There NEEDS to be some method of verifying that the person's profile pic is genuine. The amount of catfish in play on this app is a plague. It's impossible to know for sure, but I believe I am sent messages by fraudulent profiles on the order of 2x more than legitimate ones. There's a LOT of people misrepresenting who they are by using photos of different people. There's a ton of ways profile verification could be done. First, make it optional. That way it doesn't **** off the users who want to remain completely anonymous. I'd wager a decent bet that those of us who use this app legitimately will want to be able to prove to others we are who we say we are, and seek the same in return. It doesn't need to involve any personal information. Make it a multi-factor verification. Nothing will be completely bulletproof, but, something that would involve locking a profile to hardware by IMEI plus a face pic taken with the camera (lock out camera roll) in some sort of requested pose that is then stored and fingerprinted. Then the user could additionally opt-in to more advanced stuff... Some ideas: use facial recognition to prevent other people from trying to dupe someone already verified and locked by IMEI to a different profile in the system. Allow the user to prevent photos they've sent from ever being sent again by a different profile (more image recognition). Allow the user with the verified profile to optionally verify additional photos they send in messages by forcing the 'verified' pics be sent directly from the camera (no camera roll) - this to add some authenticity to pics not involving the face. Again, all of this stuff being optional. Not offering the choice of anything whatsoever at present is killing the "community" right now.

Maybe add a keyword/phrase chat search so anyone that does the "I'd like to meet up but first I need to verify you on a legit site" scam can get insta banned.
And actually ban them totally, not just the account, record the imei and any other device uuid to permanently ban them.
Scammers and people selling drugs should not be tolerated AT ALL, unlike the current situation.

Stop fake profiles yeah. But don't force connecting to social media.

Verify a profile that's real by having a system that anonymously allows other users to verify a user's profile after they meet..

Make users verify who they are before approving their profile. Other apps do this and you should too. Stop allowing users to create and delete and then re-ceeate new profiles so easily. This opens the app to abuse

Find a way to remove spam profiles and profile authentication.

Ban users that create multiple accounts to get Xtra features. Is useless to block them when anyone is allow to cheat. Other apps have the ability to do it by pulling device info.

Automatically block users who create multiple accounts or keep deleting and re/installing the app and starting over. It is insane that some guys create a new account every day — same games, new profile, block them again and they still come back! One profile per cricket human!

Not everyone is in a safe place either geographically or due to circumstances. Those that don’t talk to people just cos they don’t have face as profile pic are being insensitive

Require more personal data when creating or updating profile/account to protect good honest individuals. Immediate removal of harrassing/derogatory profiles, and banning their email or IP or device from creating another profile.

I would caution you to think about trans people and how their IDs may not reflect their chosen name or gender marker

Just stop using IT then

If someone on app has previously been involved with criminal activity &/or arrested in the past it would be nice to know. A Grinder user stole my wallet containing drivers license, many gift cards, debit card, and money. And I am truly sick of guys asking me if I wanna smoke weed with them when that stuff isn’t even legal in N.C. ([THANK GOD!]). I’ve even had a young guy who’s 16 years old ask me for some. This made me concerned about his health and what could happen to him. Honestly, this is a very unsafe app that is mostly being used for contacting dealers & users for illegal drug use. I believe it should be shut down.

I don’t care how. I was asked for: more pics? 77 times in a row. I sent pics 77 times. And zero communication. I’m not that **** ugly. But the current state of this is a joke.

No, don't do this. Being somewhat anonymous is a great and need feature.

I agree! There are too many people who don't match their pics...
Be proud! Be yourself!

Please. I've already had people report my profile multiple times for being "underage" (I'm ******* 30), and have had to send a picture of my driver's license w/ my birthday visible – despite having paid for Xtra for years.

Having something to stop that **** from happening again would be grand.

Make being verified a thing. It’s dangerous and makes everyone voulnerable when fakes steal pics. It’s jist not right. A simple send pic oF you holding your ID and then you get a verified something… I mean that would be great

Have the user take a picture with their screen name to verify.

Inclined to agree and ban them if they don’t flag themselves as escorts.