How Long Does Tinder Age Verification Take?

Less than a few hours, according to Tinder. You stay under review until your ID has been verified. Once the review is done, Tinder lets you know, and you can check your result in the app. The fastest way through is sending an accepted ID in a clear picture, so the first review is the only one.

After you submit your ID, your account sits in a review state until the ID has been verified. That is Tinder's own description, and it is worth taking literally. Nothing is wrong with the account. The check has simply not finished yet.

Where Tinder requires the check before you can chat, the review is the thing standing between you and your matches. Everywhere else, it is a step to finish so the prompt stops appearing.

Tinder says it lets you know once your ID has been reviewed, and that you can check your results in the app.

So there is no need to keep resubmitting or to reinstall anything. If a few hours have passed, open Tinder and look for the result there, since that is where Tinder says you can check it.

A few hours is the normal wait. Doubling it is easy, if the first upload fails.

Tinder accepts a driver's license or a passport. It turns away student IDs, resident cards, pension books and temporary driver's licenses. It also rejects IDs that are damaged, covered up or unclear. Any of those means another upload, and another wait.

So before you submit:

• Use a full, current driver's license or your passport.
• Lay it flat on a plain, dark surface, in even light.
• Shoot it straight on, with no glare across the text.
• Keep your fingers off the corners.
• Zoom in and check you can read every line.

Two minutes of care here is the difference between one short wait and two of them.

A few hours of review is a few hours you can spend well. Most men spend it refreshing the app.

Instead, go through the women you have matched with and look properly at their pictures. Find one real detail for each. Maybe it is the mountain she is standing on, the band on her shirt, or the dog that appears in three photos. Then write the first line you will send her, built around that detail.

Keep each one short and easy to answer. "Okay, I need the story behind the goat in your second picture" gives her something fun to reply to. So does "That hike in your last picture looks brutal. Did you make it to the top?" A plain "hey, how's your week" gives her nothing, and it reads like a line you sent to twenty women.

When the check clears, you are not staring at a blank chat box. You have a specific, friendly opener ready for every match, which is exactly what most men never have.

Once you are verified, start with the woman you are most interested in, not the most recent match. Send the line you prepared.

Skip the long story about the check. She does not need to hear about your ID. A short, warm opener about her beats three sentences of apology every time.

When she answers, match her energy. A short, playful reply deserves a short, playful answer, not an essay. Then keep each conversation light and specific. When she is plainly enjoying it, suggest a plan with a named place and a day. a dating coach's view is that the point of texting is to get to the date, and a conversation that drifts for weeks usually ends up nowhere.

If it has simply been longer than a few hours, check for a result in the app before anything else. If the result is a rejection, Tinder gives three reasons. The ID was something other than a license or passport, it showed you under 18, or it was damaged, covered or unclear. Fix whichever applies and submit again.

If you are sure you sent a valid ID and it was turned down in error, Tinder says to contact its team. Do that rather than sending the same document five more times. A short, clear note about what you submitted gets you further than repeated uploads.