How to Block or Unblock Someone on Hily

In a chat, tap the block button in the top right corner and choose Block only. If you have not chatted, scroll down her page, tap Block/Report and choose No reason/block only. To unblock, go to Settings, then Blocked accounts, and tap the X next to her name, knowing that unblocking means losing that match.

1. Open the chat.
2. Tap the block button in the top right corner.
3. Choose Block only.

That is all it takes. You will not hear from her on Hily again unless you decide to unblock her.

If you have never chatted, you can block from her page instead.

1. Open her page and scroll down.
2. Tap Block/Report.
3. Choose No reason/block only.

This is handy when you recognize someone you would rather not see on the app at all, such as a coworker, a neighbor or an ex.

Hily gives you the option to add a reason, and it asks you to be careful with it. Its own warning is that leaving too many reports with reasons like "too old" or "just don't like" can get your own account banned.

The logic is simple. A report is a claim that someone broke the rules. Not finding a woman attractive, or not enjoying the chat, is not a rule break. It is just a mismatch, and Block only covers that perfectly.

So save the reasons for something real, the kind of thing any dating app's rules forbid, such as harassment or an account that is plainly fake. In those cases, reporting helps everyone. The rest of the time, block quietly and move on.

1. Go to your Profile.
2. Open Settings.
3. Tap Blocked accounts.
4. Tap the X next to the person you want to unblock.

Hily is clear that unblocking means losing that match. So do not expect to pick the chat up where it stopped. If you blocked her in a flash of annoyance and now wish you had not, unblocking will not bring the conversation back.

Reports work in both directions, and that is worth thinking about.

a dating coach has pointed out that if a man offends women to the point that they complain about him and unmatch him, the app's algorithm does not like it. His phrase for what happens next is getting leveled down, meaning the app quietly shows you to fewer women. Apps want their members, and especially their most attractive members, to have a good time. A man who generates complaints works against that.

Read the Hily warning with that in mind. Filing weak reports makes you look like a problem. So does being the kind of match that other people report. Both are avoidable.

Most blocks are the end of a chat that went wrong. Plenty of those never needed to go wrong.

Keep your early messages light and friendly. My approach to first messages is to make them about her, playful and easy to answer. Teasing works, but read the room. If she is not playing along, dial it back instead of pushing harder.

Keep your own time in mind too. coach answers his dating apps in one or two set sessions a day rather than all day long. A chat that keeps dragging you into arguments steals that time from the women who are glad to hear from you. That is the clearest sign a conversation is not worth saving.

If a chat turns sour, you do not have to win it. You can simply stop replying, or unmatch. coach is relaxed about this. If a match turns out not to be someone you are interested in, he says to just unmatch, because it is not a big deal. Block is for when you want her gone from the app entirely, not for every conversation that fizzles.

None of this means you should hesitate when blocking is the answer.

If someone is rude, pushy, asks you for money or makes you uneasy, block them. If it is serious, report them with a real reason.

You do not owe a rude stranger a closing argument or an explanation. Block only exists so you can leave quietly, and leaving quietly is almost always the best look. Your time on the app is for women you actually want to take out, and every chat that drains you is time taken from one of them.