How Do You Change Your Gender or Orientation on Tinder?

Open Tinder, go to your own page, tap the pencil icon to edit it, and scroll down to Gender or Sexual Orientation. Make your change there, then decide how much of it to show: below your name, hidden completely, or only the parts you are comfortable sharing. Tinder says both appear on your page only if you choose to share them.

Tinder's help article lays out the path.

1. Open the Tinder app.
2. Tap the Profile icon.
3. Tap the pencil icon, or Edit Profile.
4. Scroll down to Gender or Sexual Orientation.
5. Make your change.

That is the whole process. Both fields sit in the same edit screen as the rest of your details, so it takes less than a minute.

Changing the answer is only half of it. While you are editing, Tinder lets you choose how the information appears.

You can display it just below your name. You can hide it completely. Or you can show only the parts you are comfortable with. So a man can fill in both fields for his own accuracy and still decide that neither should be visible to anyone else.

Tinder is explicit that gender and sexual orientation appear on your page only if you choose to share them. Filling them in and publishing them are two separate decisions.

Once you have made your changes, look at the preview in Edit Profile. It shows your page the way other people will see it.

This is worth ten seconds. It is easy to toggle something on while you are editing and forget about it. The preview tells you exactly what sits under your name, so there are no surprises when a woman opens your card.

If you are updating your gender, the options start from three primary categories: Man, Woman or Beyond Binary. You must select at least one. After that, you can add as many specific gender choices as you identify with.

Orientation works differently. Stating a sexual orientation is not necessary, so you can leave it empty if you prefer. Some men would rather not put a label on themselves at all, and that is a perfectly reasonable choice.

Some men treat these fields as a place for a joke. They pick something odd for a laugh, or fill in an answer they think will make them stand out. It rarely lands. A woman scrolling quickly reads it as a man who is not taking the app seriously, and she moves on before she ever reaches your better photos.

Other men leave an old answer in place because they never opened this screen again. If your page says something that is no longer true, the woman you match with starts the conversation with the wrong idea of who you are.

The simple rule is to answer honestly first and then decide what to display. Accuracy costs you nothing here. The only real choice is how much of it you want people to see, and Tinder lets you show all of it, some of it, or none of it.

These details are there to describe you accurately. They help the right people understand who you are, and they save everyone time.

What they do not do is make a weak page strong. No setting in this screen will fix a blurry lead photo, a set of pictures that all look like the same afternoon, or a few lines of text that could belong to anyone. An honest answer here simply means that the women who match with you know what they are matching with.

If you are in the edit screen anyway, use the visit to look at everything else.

Is your first photo a clear, recent shot of your face, alone, in daylight? Do the others show you somewhere real, doing something, in different clothes on different days? Does your text give her one specific, easy thing to reply to?

Those answers decide your results far more than any field on this page. And once you match, the first message you send decides whether a match ever becomes a conversation. A short opener that picks up on something particular to her beats a generic hello every time.