How Do You Hide Your Active Status on Tinder?

Tinder has two activity labels, and you switch each one off separately in Settings. For the green dot, called Recently Active, turn off Show Activity Status under Recently Active Status. For Online Now, go to the Active Status section and turn Online Now off.

Recently Active is the green dot next to your name. Here is how to hide it.

1. Open Tinder and tap the profile icon.
2. Go to Settings.
3. Scroll down and tap into Recently Active Status.
4. Set the Show Activity Status toggle to off.

Online Now is a separate label with its own switch.

1. Tap the profile icon and go to Settings.
2. Scroll to the Active Status header.
3. Tap Online Now.
4. Turn the status off.

If you want no activity label showing at all, do both. Hiding one leaves the other in place.

It helps to know what you are hiding before you hide it.

The green dot tells people you have been online in the last 24 hours. It appears next to your name for women who are seeing you as a potential match, and Gold and Platinum subscribers may see it in their Likes You grid.

Online Now is tighter. It appears on your profile when Tinder recommends you to someone, and it means you were active in the last two hours.

Both labels show up at the same moment: when a woman is deciding whether to like you. That is who you are hiding from, strangers browsing the app, rather than anyone you know.

There are real reasons to switch these off.

Privacy from people you know. A colleague, an ex or a friend of a friend might turn up in the app from time to time. You may not want them noticing that you are on every evening. Hiding both labels keeps that to yourself.

The labels are getting in your head. Some men start watching their own activity the way they watch a bank balance, worried that looking active reads as desperate. If that is you, turning the labels off removes one small thing to think about.

You are stepping back for a while. If you are cutting down your time on the app, hidden labels mean nobody notices the change.

"Looking active makes me look desperate." Every woman who can see your label is on the same app, often with the same label next to her own name. It is hard for her to read a green dot as neediness.

"Hiding it will help me get shown to more women." Nothing about these settings says that. Hiding a label changes what other people see. It does not change how often you use the app, and that is the part a dating coach thinks the apps respond to. In his experience, an account that is hardly ever opened looks like a man who is not really dating and gets shown to fewer women. Showing up a few times a week does more for you than any label setting.

If your worry is coming across as too eager, the labels are the wrong place to look.

a dating coach's texting advice is clear on where eagerness really shows: replying instantly, every time. If a woman takes six hours to answer and you answer in ten seconds, again and again, you look like a man waiting by his phone for her. That comes across far louder than a green dot. By his account, a gap of an hour to a few hours is normal and reads as someone with a life.

The same goes for double messages. Sending a second message because the first one got no reply looks needy whether your status is showing or hidden. My advice is to leave her every reasonable chance to answer before you write again.

Whether your status shows or not, it is a tiny part of what she sees.

What decides whether she likes you back is your first photo and what you wrote. What decides whether a match becomes a date is the handful of messages after it: short, about her, and moving toward a plan.

a dating coach's complaint about most men's profiles is not that they are ugly. It is that they are boring and sound like every other guy on the app. A man worried about his status label would get far more from rewriting one flat line into something specific about his life. That is the part women actually read.

a dating coach keeps his own app time to two short blocks a day, handling the women closest to a date before anything else. A man who works that way looks the same to a woman whether his labels are on or off. He answers at a normal pace, he is easy to talk to, and he asks her out.