What Is the Your Type Card on Tinder?

Your Type is a short description of the kind of person you usually Like on Tinder, shown on a shareable card. Tinder builds it once you have Liked 10 people and refreshes it after every 10 Likes, and you find it by tapping the Discovery Settings button on the Discovery screen. It is available on Android and iOS in select markets.

Tinder says Your Type looks at the last 10 profiles you Liked. From those, it draws on things like relationship goals, interests, zodiac signs, pets, education level, bio text and photos.

It also lists what it never uses. Age, exact location, school, employer, race or ethnicity, religion and politics are all left out.

The result is a short line or two describing the person you tend to go for, shown on a card you can share, in one of six colours. It is not a ranking and it is not a setting. It is a summary of your recent choices, written back to you.

Open the Discovery screen and tap the Discovery Settings button. That is where the card lives.

Because it only reads your last 10 Likes and refreshes every 10 Likes after that, it is a rolling snapshot rather than a verdict. Swipe differently for a few days and the card will describe a different person. That makes it more useful than it first looks, because it reflects what you have been doing lately, not what you think you want.

Most men swipe on autopilot. The card is a rare chance to see what that autopilot is actually choosing.

Ask one plain question: is this the woman I want to be dating? If you want something serious and your card describes someone whose relationship goals are clearly casual, your thumb and your plans are pointing in different directions. If the card is vague because your Likes are scattered across every kind of person, that is worth noticing too.

Neither is a moral failing. It just explains a common complaint. Men who Like almost everyone end up with matches they do not want to message, and conversations that go nowhere because neither side was that interested to begin with.

The fix is simple and it costs you nothing but a little attention.

Before you Like someone, look past the first photo. Read what she has written. Check her relationship goals and interests. Ask whether you would actually enjoy a first drink with this woman, and whether you would still say yes on a wet Tuesday.

You will Like fewer people. The ones you do match with will be women you want to talk to, which makes every first message easier to write, because you have genuine curiosity about her.

After another 10 Likes, check the card again. If it now describes someone you would be glad to meet, your swiping is doing its job.

Here is the more useful way to read Your Type. Every woman using the feature has a card of her own, built from the same kinds of detail: relationship goals, interests, the words people write about themselves, and their photos.

So ask what your own page gives her to work with. If your interests are blank and your words are a list of generic labels, you are hard to recognise as anyone's type. Fill in the fields honestly. Write something specific about how you actually spend your time. Choose photos that show that life rather than just your face.

A woman whose type is a man who cooks, climbs or travels can only spot you if your page makes that obvious.

The card is designed to be shared, and it can be a light bit of fun with friends. It can even start a conversation if someone asks what yours says.

Just do not mistake it for insight into who you should be with. It is a summary of ten recent Likes, nothing more. The useful part is the question it forces: are you choosing the women you actually want, and are you showing them enough to choose you back?