Introducing Profile Hide: Keep Your Profile Invisible to Unwanted Users

Profile Hide is a privacy tool that lets you hide your profile from specific users—like exes, coworkers, or neighbors—before any conversation starts. When you hide someone, your profile disappears from their grid, and theirs vanishes from yours. Unlike blocking, which is reserved for addressing safety concerns, Hide is designed to help you avoid unwanted visibility and prevent real-life awkwardness—all discreetly, with no notifications sent.

How It Works:

1. Find a profile you haven’t chatted with. The Hide button appears on profiles where no messages have been exchanged.
2. Tap the Hide icon at the top of their profile photo.
3. Confirm your choice.

Once hidden:

• Their profile vanishes from your grid, Viewed Me, Taps, and all other areas of the app.
• Your profile disappears from their grid and all other areas of the app.
• No notifications are sent. They won’t know you hid them.

Changed your mind?

Go to Settings > Security & Privacy > Unhide Users to restore visibility at any time.

Why Use Profile Hide?

We designed this feature to address your needs:

1. Avoid Awkward Overlaps

Spot a coworker, neighbor, or ex? Hide your profile from them (this also removes their profile from your app) to skip uncomfortable encounters—both on and off the app.

2. Curate Your Feed

Your grid should reflect who you want to see. Hide profiles that aren’t a match to prioritize connections that spark your interest.

3. Use Block for Safety

Blocking remains available for users you’ve chatted with or who’ve messaged you. Use it to stop harassment, spam, or inappropriate behavior.

Profile Hide vs. Blocking: Know the Difference

Profile Hide

• Use to avoid someone you know or to curate your grid.
• For users you haven’t chatted with
• Removes mutual visibility instantly.
• Discreet—does not notify other users.

Blocking

• Use for safety, harassment, or serious issues.
• For users you have chatted with.
• Removes all visibility and deletes chat history.
• Discreet—does not notify other users.

How to Start Using Profile Hide

Profile Hide is now available to all Grindr users. To access it:

1. Update to the latest app version.
2. Tap Hide on any profile you haven’t messaged.

Your Privacy, Your Rules

We know how important it is to feel in control of your experience. Profile Hide isn’t replacing Block—it’s giving you more flexibility to:

• Protect your privacy without escalating to a block.
• Focus on connections that align with your interests.
• Avoid awkwardness with people you’d rather not see.

Questions?

For more details, visit our Help Center.

Grindr remains committed to your safety. Blocking is still available for users you’ve chatted with, and you can report harassment or abuse directly in the app.

Update your app today and start shaping your Grindr experience—on your terms.

—Grindr Team