How to Get Verified on Feeld

Pick one of your public photos, take a live selfie, and Feeld's verification provider, Veriff, checks that the two match. Once you are approved, a verified badge appears next to your name and on the photo you verified. Feeld does not ask for ID, and if you later hide or remove that photo you will have to verify again.

1. Open Settings.
2. Tap Edit profile.
3. Tap Edit photos.
4. Tap Get verified.
5. Choose one of your public profile photos.
6. Take a live selfie when the app asks for one.

Veriff compares the selfie with the photo you chose. If they match, the badge appears. There are no documents to dig out, because Feeld does not ask for ID. All you need is a good photo and a few minutes in decent light.

The whole check is a comparison, so the photo you choose decides most of the result.

Choose a well-lit photo where you are the only person, facing forward, with your whole face clear. That means no sunglasses, no hat pulled low and no heavy filter. A photo from years ago, or one taken at an odd angle, makes the match harder than it needs to be.

This is also a good test of your photos in general. If you struggle to find one clear, recent, solo shot of your face, women scrolling past you have the same problem.

Take it somewhere with good light on your face. A window in daytime works well. Avoid a dark room, and avoid light coming from behind you, which puts your face in shadow.

Hold the phone steady at face height and look straight at it. Keep your expression close to the one in the photo you chose. The closer the two images are, the easier the match.

A failed check almost always means the selfie and the photo did not match closely enough. It is not a judgement on you.

Before you try again, change something. Pick a clearer photo where you are alone and facing forward, move somewhere brighter, and take off anything covering your face. Do not keep retaking the same selfie in the same spot. Feeld limits how many attempts you get, and once you reach the maximum you cannot try again, so each one should be a genuine improvement on the last.

a dating coach breaks down what a woman needs to feel before she agrees to meet a man from an app: attraction, comfort and commitment. The badge helps with comfort.

Online dating is ordinary now, so women need less reassurance than they once did. They still want to know you are a real, normal person and not someone pretending. A verified badge answers that before she has to wonder. It tells her the man in the photos is the man she would be meeting.

It will not make her like you. It does remove one reason to hesitate, and when a woman is deciding whether to answer a stranger, one less reason to hesitate counts.

The badge is tied to the photo you verified. If you hide or remove that photo, you have to verify again.

So verify with a photo you plan to keep. If you are about to rework your photos, do that first, then verify with one of the photos you are keeping. It saves you doing the whole thing twice.

A verified badge on a weak page is still a weak page. It proves you are real. It does not make her want to write to you.

What does that is the rest of what she sees. You need a first photo that shows you clearly on a good day, a few more that show your actual life, and some words that give her something specific to reply to.

Once she connects, keep things moving. coach gets from first message to her number in four to seven messages, and he raises the idea of going out early so the plan never comes out of nowhere. Verification takes a few minutes, costs nothing and only helps, which is more than most things on the dating apps can say.