Why Can You Not See Who Liked You on Bumble?

It usually comes down to one of two things. Bumble says you need Premium to see everyone who has liked you. And if a woman who liked you does not meet the filters you set, even though you meet hers, she may not show up in the Liked You tab. Bumble's suggestion for that case is to relax your filters and see whether she appears.

The Liked You tab opens from the heart icon at the bottom of the screen. Bumble says you need to upgrade to Premium to see everyone who has liked you. It adds that, depending on your subscription level, the tab shows you either a grid or a blurred stack.

Premium+ includes everything in Premium, so it covers this too. If you are on neither, you will not see everyone who liked you, however many likes come in.

You can look over the plans from your profile tab in the app.

This is the version that confuses men most. Your phone says someone liked you. You open the tab. She is not there.

Bumble's explanation is simple. She may not meet the filters you have set, even though you meet hers. Her settings let her see you and like you. Your settings keep her out of your view.

Here is how that looks in practice. Your age range runs from 25 to 32. She is 34, and her range runs from 28 to 40. You fit her filter, so she sees you, likes you, and you get the notification. She does not fit yours, so the Liked You tab leaves her out.

Bumble's fix is to adjust or relax your filters and see whether she appears.

The same thing happens on a larger scale. Bumble's filter page warns that every extra filter tends to shrink what you see, both in the People tab and, for Premium subscribers, in Liked You.

So a man who pays for Premium and then stacks Advanced Filters on top can end up with a thin Liked You tab and no idea why. Every filter is doing what he asked. Together they hide women who already said yes to him.

Before you change anything for good, run a quick test.

Open your filters and widen one setting a little. Two years on your age range is a good start, or a few more miles if you have a distance filter. Go back to the Liked You tab and see who turns up. If the woman from the notification appears, you have found the cause.

Then decide whether to keep the wider setting. If the women who reappeared are ones you would happily take out, keep it. If they are all women you would pass on anyway, put the filter back. It was doing its job.

a dating coach describes the same problem from the other side. A woman sets her age limit, and a man she would have liked in person never reaches her screen. Neither of them ever finds out what they missed.

Your filters can do that to you. Some are real dealbreakers, and those should stay. Others are guesses you made on the first night, such as a tight age band, a short distance, or an interest you ticked because it was there. Read your filters back as one sentence and ask which parts you would genuinely walk away over. The rest are candidates to loosen.

A good rule is to filter on things that would end a date, not on things that would only make you hesitate for a second.

Some filters earn their place. If you would never date a smoker, filtering for non-smokers saves both of you time. Just make sure every filter you keep is one you would stand behind with a great woman sitting on the other side of it.

When she appears, look at her properly before you swipe. If you would enjoy a drink with her, swipe right and you match, because she already liked you.

After that, each of you has one opening message to send, and yours has to go out within 72 hours of the match. Write something about her, not a generic greeting. Ask about a place in one of her pictures, or pick up something she wrote, and finish with a question that takes her five seconds to answer.

If the chat goes well for a few messages, suggest meeting. See if she likes the idea before you fix a time, then agree the place together.