What sicuro Know
- Tap the Facebook app’s Menu con the lower-right corner, then tap Dating. Set up your profile.
- Adjust your settings by tapping the gear icon >General. Serie criteria for matches, connect your Instagram, and more.
This article explains how onesto activate and use the Facebook Dating app for iOS and Android so that you can via making matches.
How sicuro Activate Facebook Dating
You need verso current Facebook account and must be 18 or older to use the Dating app. You don’t have to create a separate dating profile on Facebook, though; it uses the information on your current profile onesto recommend potential matches based on shared interests.
Open the Facebook app and tap Menu (three lines) sopra the upper or lower-right calcio d’angolo. (Menu location varies by mobilio platform.)
After you share your location and choose verso photo, your dating profile will be generated using information from your Facebook account.
Customize your Facebook Dating profile by adding more information, photos, and even posts from Instagram. Tap Done when you’re satisfied.
What to Know About Using Facebook Dating
Your profile will also be recommended to others who have Facebook Dating activated. Facebook’s dating feature is similar to Bumble and Tinder mediante that you can’t message other users until you both express interest mediante 
each other.
To use Facebook Dating, you’ll have puro confirm that you’re 18 or older. You have two options for this process. The first is submitting verso video selfie, which Facebook will run through tools puro estimate your age. Alternatively, you can submit an image of verso photo ID.
Since the dating feature draws information from your regular Facebook profile, you should fill that out as much as possible. There is per niente separate Facebook Dating app or Facebook Dating site; the feature is integrated into the Facebook amovibile app.
Pictures and other content you share coraggio Facebook Dating don’t appear on your regular Facebook profile. Conversations on Facebook Dating are also kept separate from your Facebook Messenger conversations.
If you become Facebook friends with someone after matching with them on Facebook Dating, you can still see their dating profile.
The app will begin recommending profiles one at a time. You can go sicuro the Dating section on the Facebook app at any time to see your recommendations.
- Tap the heart on per user’s profile esatto let them know you like them, or tap the Quantitativo preciso pass. If they like you back, you can start per conversation.
- If someone else likes your profile, you’ll receive per notification. Tap the heart on their profile sicuro like them back so that you can send per direct message.
- You can view your matches and conversations by tapping Matches at the apice of the app.
- Scroll esatto the bottom of your profile and tap Answer per Question preciso answer random questions that will help Facebook improve your gara suggestions.
- You can also add photos and share Instagram posts at the bottom of your profile page.
How preciso Adjust the Facebook Dating Settings
Under the General tab, you can control what shows up on your profile. Puro connect your Instagram account, tap More (three dots) next sicuro Instagram.
Facebook Dating Secret Crushes
You can confronto with your Facebook friends and Instagram followers through the secret crush feature. Sicuro do so, scroll puro the bottom of the screen where Facebook suggests profiles and select Secret Crush.
You can then select friends on Facebook and Instagram. If they are batteria up puro use Facebook Dating, they’ll get verso notification that someone has a crush on them, but they won’t know who. If they also add you esatto their secret crushes, then you will be matched.
The app won’t suggest any of your current Facebook friends and your dating profile won’t be visible esatto any friends who use the feature. However, friends can add each other sicuro their secret crushes list, so you could gara with a friend if they have per crush on you.
How sicuro Delete per Facebook Dating Profile
It’s possible puro delete your Facebook Dating profile without deleting your regular Facebook profile, but deleting your account will remove you from Facebook Dating. Everything you have servizio up on the app will be gone, from matches onesto messages, although Facebook does still retain technical information, such as IP and email addresses you used.
Optionally, select per reason for quitting Facebook Dating, or tap Skip. Tap Next puro finalize your Facebook Dating profile deletion.
Take verso Break from the App
Take per Break lets you pause the account, retains all your giorno, and lets you get back into the app easily when you’re ready. Just go esatto General > Account > Take verso Break and toggle the switch.
Facebook Dating Safety
Before you meet someone you know online con person, you should always tell a friend where you’re going. It’s also per good intenzione esatto communicate with them over text or Facebook messenger so that they know you are safe. If you want to block verso user from contacting you or seeing your profile, you can do so under the General tab in the Facebook Dating settings.
The dating feature is not available on Facebook’s website, but there is per page for frequently asked questions about Facebook Dating.
The interprete is called a „spark.” It’s per way preciso spettacolo someone that you are very interested in them. You can send three per verso 24-hour period.
You’ll be able preciso reinstall the app and create per new dating profile after seven days have passed. Facebook won’t allow you sicuro do it before that full week is over. Onesto via again, open your Facebook account and tap Menu > Dating. Then attrezzi up verso new profile just as you did previously.
The app might be down or need an update, you might have notifications blocked, your trasportabile device’s cache might need puro be cleared, or you could be having internet connection problems. Sicuro fix it when Facebook Dating isn’t working, try updating the app and turning on notifications.