Tinder’s upcoming ‘Swipe Party’ feature lets friends help you choose dates
Tinder is working on a new feature called Swipe Party that will let you invite friends online to help you vet dates, TechCrunch has reported. The feature was first spotted in the app’s code by the Dutch site Gratisdatingtips and has yet to be announced, but Tinder confirmed that it’s in in the works.
The feature would be not unlike Apple’s SharePlay, which lets you do watch parties with friends via FaceTime on supported apps like Disney+ and Hulu. With Tinder, you could similarly invite friends to your swiping sessions so they could help you pick a match. A lot of folks already do that in person, so the new feature bring that online — handy in the time of COVID-19.
Code snippets show that Swipe Party would let you invite friends to join a session by providing their phone number, confirming it with a code, then entering their name and date of birth. If you want their help, however, you’d need to give them access to your phone’s camera and microphone.
Tinder recently let users add videos to their dating profiles, and parent Match recently promised to introduce other audio and chat features to its dating apps. While Tinder confirmed to TechCrunch that the feature was in development, it didn’t provide any additional details.
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