The Beeline was a list inside Bumble that filled up with women who had swiped right on you while you had not yet swiped on them. Bumble's help center called them Admirers. Because every woman in the list had already said yes, swiping right on one of them gave you an instant match. Bumble's help center describes the same idea as the Liked You tab, which is the name to look for in the app.

What the Beeline did

Normally a match needs two right swipes, hers and yours, and you only find out about hers after you make yours. The Beeline reversed the order. It showed you the women who had already made the first move, so your swipe was the second one and finished the job.

That made it the shortest route to a match that the app offers. You skip the part where you scroll through strangers hoping to land on the ones who would say yes.

Free and paid versions

Bumble's help center said paid Boost or Premium members could open the Beeline, swipe on their Admirers and apply their filters to the list. A free member still saw the Beeline but could not view the Admirers.

The Liked You tab follows the same line. Bumble says that seeing everyone who has liked you takes Premium, and its plan page lists seeing who already liked you as a Premium feature. Premium+ includes everything in Premium. Depending on your subscription level, you see either a grid of profiles or a blurred stack.

How to open Liked You

Tap the heart icon at the bottom of the screen. The women who liked you appear as cards, and a right swipe likes her back. If you do not want to open the list at all, the matches still arrive the normal way when you like someone who already liked you.

Inside the tab, Bumble sorts the same women several ways: Really into you, Notes, Nearby (sorted by distance) and Recently active. Your filters change who appears there, so a narrow age range or a short distance can hide women who liked you.

Anyone who sent you a Note or a SuperSwipe sits at the top of the page. Those women went further than a tap, so start with them. A Note tells you exactly what caught her eye, which gives you your first line before you have typed anything.

What it does not give you

An instant match is only the start. Bumble matches expire when nobody sends a message within 72 hours, so a list full of women who liked you does nothing for you if you let the clock run down. Say hello to the best three or four the day you see them.

It also does not tell you whether you would enjoy meeting her. A like is a reaction to your photos, made in a second. Treat it as an introduction and nothing more.

Bumble also says there is no way to see everyone you have liked or SuperSwiped. Your matches are all in the Chats tab, so look there before you assume a woman vanished.

How men waste it

The first mistake is swiping right on every card because the match is certain. a dating coach, who has coached men on online dating for about twenty years, says apps notice how selective a man is, and that a man who agrees to everyone gets read as less attractive. Whether Bumble weighs your choices in the Liked You list that way is not something Bumble publishes. The habit has a plain cost anyway: you end up with twenty matches you do not want to meet and no time to write to the ones you do.

The second mistake is opening the list in one long evening. My advice is steady effort. In his view, half an hour a day for ten days earns you more from the apps than five hours in one sitting. It also spreads your matches over days, instead of dumping them on one Saturday that you cannot schedule.

The third is a lazy opening line. coach has picked apart Bumble conversations where a woman wrote first and the man answered with a bare "not much" and a compliment about her smile. She already showed interest, and he gave her nothing to answer. Spend thirty seconds on a line about something she wrote or showed.

Whether to pay for it

If you get few likes, there is little in the list to see, and payment will not change what women see when they open your page. Fix the photos and the words first.

If you already get a steady stream of likes and you suspect you are missing some, the paid tier shows you the rest. My rule on paying is to test each feature instead of buying it blind: try it for a short stretch, count the dates it produced, and keep it only if the number justifies the cost. Bumble shows its prices inside the app, so check them there.