How to Change Your Location on Coffee Meets Bagel

Coffee Meets Bagel uses your phone's general location and does not update it automatically when you travel. To refresh it, open the Me section, tap your photo, tap the pencil icon and open the Details tab. Tap Current city on Android or Location on iOS, then tap Refresh my location. Once it updates, you cannot switch back to a previous location unless you are there again.

1. Go to the Me section and open your profile.
2. Tap your photo, then tap the pencil icon.
3. Open the Details tab.
4. Tap Current city on Android, or Location on iOS.
5. Tap Refresh my location.

The app then takes your phone's general location as it stands and uses that.

Coffee Meets Bagel does not change your location on its own when you travel. It keeps whatever it last recorded until you refresh it yourself.

That cuts both ways. Fly somewhere for a long weekend and the app keeps suggesting people from home. Move across the country and forget to refresh, and your suggestions keep coming from the city you left.

Refreshing only works one way. Once your location updates, you cannot switch back to a previous location unless you are physically there again.

So think before you tap Refresh on a short trip. Your suggestions will come from where you are, and they will stay there until you are home and refresh again. If you have good conversations going at home and only a few days away, it may be better to leave the setting alone.

If you have moved, refresh as soon as you arrive. Then read the rest of your page for anything tied to the old place. A line about your favorite bar in your old neighborhood now describes a man who lives somewhere else.

Being new in town is an easy opener in its own right. A short line about having just moved, and a question about where she likes to get a drink, gives a local woman an easy reason to write back.

Then keep the chats short and pointed toward a plan. In a city where you do not know anyone yet, one drink on the calendar will do more for your weekend than a dozen friendly conversations that never leave the app. a dating coach's habit is to set the date and move the conversation to your phone once she is clearly interested.

Refresh for a trip only if you will be somewhere long enough to actually see someone. A weekend packed with plans probably is not. A work trip with free evenings might be.

If you do refresh, be upfront about it. Say early in the chat that you are in town until a specific day. It saves both of you from planning a date that cannot happen, and a clear end date gives her a reason to say yes sooner rather than later. When you get home, refresh again so your suggestions come from where you live.

Your location decides how far away your dates are, and distance matters more than most men think. a dating coach's first rule for dates from the apps is to meet somewhere near where you live. He tells of a first date that went very well and still led nowhere, because the two of them lived too far apart and ordinary life got in the way of a second one.

So set your location where you actually live, and keep your distance Preference realistic. A woman who can reach you in twenty minutes has an easy path to a second date. A woman ninety minutes away usually stays one nice evening.

The same thinking applies when you pick the venue. Suggest a bar or café near you that you already know, with somewhere else close by in case the evening runs long. coach plans his dates this way on purpose. A good first venue near home, and a second one a short walk away, means a date that goes well has somewhere easy to go next.

Before any trip, settle what is open at home first. If a plan is nearly made with a woman who lives near you, set the day and move her to your phone before you refresh. Your suggestions will move with you, but a date already on the calendar will not.