How Do You Link Google or Apple Sign-In to Hinge?

Tap your Photo Icon, then the Gear Icon to open Settings, and scroll down to Connected Accounts. Tap the toggle next to Google Account or Apple ID. When the toggle turns purple, that account is linked, and you can use it to log in.

1. Open Hinge and tap your Photo Icon.
2. Tap the Gear Icon to open Settings.
3. Scroll down to Connected Accounts.
4. Tap the toggle next to Google Account or Apple ID.

Purple means linked. That is the whole job. You can link one or both.

Go back to the same screen and tap the same toggle. When it turns gray, that account is disconnected.

Men do this when they are cleaning up old accounts, or when they stop using an iPhone or a particular Gmail address. Before you turn one off, make sure you still have another way in. Unlinking your only working sign-in is how a small tidy-up turns into a locked account.

This is the worry that stops a lot of men from bothering. Hinge's help page is direct about it: linking your Google account only connects your login. It does not connect your Gmail.

So Hinge is not reading your inbox, and nothing in your email shows up anywhere in the app. You are adding a key, not opening a window.

Every Hinge member verifies a mobile number when the account is set up, and Hinge does not let members change that number afterwards. Facebook login has gone away for everyone because of a change on Meta's side. Both of those facts point the same way. The way you log in today is not certain to be the way you log in next year.

A linked Google account or Apple ID gives you another option to try on the day your usual one gives you trouble. Hinge describes it as a way to make logging in easier, and on a bad day that is exactly what you want.

It takes less time to set up than it takes to read this section, and you only feel the benefit once. That one time tends to be the day it matters most.

Linking works both ways. Once Google or Apple can open your Hinge account, anyone who gets into your Google or Apple account can open it too.

Hinge's advice for this case is short. If you sign in with Google or Apple and think that account was accessed, update its password on that platform immediately. Treat the linked account the way you treat your email. Give it a strong password nobody else knows, and use whatever extra sign-in protection that platform offers.

And never read out a login code to anyone. Hinge says not to share the codes it sends, and a woman who asks you for one in a chat is not a woman you are going to meet.

If you are on an iPhone and use your Apple ID for everything, link that. If you live in your Google account, link that. If you are not sure, link both. Either way it is a login setting and nothing more.

What you are choosing is simply which account you are least likely to lose.

Think a few years ahead rather than about today. If there is any chance you will switch from an iPhone to an Android phone, or the other way round, pick the account you would keep through that switch. And skip any address tied to a job. A work Google account disappears the day you leave, and it takes your spare key with it.

A secure login protects the account. It does not protect the conversations inside it, because those still live only in Hinge until you move them.

a dating coach's gameplan puts the move in a specific place. Open with something light, get the flirting going, and wait until she is clearly engaged and giving you as much as you give her. Then trade numbers. In the US and Canada the phone is the natural place to take it. He gives three reasons. The conversation gets more personal, she gets more invested, and the other men messaging her on the app drop out of view.

Link Google or Apple so you can always get into Hinge. Get her number so it matters a lot less if one day you cannot.