While on your quest to find love on Hinge, you’d sometimes want to use the remove or report option for people you believe you can’t connect with, or those who violate rules.
However, you probably don’t know exactly what the remove or report options can do. In this article, we’ll analyze the Hinge remove vs report options, and talk about their similarities and differences.
Hinge remove vs report: Overview
Even though Hinge is a platform for dating, it provides you with some features to keep yourself secured as you use the app.
Moreover, it provides the “remove” and “report” options to help users leverage security and pick who they want to engage with. Continue reading to find out exactly what remove and report options do on Hinge.
Hinge Remove vs Report: What are the differences?
The major difference between them is that the remove option is only used whenever you want to permanently stop someone from seeing you on their matched list or engaging with you.
For example, you’ve previously matched someone, whom you’ve been having conversations with, and at some point, you don’t feel connected to the person anymore and don’t want to be in contact with the person anymore.
In that case, you can use the “remove” option to unmatch yourself from the person.
The report option on the other hand, is used when there’s a need to let Hinge be aware of someone who has been violating certain rules, so that necessary disciplinary actions will be taken against the person.
For example, if a Hinge user threatens you, or posts inappropriate things, you can report the person to Hinge and they’ll take the right decision after monitoring the reported account.
The report feature could also be useful in a case where you notice bot profiles on the app
Why would you want to remove or report someone on Hinge?
You may want to remove or report someone due to different reasons. If you’re no longer interested in engaging with someone (probably because you now find them annoying), you may want to permanently cut all ties with the person by removing or unmatching them from your match list.
Meanwhile, as you meet great people on the app, you may likely meet scammers and spammers too. Of course, you’d want to protect other real users from these scammers or spammers. Therefore, you may want to use the report option to ask Hinge to deal with them.
How do you remove or report someone on Hinge?
Now that you know what these two features work for, you probably want to try them out, but you don’t know how to access them. Well, it’s very easy to do. Here’s how to remove or report anyone on Hinge.
- Open the Hinge app and log in.
- Next, go through your matched list and find the person you want to report or remove, then, click on their account to see their profile.
- On their profile page, you should see an “ellipsis” (three dots) icon. Tap on that icon to open a pop-up.
- Next, from the options in the pop-up, select “Remove” or “Unmatch” if you want to permanently remove this user from your matched list. If you want to report the user, tap on “Report.”
- Now, you should see a page that asks you to select the reason why you’re unmatching or reporting that person. Select the one that best fits your reason. For example, if you want to report a person for posting unhealthy content, you should select the “Inappropriate content” option from the list.
- If all goes well, you’ll see a small “X” that shows you’ve successfully removed the person.
NOTE: You can also report anyone who isn’t on your matched list. To do that, follow these steps.
- Tap on the button with an “H” icon located at the bottom-left area of your dashboard. This should show you a list of people (who are not on your matched list) that you can match with.
- Search for the person, who you want to report and go to the person’s profile.
- Tap on the three-dots button at the top-right side, while on the profile, and select “Report” from the list of options shown.
- Select the reason for reporting the account, finally.
And that’s all about how to report or remove someone.
If you’ve reported an account, you definitely won’t see Hinge taking an action such as banning that account immediately. Instead, they’ll verify whether what you reported about the account is true, after which the necessary action will be taken.
What are the consequences of removing or reporting someone on Hinge?
There are basically no consequences. However, you’ll never see the account you’ve reported or removed on your unmatched or matched list again. They’ll be permanently hidden from you. Moreover, the removed person won’t see you on their matched list again as everything about your account would be removed from that person’s account.
In addition, if you try to search for the person again with your profile, you won’t find the person. The only way to find the person is when either of you creates a new Hinge account.
That is why I’ll suggest that you think about it well before taking such action since its result will be permanent. Fortunately, the app provides the “Hide/Unhide” option which is friendlier as it allows you to hide or unhide people whenever you have a change of mind.
Does Hinge notify people if I unmatch or report them?
Thankfully, Hinge does well to ensure that a person is not notified when you report or remove unmatch them.
So, if you’ve wanted to use any of these buttons and you thought Hinge probably notifies people, you can rest assured that they don’t do that.
However, this may leave the unmatched person confused because he won’t see you on his matched list again (even if he searches). And he won’t be able to tell whether you removed or reported him, or deleted your Hinge account.
Final Thoughts
Sometimes, Hinge app users tend to mistake what report and remove does, and that has led to some people losing potential matched users. In this article where we have analyzed Hinge remove vs report, we’ve seen what the report and remove (unmatch) buttons do to help you avoid making mistakes about their functions.
