How to Add a Prompt Poll to Your Hinge Profile

Tap your Photo Icon, then the Pencil Icon, and tap the box under Prompt Poll. Keep the prompt Hinge suggests or tap the Pencil icon to browse others, type your three responses, then tap Done on iOS or the back arrow on Android. The steps take a minute. The part worth thinking about is writing three answers she wants to pick from, because on Hinge your prompts do the work a bio does on other apps.

Hinge's help center lists them like this:

1. Tap your Photo Icon.
2. Tap the Pencil Icon.
3. Tap the box under Prompt Poll.
4. Look at the prompt Hinge presents and decide whether to keep it. To browse other prompts, tap the Pencil icon.
5. Type your three Prompt Poll responses.
6. When you are happy with them, tap Done if you use iOS, or the back arrow if you use Android.

Once it is up, anyone viewing your page can send a Like or a Rose to the specific answer they would pick.

Take a moment on step four. The prompt Hinge puts in front of you first is a suggestion, and tapping the pencil shows you the others.

Pick one where three answers come to you easily, answers you would genuinely enjoy talking about. If you have to strain to fill the third slot, the prompt is wrong for you. Go back and pick another.

A poll only works when the choice means something. Three answers that are really the same answer give her nothing to decide.

A good spread is one sensible option, one a bit absurd, and one that says something specific about your life. Say your three answers are ideas for a first date. "A long walk and a coffee" is the sensible one. "A go-kart race where the loser pays for tacos" is the absurd one. "The bookshop near my place with a cat and a very strict owner" is the specific one. Whichever she picks, you have something to say back.

Keep them short. She should be able to read all three in a glance, the same way she reads the rest of your page.

The advantage of a poll is that you know in advance what she might choose. Use that.

For each answer, think of the line you would send if she picked it. A tease, a question, or a follow-up about why. If one of your answers leaves you with nothing, swap it now, before a woman picks it and you have to improvise.

This is also where a poll pays off once you are talking. Her pick is a small piece of information about her. Reacting to it with a light tease is a far better start than "Hey, how's it going?"

A poll is the easy, low-effort part of your page. It works best next to written answers that show how you think, and photos that show what your life actually looks like.

If your written prompts are vague, fix those first. A fun poll on a page full of "I love travel and good food" still leaves her with little idea of who you are.

Check that the three options fit the man in your photos, too. If your pictures are all trail runs and camping trips and your poll is three kinds of cocktail bar, the page stops adding up.

If your poll draws no likes for a week or two, swap one answer at a time and see what changes. Hinge lets you change your prompts as often as you like, so there is no reason to leave up a poll that is not working.

Update it when your life gives you better material, too. A new obsession, a recent trip, an opinion you have started defending at dinner: those make fresher options than anything you wrote on the day you joined.