How Do You Turn Off Distance on Tinder?

Hiding your distance is something Tinder gives to subscribers. Tinder says subscribers can hide specific information on their page, such as age and distance. You reach those details by opening the Tinder app or Tinder.com, selecting the profile icon, then choosing the pencil icon or Edit Info. The Maximum Distance slider is a different control, and it does not hide anything.

Men mix these up, and the mix-up wastes an evening.

Hiding your distance. This decides whether women see how far away you are. It lives with the rest of your details under Edit Info, and Tinder offers it to subscribers.

Maximum Distance. This sits under Settings, then Discovery. It decides how far away the women you see can be. It changes the stack you swipe through. It does not change what women see about you.

If your aim is to stop showing your own distance, the slider will not do it. If your aim is to see women who live closer, hiding your distance will not do that either.

1. Open the Tinder app or Tinder.com.
2. Select the profile icon.
3. Choose the pencil icon or Edit Info.
4. Look through your details for the choice to hide your distance.

Tinder says the options on this screen vary by location and may not be available to every user. Your name and age are the only details you cannot edit after the account exists. Hiding age is a separate choice from editing it.

Because Tinder offers the choice to subscribers, check your tier before assuming something is broken.

Under Maximum Distance there is a toggle that decides whether Tinder may show people slightly outside your range. Tinder says it may do that, mostly when you have run out of recommendations inside the range.

Switch the toggle off if you want the stack to stay strictly within your number. Leave it on if you would rather see a few extra women than an empty stack. Neither choice affects what any woman sees about you.

Distance is one of the few details that tells a woman whether a date is practical. A man who lives ten minutes away is a drink after work. A man with a blank could be anywhere.

When the number is gone, she has to guess. Some women will not bother, and you lose a few matches you would otherwise have had. Others will assume you live farther away than you do. A blank is not neutral, so hide it only when you have a reason you would be willing to say out loud.

If the reason is simply that you would prefer women not to see a number, hiding it is a fair choice and you can make it without apology.

If the reason is that you live far from where women tend to look, hiding it rarely helps. It postpones the moment she finds out, and the moment comes anyway, usually in the first few messages.

Then the slider is your tool, not the hide option. Bring the Maximum Distance down and the stack fills with women who are near enough for a quick drink. The trade-off is a smaller stack, and in a quiet area it can run dry. When it does, widen the range a little instead of leaving it empty, or leave the toggle that allows people slightly outside your range switched on.

A closer woman is also an easier date to arrange. A drink after work on a Wednesday is a smaller ask than a trip across town on a Saturday, and a small ask gets a yes more often.

The strongest answer to distance is a plan. Once a chat has some warmth, suggest a day, a place and a time. A man who proposes a specific bar on Thursday has answered "how far are you" without being asked, because he told her where he will be.

If she asks how far away you are, answer in minutes instead of miles. "About twenty minutes from the center" is a fact she can plan around, and it moves the conversation toward where you will meet.

Keep your first messages specific to her page, and bring up meeting sooner than feels natural. A woman who is looking forward to a drink with you does not mind how many miles are involved.