Why Are the Likes Blurred on Badoo?

Because seeing who liked you is a Premium feature. Without Premium, Badoo shows that someone liked you but keeps her photo blurred. Badoo's App Store listing names "See who's already liked you" as one of the things Premium unlocks. The blur isn't a bug, and it doesn't mean your photos are bad.

On the free version you see that likes have arrived, but not who sent them. Alphr's guide to Badoo says the liker's picture is blurred completely, so it's impossible to find out who it is, and you only see the town she's from. The same guide says there's no other way of knowing who liked you than paying for a premium service.

Alphr says your likes sit under the All Connections dropdown at the top of the chat section. Once you can see a woman who liked you and like her back, you have a match and can start talking.

With Premium, the blurred pictures turn into clear ones. Alphr says that instead of blurred pictures, you can see the person who liked you clearly. Badoo's App Store listing also names priority message reading, unlimited Advanced Filters, Invisible Mode and the ability to undo an accidental left swipe.

The listing says the price varies by country and may change without notice, so check the price in the app. It also says you can cancel at any time, and the subscription renews automatically unless you turn off automatic renewal at least 24 hours before the period ends. The listed in-app purchase options include a 7-day Premium plan.

Some sites claim to unblur Badoo likes with a script or a tool. Alphr's guide mentions no route except Premium, so skip them.

Seeing likes arrive costs nothing and tells you how your photos are doing. If new likes show up every day, women are responding to you and the paid view has something to show you. If they barely show up, you've learned that too, and without spending anything.

a dating coach has said that one of the most valuable things a dating app can sell you is the power to pick your own matches, rather than taking whoever the app serves up. Seeing who liked you is exactly that. Every woman in the list has already said yes, so every heart you send from it is a match.

He is just as clear that paying only amplifies what is already happening. Premium is worth a lot if women already like you and worth very little if they do not. The blurred list is the test. Plenty of likes means Premium has something to multiply. A trickle means the money is better spent on new photos first.

If you do pay, start with a short plan and count the results. How many likes did you turn into matches? How many of those matches became conversations, and how many conversations became a plan?

Her like is an invitation, not an order. Men who get access to the list often like back every single woman in it, and then their chats fill up with women they were never going to take out.

Be as picky here as you would be anywhere else. A short list of women you are genuinely excited about beats a long list you will half ignore. Every chat you leave hanging pulls a little attention away from the ones that matter. My advice is to set your bar a little higher online than you would in person. Most people are a notch less striking in person than in their best photos. So a woman you are only lukewarm about in the app will rarely surprise you on the night.

A match from the Likes tab is warm. She picked you before you picked her, so her interest is at its highest the moment you match.

coach writes his first messages quickly, usually within about a minute of opening a woman's page. He finds one thing on her page, turns it into a short line with a little play in it, and sends it. A plain "hey" wastes the warmest match you will get all week, and a long paragraph turns it into homework.

A woman who liked you first has already done half the work. Your first message does not need to win her over. It needs to show her that the man in the photos is fun to talk to.

Pick one specific thing from her page, a trip photo, something she wrote, a hobby, and say something about it that only makes sense for her. A light tease works well here. She already likes you, so a bit of play reads as confidence rather than rudeness. Stop at two lines.

Then make the next two or three messages count. Ask her something she will enjoy answering, react to what she says, and keep your replies about the same length as hers. She picked you. Your job is to make that choice feel right, and quickly.

Getting the match is the easy part. Keeping it going is where most men lose women who already liked them.

coach rarely needs more than a handful of messages, somewhere between four and seven, to go from a match to a number. He does not let a warm chat drift on for days. When you sit down to use the app, handle the women closest to a date first, then reply to everyone else, then send your first messages to new matches. Only then go back to the Likes tab for more.