Bumble age verification: the three checks explained
Bumble runs three checks: an ID request if it suspects you are under 18, an optional ID badge and a selfie check. On its pages, one is about age.
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Why is Tinder asking me to verify my age? What its terms say
Tinder's March 2026 terms require users to be 18+ and let it make features mandatory. Its privacy policy says Face Check is required in some regions.
Why is Grindr asking me to verify my age? What its terms say
Grindr's 2026 terms tie the age check to where you are: a video selfie in the UK, a date of birth where no check is required. Read from Grindr's own pages.
Which dating apps require age verification in Australia?
Tinder makes a video selfie mandatory for new Australian users, but its own page does not call it an age check. App by app, what each operator's page says.
Do dating apps use facial recognition for age verification?
Tinder, Grindr and Feeld all scan a selfie to check you are 18. Which is recognition, which is estimation, what is kept, and the vendor's error margin.
Which dating apps require age verification in the UK?
Grindr, Daddyhunt and Feeld all gate UK users behind an age check. What each one asks for, read from the operators' own pages on 11 September 2026.
SCRUFF and Jack'd, reviewed on the privacy policy they share
Two apps marketed to different crowds, one document. Both privacy links land on the same Perry Street Software policy, last revised 4 August 2026 — so the privacy question a buyer thinks they are choosing between has already been answered the same way twice.
Korea's FTC fined Duo over its "professional members" claim. The reasoning is the useful part
A matchmaker advertised the industry's most professional and elite-university members. The regulator asked who wrote the definitions, and whether anyone had checked the competition.