What the Spirit area Means on Boo

The Spirit area is where your Boo account sits if you did not turn on location services when you set it up. While you are in it, you are not shown to other people in their daily souls, the people Boo puts in front of each user. Boo itself lists the Spirit area as a reason for getting no likes or messages, and choosing to go back into it on purpose takes Boo Infinity.

From your side, the problem is easy to miss. Nothing about it looks like an error. What changes is what other people see: you are not in their daily souls, so the likes and requests that would normally come in never start.

That is why it confuses men so much. A man in this spot usually assumes his photos are terrible, or that nobody uses Boo in his city, and starts changing things that were never the problem. Boo names the Spirit area as one of the reasons an account gets no likes or messages at all, so it is the first thing to rule out.

Most men land in the Spirit area at sign-up, without meaning to. Boo asks for location access, the phone shows its permission box, and a man who is in a hurry or careful about privacy taps no. That one tap is enough, because the Spirit area is where an account without location services sits.

If you are not sure what you chose, open your phone's settings and look at the location permission for Boo. If it is off, you probably have your answer.

Because the Spirit area is where an account without location services goes, the setting to change is location access for Boo. Turn it on.

Location access also does something useful on its own. It is what lets you set your match filters to local matches, which is the whole point for most men: women close enough to actually meet for a drink this week.

So once location is on, open your match filters and set them to local matches. Then leave everything else alone for a few days. You want to see what the same account does when women can actually see it, before you judge a single photo or line you wrote.

The worst response to silence is changing five things in one afternoon. A man rewrites his answers, swaps every photo and pays for a Boost, all at once. If the real cause was the Spirit area, he never learns that, and he may have thrown out photos that were working fine.

a dating coach's approach to online dating is to test everything, one tweak per round, so you always know which change made the difference. Location comes first because it is a yes or no question with an obvious answer. Settle it, give the app a few days, and only then start testing your photos and your words one piece at a time.

Boo lets you move back into the Spirit area deliberately, and that choice requires Boo Infinity. The effect is the same as the accidental version. You stop appearing in other people's daily souls.

That can suit a man who wants to stop showing up to new people for a while without deleting his account. Maybe a few dates with one woman are going well and you would like to see where that leads before deciding anything. Maybe work is about to eat the next month and you would rather not collect likes you cannot answer.

Just be clear about the cost. Nobody new finds you while you are there. And if you forget you switched it on, you will be back to wondering why the app went quiet.

Being visible only gets you in front of her. What she decides still comes down to the first photo she sees and whatever you have written.

Your first photo should be you alone, face plainly visible, in good light. My rule of thumb is to have a couple of pictures that light and frame your face properly, ideally with a blurred background behind you. A woman's first judgment is physical, and those photos are where she makes it.

Then answer the requests you get quickly and specifically. A woman who sent you a request was interested at the moment she sent it. A reply the same day, about something real on her page, starts the conversation warm. A reply three days later starts it cold, if it starts at all.