Is Feeld Anonymous?

Not fully. Feeld asks you to pick a username that other members will see, and your photos and details are shown to the members the app puts you in front of. What you do get is control over who finds you and who sees the more private parts. Hiding yourself from Discover, Incognito, a hidden section of text, private photos and screenshot protection each cover a different gap.

You can create a Feeld account with an email address, Apple, Facebook, Google or a phone number. Whichever you choose, the setup asks for a username, and that name is what other members see next to your photos.

If you sign in with Facebook, Feeld says it never posts to your Facebook page and never shares anything with your Facebook friends. The login connects the account, and nothing on Facebook announces that you joined.

So the starting point is a username and a set of photos. That is closer to a stage name than to a real name, but it is not hidden. A woman who sees your face in Discover has seen you.

Anyone can use the Hide profile setting. It keeps your page out of Discover, so new people stop finding you. The people you are already connected to can still see your page and keep chatting with you.

This is the setting for a man who wants out of the feed but not out of his conversations. It does nothing about the people who already know you are on the app.

Incognito is a Majestic feature, and it works the other way around. Your profile stays out of other members' Discover until you like someone or send them a Ping first, while you can still browse their profiles.

The trade is reach. You see people, and they only see you once you move. That suits a man who wants to choose carefully and does not want a coworker or a neighbor stumbling on his page by accident.

Your hidden bio is separate from your main bio. Only members you have already liked or Pinged can read it. Everyone else in Discover sees that a hidden bio exists, and nothing about what it says.

Use it for the details you would only tell someone you have decided to talk to. Keep the main bio for what you are happy for any stranger to read.

Majestic members can mark gallery photos as private. Only their connections see them. Everyone else sees a message that the photo is visible to connections only.

That is a useful way to keep a face photo or a more personal picture back until someone has connected with you. It is not a way to hide who you are from the people you meet, and it will not help much if your public photos already show your face.

Screenshot protection is on for every member, and you cannot switch it off. It does not work the same way on both phones.

On Android it blocks screenshots of chats. On iOS it hides the images in a screenshot but does not hide the message text. So if you are on an iPhone and writing something you would not want shown around, assume that the words can be captured even though the pictures cannot.

The safe habit is the old one. Do not type anything into a chat that you would mind seeing quoted back to you.

Verification is optional and earns a Verified badge. Feeld says it does not ask for ID or personal information. The photo and your live selfie go to a third-party provider, Veriff, which confirms that the face in the selfie matches the photo.

That means your face is handled by a company other than Feeld, which is worth knowing before you decide. The upside is that a Verified badge tells careful members the person behind the page is real.

Less than most men think. Women and couples on Feeld are deciding whether you are safe to talk to, and a man with no face and no details gives them nothing to decide on. A page with a clear face photo in daylight, a few honest lines, and a username that is not your handle everywhere else gives them something real.

The cleaner approach is to be visible where it helps you and private where it protects you. Show your face in the first photo. Keep your workplace, your surname and your street out of every field. Use Incognito or Hide profile if you need distance from people you know. Then let the conversation, not the page, carry the personal details.