells her something else once you meet.

A sensible middle path is to write your page in the language you are strongest in and add one short line in hers, something about yourself you could comfortably say out loud. Then let the language she answers in set the tone for everything after.

If you genuinely cannot decide, let the numbers settle it. The profile coaching method is to change one thing at a time and keep a count, so give each approach a fair stretch on its own and keep whichever brings in more conversations.

Text strips out everything that makes a second language easier: your tone, your face, the chance to laugh at your own slip. Across a table, half of what you mean comes through without words.

So do not let a conversation drift for days just because writing it is slow. My advice is to suggest a plan while the chat is still fun. Keep it simple, a coffee or a drink somewhere you both know, and let the conversation in person carry the rest.