Go to Settings, tap Edit profile, and switch on the Hide profile toggle under Privacy settings. You drop out of other members' Discover, so nobody new can like you, and Discover goes blank for you too. Your existing connections can still see your profile and keep chatting with you as before.

The steps

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Tap Edit profile.
  3. Under Privacy settings, switch on Hide profile.

To come back, switch the same toggle off.

What hiding changes

Hiding works in both directions. Other members stop seeing you in Discover, so no new woman can come across you or like you. At the same time, you cannot see anyone in Discover yourself.

What it leaves alone is everything you already have. The women you are connected with can still see your page and carry on chatting. Nothing is deleted, and nobody gets a notice that you went quiet.

So hiding is a way to stop new arrivals while you keep the conversations you already have.

Hiding is not the same as incognito

The two settings are easy to mix up, and they do different jobs.

Incognito is a Majestic feature. It keeps you out of other members' Discover while you keep browsing, and a woman sees you once you like her or send her a Ping. It is for looking around privately.

Hiding shuts Discover off altogether, for you and for everyone else. It is for stepping back from new people entirely while you deal with the ones you have.

If you want to keep choosing who to approach, incognito fits. If you want a break from new faces, hiding fits.

Good times to hide

A few situations call for it.

You have met someone worth seeing again, and you do not want new women arriving while you find out where it goes. You have more conversations than you can keep up with, and you want to give the good ones proper attention. Or you have a heavy few weeks ahead and would rather not collect likes you cannot answer.

a dating coach's point about online dating applies here. The reason to be on the app at all is to get a woman off it and onto a date. Hiding is useful when it helps you do that with the women already in front of you. If a conversation is close to a plan, use the quiet to set the plan.

coach aims to get from first message to a woman's number in four to seven messages, with the idea of going out mentioned along the way. Go through your chats with that in mind. The ones that have been friendly for a week with no plan in sight need a nudge toward a drink. The ones that have gone flat can be let go. Hiding gives you room to do this properly, instead of splitting your attention across a stream of new likes.

Use the quiet time on your page

Hiding changes nothing about what women see when you come back. The page you return with is the page you left with.

If you hid because results were poor, this is the time to fix the parts that decide most of it. Start with your first photo. It should show your face clearly, in daylight, with nobody else in the frame. coach lists the easy mistakes: dim photos, photos where you do not look your best, and photos of you standing around in a dull setting. Swap out the weakest ones.

Then rewrite your bio. Replace any line that every man on the app could have written with a few details from your real week, like the thing you do on Saturday mornings or the place you always end up after work. Specific lines give a woman something to reply to.

Coming back

When you are ready, switch Hide profile off and you are back in Discover.

Come back steadily rather than in a rush. Like a handful of women you genuinely want to talk to, answer anyone already waiting on you, and settle into a pace you can keep.

coach describes a good page as something that keeps working while you are not looking, bringing women to you on its own. That only happens when women can see it, so do not stay hidden longer than you need to.