Kim Harris

Hinge will test Face Check facial recognition in Mexico, Brazil, Australia and Canada this quarter, plus a Direct to Date feature in spring 2026.

Bumble has reinstated women-message-first in Mexico and Australia, reversing its Opening Moves feature less than a year after launch.

48% of actively dating Americans hide, minimise, or defer mental health discussion early on, a Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center survey finds.

Meta built a dedicated Threads studio at the NFL media centre for Super Bowl LIX, aiming to take live sports conversation from X.

HubPeople has migrated dating apps Say Allo and DiHola onto its white-label Affinity platform, replacing their entire technical infrastructure.

Three Day Rule relaunched in 2025 as an AI-powered dating app, and users report identical AI-generated opening messages, according to The Tech Buzz.

Reddit has expanded beta access to Reminder Ads, letting advertisers send opt-in push notifications and inbox messages to users.

Instagram is developing a way for users to remove themselves from others' Close Friends lists, per code found by Alessandro Paluzzi.

TikTok's U.S. daily actives rebounded to above 90 million after a privacy-led dip, but dating brands relying on it face concentration risk.

BLK's seven-step guide tells users to cap app time at two-hour windows and keep to three conversations, with survey data from 4,000+ BLK users.

Bluesky's transparency report says it removed 2.08 million accounts in 2025. Its reply filtering cut anti-social behaviour reports by 79%.

Forbes Health's 2025 survey found 78% of dating app users report burnout, and singles are now tracking dates in spreadsheets and the Spread app.

Spotify has added group messaging for up to 10 users, which could reduce the need for dating apps like Tinder, where music matching is a core feature.

Tawkify survey: 65% of respondents would pursue long-distance relationships and 84% would relocate, but the sample size and methodology are undisclosed.

QuackQuack says 57% of 9,685 Indian women daters use protective strategies on dating apps, pointing to a gap with platforms' engagement-led design.

Norton: 48% of New Zealand online daters would consider an AI romantic relationship, but 65% would be bothered by a human match using AI tools.

TikTok blamed a power outage for delayed posts and missing creator earnings after its US handover, a risk for dating content creators.

UpScrolled logged 41,000 installs in late January 2026 amid TikTok suppression allegations, a trust warning for dating apps with opaque algorithms.

UK dating apps now run at a 68:32 male-to-female ratio, with 3.6 million men and 1.7 million women, raising business risks for operators.

Pinterest's new Media Planner adds forecasting to Ads Manager for awareness campaigns, but dating operators report weaker signal quality than on Meta.