How Do You Change Your Email on Tinder?

Open Tinder, go into Settings, scroll to Account Info and tap Email. Enter the new address and follow the instructions to verify it. Until you have confirmed the verification email, treat the change as unfinished.

Here is the route Tinder gives.

1. Open Tinder.
2. Tap the profile icon.
3. Select Settings.
4. Scroll to Account Info, then tap Email.
5. Enter the new address and follow the instructions for email verification.

The last step is the one men skip. Tinder sends a verification email to the new address, and the change is only real once you have opened it and followed it through.

If the verification email does not show up, Tinder points to a short list of causes. Check that you typed the address correctly, and remember that Tinder treats the email field as case sensitive. Look in your spam and promotions folders, where automated mail often lands. If you own several addresses, make sure you are checking the inbox you actually entered.

One more rule catches people out. Tinder only lets an email address be verified on one account at a time. If the address you want is already verified on another Tinder account, most often an old one of yours, it cannot be verified on this one as well.

The email on a dating app is easy to treat as an afterthought. Plenty of men signed up with a work address, a university address or a throwaway, and never thought about it again.

Pick the address you read every day and expect to keep. Avoid anything tied to an employer, because the day you leave that job, you lose the inbox. Avoid anything you set up once and never check, because a verification email sitting there unread does you no good.

If privacy is the reason you want to change it, a personal address that nobody at work sees is a fine choice. Just make sure it is one you will actually open.

A separate address used only for dating apps is also reasonable, as long as you treat it as a real inbox. Set it up on your phone's mail app so its messages show up next to your normal mail. An address you only check by logging into a website once a year is the same as no address at all when you need it in a hurry.

Whatever you choose, write it down somewhere you keep passwords. Future you, locked out on a new phone, will be grateful.

Most of the time you log in with your phone number, so the email feels like it does nothing. It matters on the day your phone number changes.

Tinder's route back in after a new number runs through the email. You tap Log In, choose Trouble Logging In?, and enter the email address on your account. From there you can log in with the new number. If the email on file is an old work address you cannot open anymore, that route is closed, and every conversation on the account is stuck behind it.

So changing your email is not tidying up. It is making sure you can always get back to the women you are talking to.

While you are in the account settings, remember what the verification steps are for. Tinder requires an SMS code when you log in with your phone number, and it recommends never sharing those codes with anyone.

That includes a woman you are chatting with. If a match asks you to read out a code that just arrived on your phone, she is not flirting. Stop replying. a dating coach's rule for any woman he is unsure about is to get her on a phone call or a video call before he gives her more of his time. A real person who wants to meet you will happily take that call.

Changing an email takes two minutes. The hours men lose on dating apps go somewhere else: on weak photos, on sending the same flat opener to everyone, and on letting good conversations drift for days inside the app.

My view is that the photos decide most of what happens on any app, so start there. Lead with a recent, clear picture of your face in good light, and cut the ones you only kept because you had nothing better. Then, once a woman is open to meeting, take her number and set the date by text rather than in the app, where your message sits in a pile with everyone else's. Get those two things right and the email you just updated will mostly be a quiet backup that you never have to use.