How Do You Delete a Photo From Your Tinder Profile?

Open the Tinder app or Tinder.com, tap the profile icon, then tap the pencil icon or Edit Info. Photos and Loops are listed among the things you can change from that screen, and a photo you no longer want is removed from there. Before you remove one, make sure another clear photo of your face is already in place, because in many regions Tinder requires at least one and hides your page without it.

1. Open the Tinder app, or sign in at Tinder.com.
2. Tap the profile icon.
3. Tap the pencil icon, or Edit Info.
4. Go to the Photos and Loops section and make your change.

Tinder says the options on this screen can vary by location and might not be available to every user. If a field you read about is missing for you, that is the reason.

Men tend to delete first and think second. They remove the weakest photo, mean to add a better one tomorrow, and forget.

Reverse the order. Add the new photo, check that it sits where you want it, and only then delete the old one. That way your page is never short of a good face photo, and you never have to rebuild a set from scratch late in the evening.

In many regions Tinder requires at least one face photo on your page. If it cannot detect a valid one, Tinder says your page is hidden from other people. You also cannot use features like Likes, Super Likes and Boost until you add a valid face photo.

So the worst mistake here is deleting your only clear face photo and leaving a set of landscapes and group shots. Your page is hidden from other people, so activity stops. If it suddenly dries up after an edit, look at the photos first.

The question often comes with the word "gallery" in it. Tinder's edit screen manages the photos on your Tinder page. The photos on your phone live in your phone's own Photos or Gallery app, which Tinder's edit screen does not manage.

Deleting a photo from Tinder is one action and deleting it from your phone is another. After any change, open the edit screen and read the list. That list is the only one a woman sees.

Start with the photo that costs you the most, not the one you like least.

Any photo where she cannot see your face. A hat, sunglasses, a turned head or a tiny figure on a mountain. a dating coach's advice is that she wants to know what you look like before anything else, and a hidden face answers nothing.

A group photo where she cannot tell which man is you. It may be a great photo. It still gives her a puzzle instead of a reason to like you.

A photo that is generic. A man in a parked car, a mirror selfie in the gym, a face mask pulled down to his chin. Nothing is wrong with it, and nothing about it makes her stop.

If you are unsure about a photo, show it to a friend and ask what it says about you in one sentence. If the answer is "nothing much", it goes.

Delete one at a time and add one good photo for each. A set of four clear photos beats six mixed ones.

Every photo in the set should answer a question she has about you. The first answers what you look like, so it should be a clear, recent shot of your face, and a dating coach says it should be the best one you have. The next answers what your weeks look like, so show a place and something happening. Another answers whether other people enjoy you, so include friends, as long as she can tell which man is you.

If a photo you are keeping answers none of those, it is filler. A set made of five answers to the same question reads as one afternoon. When you delete, decide which question is now unanswered and add the photo that answers it.

While you are on the edit screen, read your bio the way you just read your photos. A line that could sit on any man's page is the written version of a generic photo.

Replace it with something she could ask about. The place you spend Sunday mornings, the one dish you cook well, a habit that is yours. Specific lines are what make a page stand out, and they hand her an easy first message.

Edit one thing at a time. If your activity improves, you will know which change did it.