I get catphished more often than I talk to real people in a given day on grindr. It would be super easy for you to add a validation option badge and then I could simply ignore people who don't want to validate. Real people are always happy to validate. I don't have time for 20 people to catphish me every day. I want to meet real people!🙏🥺 these people are malicious and they block me as soon as I ask for validation. It wastes more than half of my time on the app and seriously deteriorates my experience.

Add a verification badge that verifies the users face like bumble & tinder have. It will get rid of bots & the fake people using others profile pictures.

Add idenity verification, like ID or mobile phone etc... add longer profile name, comments and description field lengths. Add larger number of photos to profile (public and private), Add ability to add unique self-defined fields with answers to such

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This is more important than anything else on Grindr and it needs to happen ASAP. Too many fake people on here, and the scary part is some of them actually want to meetup knowing they are not who they say they are. Grindr please do this ASAP

Yes, we badly need a Verification badge on this site's profiles. I myself have been clicked by anon profiles - actually using photo of someone I know - 200 miles away!

Make all users verify their identity using a state ID. Don't make that info public just use it for verification purposes. This eliminates spammers completely, and if a hookup God forbid turns into a sexual assault or a robbery, then the assailant can be more easily tracked down and prosecuted. But no user will directly be able to identify another user. Just grindr and law enforcement if it comes down to that.

YES ! this!

VERIFICATION BADGES FOR REAL PEOPLE. or add snapchat to the social media. my pictures have been stolen a lot of times and i feel bad for people who get catfished from it , but it also made people question me if i’m even real or just another cat fish... i link my instagram so people can see i have other social media but i have to keep it private because people keep stealing my pictures to use on grindr.. its much easier to verify if someone is really them from snapchat than it is from instagram or facebook which can easily be faked…. it’s honestly unfair these catfishes can hide behind my pictures telling people i do horrible nasty things and there’s no way for anyone to know that it’s fake or who it really is. i used to get 300-400 views a day, then fake profiles of me started coming up saying i’m HORRIBLE things like i have STDs and i wanna get f*cked for dr*gs & now i get 30-60 views a day… PLEASE ADD VERIFICATION BADGES FOR CONFIRMED REAL ACCOUNTS … it’s not fair.

Please keep the std status filter in app

This is dumb. Don't do this. I can see it being abused a lot.

I didn't know people could create dozens of profiles, don't they need a unique email and phone number for each account? Seems like a lot of work. My friend got blocked and now can no longer use grindr as he only has the one phone number 🙃

So looking through suggestions on here I notice tons of votes for different features and such. What I am surprised is that options involving your sexual health are getting very little attention.

It would seem to be that this should be a top priority when you are using a hookup app. I just got notified today that I have an STD. I know the people I’ve been with. 2 people that I met on Grindr and have their phone numbers. 1 I met on Grindr and no contact information other than chat.

It would be nice to have a feature where at the push of a button I can notify this person anonymously that they may have come in contact with an STD.

The only downside I can see to this is people pushing it to be “funny” or cruel. Maybe make the feature only activated for use if you’ve been within 300 feet of this person. Sexual Heath is very important and I believe a feature like this will help all of us stay healthier and happier.

Also, yes I did notify them all personally.

Please consider this for the immediate future. Just seems like common sense to me.

Mike

I see many feature requests here marked as 'PLANNED' like 'adding kink to profile section' or 'hosting/looking now icons' and it baffles me how something like a verification feature does not exist.

It doesn't need to be mandatory, it just just to be an option to keep scammers and catfishes away and to KEEP PEOPLE SAFE. Please support and vote for this feature!

We shouldn't have to ask people to verify their identity by sending a specific picture, or being pressured to give away social media account info or phone numbers. Grindr has a responsibility to keep people safe

Great idea, needs to happen to keep people safe. Other apps have it, so why are we deprived of it here? I pay for EXTRA but this feature should be freely available to everyone. Period.

Totally disagree with the poster below. Verification should be an OPTION, it doesn't need to bemandatory so those who want to stay discreet can...and those who want to make sure they are not being catfished and getting their pics stolen, or worse meeting someone who isn't who they say they are can stay safe.

A mock location is of use
If it's only a short distance, but not suitable for deception.

I don't need a 100% accurate location, but I don't like setting something up only to learn that the distance is unrealistic.

Big thing would be increased safety going along with that.

Bad idea. It will compel people to show a pic.

Many do not want their photos up and indeed on a location specific app that would most definitely compromise personal security. The reason people hide their faces is not just closet cases but to avoid neighbours seeing or being shown them by third parties, to avoid jealous ex's, to avoid cyber stalkers etc.... Also, many of the faceless prefer to relate intellectually as a priority before showing their faces and indeed many are good-lookers who don't want to be picked up for shallow cosmetic reasons.

If you want proof of identity just ask the person to send a face-pic posed in a certain way or go meet them in the street to check each other out.

I've seen scammers pretending to be women, on a gay dating app.