Tap the Profile icon, tap the Settings icon, and scroll to the section labelled Group Hangouts. From there you can hide all Groups completely, so only individual people show up in Discovery. You can also go the other way and highlight Groups more than individual profiles, if you would rather see more of them.

Where to find the setting

Tinder gives Group Hangouts a section of its own in Settings, which makes it quick to change.

Start from the Profile icon. Tap the Settings icon, then scroll down until you see the heading Group Hangouts. The choices for Groups sit together under that heading.

If the section is not there, the feature may not be offered on your account. Tinder runs Group Hangouts in select markets, so many accounts do not see Groups at all.

Hiding Groups versus highlighting them

The two main options do opposite jobs.

Hiding all Groups removes them from Discovery entirely. Every card you see is one person.

Highlighting Groups shows them more than individual profiles. That suits a man who has a Group of his own and wants more Groups to choose from.

The honest way to choose is to look at how you actually spend your weekends. A man who is out with the same four friends every Saturday has a very different answer from a man who mostly goes out alone.

If your situation changes, for instance when a friend suggests starting a Group together, the same section is where you go to change it.

Reasons to hide them

The simplest reason is that you are not in a Group and have no plans to be. In that case, Groups are cards you will pass on every time, and clearing them keeps your attention on the women you might actually take out.

Another is that you prefer dates alone with her. Group plans have real strengths, but a dinner for two is a different evening, and plenty of men would rather go straight to that.

A third is focus. Every Group card asks you to weigh several people and an activity at once, which is slower than deciding on one woman. If your time on the app is limited to ten minutes on the train, spending it on individual women you could actually take out is the better use of it.

Reasons to see more of them

If you and your friends have a Group, more Groups on your screen means more possible evenings out. Highlighting them is the obvious choice.

It also fits a man who comes across best in company. Some men are average across a table and excellent in a group, because their humor and warmth show more when there are other people to bounce off.

If that describes you, it is worth talking two or three friends into forming a Group before you decide to hide them all. The setting is quick to change, but the evenings a good Group can produce are hard to get any other way.

What Groups do that your solo card has to do alone

dating advice explains why group dates work so well for some women. Seeing a man relaxed with his friends answers the quiet question of whether he is a bit strange. It shows he has a social life, and it makes saying yes feel safer.

When you hide Groups and stay in the solo lane, nobody is showing her that for you. Your own page has to stand out and carry that message by itself.

So check what your photos say about your life. One shot with friends, where it is obvious which one is you, does a lot of the work a Group would have done. A set made only of selfies and gym mirrors says the opposite.

Give your own bio something to say

The bio is where you add what the photos cannot. a dating coach's view is that most nice guys write bios that are far too safe. He tells that man to get more polarizing, and he says it tends to bring better results and better follow-through from the women who respond.

In practice, that means one real detail instead of a string of adjectives. "I host the worst karaoke night in the neighborhood" tells her more than "fun, outgoing, loves to laugh", and it hands her an easy first question.

A detail that involves other people pulls double duty here. It gives her something to ask about, and it quietly tells her you have friends and a life outside the app, which is the exact thing a Group card would have shown for you.

Then test what you change. a dating coach's rule for improving results online is to set a baseline, try one thing, and keep it only if it works. The Group setting shapes what you see. Your photos and your bio decide what she sees, and that side of the app is entirely up to you.