How Do You Report a Tinder Profile You Already Unmatched?

Use the email route. Tinder offers a contact form for this, and it asks you to include the reason for the report and the exact name, age, bio and photos that appear on the profile, with screenshots being best. If you know the person's location, phone number or email address, include those too.

Once you have unmatched someone, you can no longer open them in the app the usual way, so the in-app report button is out of reach. Tinder's answer is an email route through its contact form.

1. Open Tinder's contact form.
2. Explain that you want to report an account you have already unmatched.
3. Give the reason for the report.
4. Add the details Tinder asks for, listed below.
5. Send it.

Write it so a stranger could find the account without asking you a single follow-up question.

Tinder asks for:

• The reason for the report. What happened, in plain words.
• The exact name and age on the profile. As they appeared, not as you remember them.
• The bio. Word for word if you can.
• The photos. Screenshots are best.
• Anything else you know. The person's location, phone number or email address, if you have them.

The point of all this is to let Tinder pick out one specific account among a huge number of people, many of them with the same first name and a similar age.

For the reason itself, write a few plain sentences: what happened, roughly when, and why it worried you. "She asked me to send money for a plane ticket two days after we matched" tells the team exactly what they are dealing with. "She was a scammer" tells them much less. Stick to what you saw, and leave out guesses about who the person really is.

Tinder says screenshots are best, and it is easy to see why. They are exact, and they leave no doubt about what the profile said.

Memory is not exact. A few days after a bad chat you will remember her name slightly wrong and her age as a guess. A screenshot of the name, age, bio and photos settles which account you mean.

If you are in a region where Tinder blocks screenshots of profiles, write the details down carefully instead, word for word.

Keep whatever you gather in one place, such as a note on your phone with the date you saved it. If Tinder writes back with a question, or you ever need to show someone else what happened, everything is together and nothing depends on your memory.

The easiest moment to gather all this is before you press unmatch. Once the match is gone, getting the details back is much harder.

So when someone makes you uneasy, pause for a minute first. Save the name, age, bio and photos, along with any part of the chat that shows the problem. Then report from inside the app while you still can, and unmatch after. The contact form is your fallback for when you have already moved too fast.

Notice what Tinder treats as enough to single out one account: a name, an age, a bio and a set of photos. As far as a stranger is concerned, that is the whole person.

It is worth sitting with that for a moment, because it is exactly what a woman has to go on when you show up on her screen. She has your first name, your age, a few lines of bio and some photos. From those four things she decides whether you are a man she wants to talk to.

She makes that call quickly, with no chance to ask you anything. Every detail that is unclear, dated or negative counts against you, because she has nothing else to weigh it against.

It is easy to spot what is wrong with somebody else's profile. Turn the same eye on yours.

• Your name and age should be true. A woman who finds out on the date that you took five years off starts the evening distrusting you.
• Your bio should give her something real. One or two specific details about your life and something easy to reply to. A blank bio or a list of complaints wastes the one place she hears your voice.
• Your photos should look like you. Recent, in good light, with a clear lead photo of your face and a couple more that show your actual life.

If a stranger read your four details the way Tinder's team reads a report, would they come away with an accurate and appealing picture of you? If not, those four details are the place to start, and they are the part of online dating you control completely.