In Discover, side-scroll the filters bar, tap the filter you want, adjust it and tap Save. You can set a maximum distance, an age range, the genders and relationship types you want to see, and a location. Majestic members get one more option, which shows only people who have been online in the last 7 days.

The steps

  1. Open Discover.
  2. Side-scroll the filters bar.
  3. Tap the filter you want to change.
  4. Adjust it.
  5. Tap Save.

Repeat for each filter you want to set. Your Discover feed then shows people who fit what you chose.

Every filter you can set

Every member gets the same basic set:

  • Distance. A maximum distance from you. The ceiling is far wider than any first date you would actually travel for.
  • Age. The range of ages you want to see.
  • Genders and relationship types. Which of each appear in your feed.
  • Location. The place your feed is built around.

Majestic adds one more: a filter that shows only people who have been online in the last 7 days.

Distance: the setting men get wrong on every dating app

Most men push the distance out when things go quiet, because changing a number feels like doing something. It rarely helps.

A wider radius does not change what anyone sees when they look at you. It only shows the same page to more people, and most of the extra people live too far away for an easy first date. You end up with friendly chats that fade the moment someone suggests a day, because one of you would have to cross half the region on a weeknight.

Set the distance by how far you would happily travel for an ordinary first drink on a weekday evening, and check the real travel time on a map. In a city, that is usually a short trip. In a rural area it is wider, and the answer is to plan the date around the drive, on a weekend afternoon or somewhere between the two of you.

a dating coach's point about online dating is that the whole reason to be on an app is to get a woman off it and onto a date. A filter that fills your feed with women you will never realistically see works against that.

The online-recently filter

If you have Majestic, the filter for people online in the last 7 days is worth switching on.

A woman who has not opened the app in weeks is not going to answer you, however good your first line is. Filtering to recent activity puts your likes where someone is around to see them. It also means that when you do connect, she is more likely to reply while the connection is fresh.

Age range: be honest, then leave some room

Set the range you would genuinely date, not a narrow window around one ideal. A range that is too tight hides women who would have been a good fit and leaves your feed thin.

Be realistic about the other side too. The women you see are setting their own filters. Aim for the range where the women you want would plausibly want you back, and your likes will go where they have a real chance of working.

Using the location filter honestly

The location filter decides which place your feed is built around. For most men, that should simply be where they live.

If you set it somewhere else, for a trip or an upcoming move, be upfront about it on your page. Say when you will be in town, or when you are moving. A woman who knows you arrive next Friday can plan a drink around it. A woman who assumed you lived nearby and finds out otherwise after a week of chatting will feel misled, and the conversation usually ends there.

When the trip is over, set the location back. Otherwise you keep spending likes on a city you have already left.

Check your filters when results change

Filters get set once and then forgotten. Then you move, change jobs, or start spending weekends somewhere else, and the settings you picked months ago are still shaping your feed.

If your feed suddenly feels empty, or full of people who are wrong for you, look at the filters before anything else. And if the filters are sensible and results are still thin, the problem is not who you see. It is what women see when they look at you, starting with your first photo.