How Do You Change Your Age on Hinge?

Tap your Photo Icon, then the Pencil Icon, then tap Age under My Vitals and select your date of birth. Hinge says members can only change their age once, so check the date carefully before you leave the screen.

1. Open Hinge and tap your Photo Icon.
2. Tap the Pencil Icon to edit your page.
3. Under My Vitals, tap Age.
4. Select your date of birth.

Hinge works your age out from the date you pick, so what you are really changing is your birthday.

This is the line in Hinge's help page that matters most. Users can only change their age once.

So treat it as a single shot. Before you confirm, check the day, the month and the year. A slip of the thumb that turns a birthday in March into one in May is the kind of mistake you cannot come back and fix.

It also tells you what the feature is for. It is there to correct a genuine mistake, like the wrong year entered at sign-up, not to be adjusted whenever it suits you.

Some men searching for this are not fixing a typo. They are forty-one, they have noticed women filter by age, and they want to be thirty-seven.

Do not do it. The lie works right up until the one moment it has to work, which is the first date.

Picture it. You have been texting for a week. She walks into the bar expecting a man of thirty-seven and meets a man of forty-one, because that is what your face says. She does the math in the time it takes to sit down. From then on she is not wondering whether she likes you. She is wondering what else you changed.

a dating coach frames your page as your marketing and your texting as your sales. Marketing that overpromises makes the sale harder, not easier. The customer spends the whole conversation looking for the next catch. A woman who agreed to meet the real you arrives relaxed. A woman who agreed to meet a younger version of you arrives and starts checking.

Women on the apps can set an age range for the men they want to see. That is exactly why the number tempts men, and exactly why the true one serves you better.

When your age is real, the women who see you are the women who were looking for a man your age. Their filter already said yes. When your age is wrong, you land in front of women who set their range for someone younger, and you drop out of view for women who wanted someone just like you.

A wrong age does not widen your pool. It swaps a pool that wanted you for one that did not.

If your age feels like the problem, the fix is almost never the number. It is usually the photos.

a dating coach is clear that photos do nearly all the work on a dating app. The men who struggle with their age tend to have photos that fight it: an old picture from ten years ago, a dim bar shot, a gym selfie that reads younger than the rest of the set. Current, well-lit photos of a man clearly living a good life make your age read as part of the appeal. They show her a man who is settled, busy and good company.

Then write prompts that sound like a man with a life. Not a young man pretending, and not an older man apologizing.

She will, sometimes. The answer is the same every time: say it plainly and move on.

If she asks, tell her. If she jokes that you are older than she usually goes for, agree lightly and turn it around. "True. I've had a lot longer to find the good restaurants." A man who is comfortable with his age makes it a non-issue. A man who argues about it makes it the only issue.

Photo Icon, Pencil Icon, Age under My Vitals, then pick your date of birth. You only get one change, so use it to fix a real mistake, check the date twice, and let the true number put you in front of the women who were looking for a man your age.