How to Turn Off Convo Starters on Hinge

Go into the settings in your Hinge app and switch Convo Starters off. Hinge says that once you opt out, it stops generating tips from your own photos and prompts, and you no longer see tips on other daters' photos and prompts when you like them or match with them. The first message you send becomes entirely yours, which is how it should be anyway.

Hinge's help page on Convo Starters says you can opt out through the settings in your app, and it shows the switch in a screenshot rather than spelling out the menu. You reach your settings from the Gear Icon: tap your Photo Icon, tap the Gear Icon, and find the Convo Starters setting.

Hinge's launch announcement says the same thing in fewer words. The tips are optional, and you can turn the feature on and off in your settings. So switching it off is not a one-way door. If you change your mind, switch it back on.

Three things change.

You stop seeing tips in Discover. When you tap the heart on a photo or prompt, the suggested ideas that some content would show you no longer appear.

You stop seeing tips in fresh chats. Hinge only shows those near the message bar when both of you have the feature on. So turning yours off takes them out of your new chats, for her as well as for you.

Women stop seeing tips about your page. Hinge says tips will no longer be generated on your photos and prompts. A woman who likes one of your photos gets no suggestions drawn from it.

Some men simply write better with nothing in front of them. A tip about her restaurant photo can pull you toward a bland question when your own first thought was funnier.

Some would rather their content was not processed for the feature at all. Hinge says it sends the photos, prompt responses and pronouns from a dater's public page to OpenAI to generate the tips. It says OpenAI cannot use that data to train its models and deletes it after a short period. If you would rather skip that step entirely, opting out stops tips being generated on your content.

And some find the tips turn into a crutch. If you notice you have stopped reading her page because the app already told you what to ask, switching them off sends you back to the part that works. Read what she wrote, and react to it.

There is a case for keeping the feature on, and it is about the women who like you. Hinge said that in early testing, people sent more comments with their likes overall.

A like that arrives with a comment is easier to answer than one that arrives with nothing. If tips drawn from your photos help a woman say something when she likes you, that works in your favor. Weigh that before you switch it off just because you do not use the tips yourself.

With the feature off, the method is the same one good comments have always used.

Pick one specific thing on her page. React to it the way you would out loud. Ask about the story behind a photo, make a playful guess she can confirm or correct, or take the other side of an opinion she wrote. "You seem like someone who has a ranking of every taco place within a mile" is a guess she can argue with. Keep it to a sentence or two.

What you leave out matters just as much. No compliment on her looks, no line you could paste under anyone's photo, and nothing crude. Hinge's Comment Filter can hide likes whose comments contain disrespectful language, and Hinge says the sender is not told.

Hinge built Convo Starters to suggest topics, not to write for you, and it says the feature never sends anything on your behalf. So the choice matters less than it looks.

On or off, the comment that reaches her is the one you typed. Make it specific, make it sound like you, and once the chat is going well, suggest a real day and place. The tips can help you start a conversation. Only you can turn it into a date.