How Do You Give Tinder Location Access on iPhone?

On an iPhone, open the Settings app, scroll down to Tinder, tap Location and choose While Using the App. That is the setting Tinder asks for, and it lets the app see where you are only while it is open. On Android, the path is Settings, then Apps, then Tinder, then Permissions, then Location, and you select Only While Using the App.

The switch lives in your phone's own Settings app, not in the settings inside Tinder.

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Scroll down the list of apps until you reach Tinder.
3. Tap Tinder, then tap Location.
4. Choose While Using the App.

Now open Tinder again. People should start appearing on the swipe screen.

Android keeps the same setting under the app's permissions.

1. Open your phone's Settings app.
2. Scroll to Apps and select Tinder.
3. Tap Permissions, then Location.
4. Select Only While Using the App.

If a menu name on your phone reads a little differently, look for the same four stops in the same order: Apps, Tinder, Permissions, Location.

Tinder needs your location to work at all. Its help pages say that to use Tinder you have to grant access to your device location, and that with all location sharing turned off it cannot show you recommendations.

While Using the App is the sensible middle. The app can see where you are when you have it open, and it cannot the rest of the day. You get a working app without giving it a constant view of where you go.

A few simple things account for most leftover trouble.

You changed the wrong entry. The list in Settings is long, and it is easy to tap the app next to Tinder. Go back and check that the Tinder entry now says While Using the App.

Location is off for the whole phone. The Tinder setting only matters if the phone is sharing location at all. Make sure location is switched on for the phone as a whole, not just for Tinder.

The app has not caught up. Close Tinder fully and open it again so it picks up the change.

If all three check out and the screen is still empty, location is probably not the problem. Look at your other settings before you assume anything about your account.

This is where many men undo the good they just did. They have been locked out for a few days, so they sit down and swipe for an hour to make up for it.

It helps to know why the gap mattered in the first place. a dating coach's view is that an account the app sees opened only now and then looks like a man who is not really dating, and it gets shown to fewer women. The fix for that is showing up steadily from here on, not one long burst.

a dating coach's experience says that is the wrong way round. Small, steady sessions get more out of the apps than long ones. By his account, half an hour a day for ten days beats five hours in one day for matches, even though the time adds up the same.

The urge to catch up also makes men swipe right on nearly everyone. My read is that the apps seem to treat an unselective man as a less attractive one and have little reason to show him the women he wants. His students who stopped right-swiping on everybody and started choosing got better results. So when the screen fills up again, look at each woman properly and like the ones you would genuinely want to take out.

A good rhythm is the one coach uses himself: two short blocks a day, one in the morning and one in the evening. Handle the women closest to a date first. Then message new matches. Swipe for more only when those two jobs are done.

Getting location working puts you back in front of women. It does nothing about how they react when they see you.

If the screen fills up but the likes still do not come back, location was never the real issue. Your lead photo decides whether she stops. The rest of your photos and your written details decide whether she likes you back. Your first few messages decide whether a match becomes a date.

a dating coach adds a warning about the photos that most men miss. You are judged on your worst photo, not your best one. One dark bar shot or a blurry picture with friends drags the whole set down, however good the others are. His test for every photo is whether you can say what it tells her about you. If you cannot, take it out.

That is where the effort pays. Location is the ticket in. What you show once you are in is what gets you dates.