How Often Does Tinder Update My Location? How To Update Your Location On Tinder If You Change Your Location?

Tinder is an app that is considered the master of the online dating world. Tinder is the ultimate game-changer when it comes to dating. It was launched to bring ease to the hearts searching for partners. If you are an -introvert and lack face-to-face communication skills, but you still want a date, Tinder is the answer as it provides easy ways for people who cannot find time to meet people in person.

When it comes to selecting a partner, you definitely have to interact with a lot of people before selecting your perfect partner. Tinder can save your time here. Tinder helps you choose people based on similarities between you two as it gives you a lot of options based on your profile information, and then you can either like or dislike them.

Tinder seems easy to use but many people find some Tinder features difficult. For example, about location usage by the app. When you sign up to Tinder and set up a profile, the very next thing Tinder asks you for is access to your location. Now many people find it a breach of their privacy.

A lot of people don't want other people to know where they live. But then when there is no other way to find out a dream date, you would have to compromise on the “location revealing tragedy.” However, it would be a relief for you to know that tinder does not tell your original location. It will give your “1 mile away” or somewhere “2 km away” kind of location information to your admirers on the app, ensuring you don’t catch a real-life stalker. One of the important information among others people need to know before using the app is how often Tinder will update your location and how to change it manually.

You can change the location while using the Tinder App:

When you make an account on Tinder and fill up all your information, the one thing that Tinder will need is access to your location. Tinder cannot work without that. This is because the app links your location with the people geographically close to you. (Within 100 miles from your current location is the ideal distance. So, Tinder uses location to find your matches. There’s no way you can use Tinder without showing your location.

Tinder would need you to allow access to your locations. However, you can allow the app to trace your location only when you are using the app. This would help you keep a low profile when you are traveling. Or if you want people to know a specific location only, or in case you want to find a match in a specific location.

For example, you want to find a match in a location close to your workplace and not in the vicinity of your home. You can do that by opening the app only at your workplace. The app will use the location of your workplace. Once you leave for home, you can close Tinder, in this way, the location visible to the potential matches will be the one where you used the app. That is your workplace.

Change the location by Tinder is the background:

It is important to clear the data in the background if you want the app not to trace your location all the time. In most cell phones, Apps are still active in the background. If we talk about Tinder, it will be able to trace your location and update it if, in case you are changing your actual location.

So it is a worrying factor for the people who are conscious about their Tinder location. It may also depend upon what kind of mobile phone you are using and the power-saving mode. Some features shut down the Apps even if they are open in the background. But to be certain, you should sweep off the Apps in the background if you really don't want Tinder to keep changing your locations.

Using Tinder while traveling:

Tinder and its access to the location is a riddle you need to solve in every aspect. Now the point comes to traveling. If you are traveling and opening the app from time to time, Tinder will obviously update to the recent location. So you will get matches from the different locations throughout your journey. This happens only if you keep opening the app from time to time. Or, as mentioned earlier, the App is running in the background.

There’s also this phenomenon called polling. It is as if the app is spying on you. It will keep a check on your location update through some mechanisms mentioned above and also depending upon the type of phone you are using.

If you get matched during your journey, it would be of no use because at the time you will start chatting, your location would change again and you will be far away from the person. I personally don't think users would want a long-distance relationship after paying for an App like tinder. So to avoid all the chaos, you should prefer not to open the App while traveling and also keep a check if it's still running in the background.

Also, you can totally delete your account during the journey and make a new one after reaching your destination. This would prevent you from all that trouble and also new accounts attract more users.

If you want to change your location on Tinder:

The article, till now, considered all the aspects of Tinder changing your location without your will. But sometimes, people want to change their location by choice. This may be because people don't want to date in their area. Or they are expecting a transfer to some other place in the near future.

Some people are also interested in knowing the culture and norms of a distant place. So they find interest in dating people with different lifestyles. Now how is this possible for a person living in, say New York to date a person from Chicago without going to Chicago. Tinder can offer you that too.

Using Tinder passport:

Tinder passport is a unique feature offered by Tinder and appears when you upgrade to tinder plus. It requires you to upgrade your package by paying money, of course, but this upgrade is worth your money, considering your reason for trying to meet people outside of your region. You can change your location to a number of different places.

The name “passport” itself explains it all. There is also no limit to how many times you can change your location. But if you like a person by using one location and suddenly change to another location, that person will be seeing your first location for the next 24 hours.

PS: Changing the location in your Tinder app:

Tinder proves to be a very helpful app in finding spouses that are close to you. You can easily find a person and set a date without traveling distances to finally meet them in person. But some people find it really troublesome to share their locations, especially the ones who are looking for short-term relationships.

Long story short, Tinder is not a preferred choice for people who are not willing to share their locations.

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