From my experience, on day one, after I made a profile and edited a few things, within 24 hours, they wanted verification of who I am. It's an optional thing for verification (not sure I believe that), but their policy says they can request it. I don't have a problem with verification to prevent fraud, but as they say in their policy they use humans moderators and in some cases biometrics. Believe me, from my view, their is no human comparing photos (I tested it in many ways), it's just purely biometrics of your face. My understanding is they store it for a minimum of three years and a third party is involved. I don't trust any form of collecting biometrics information sitting on unknown servers waiting to be hacked. It's not like your credit card where you can just change cards. It's something that is permanent and can be used wrongfully in the wring hands. What happens to that info when the company is sold or doesn't exist in the future sitting on computers somewhere? As is a frequent complaint on these reviews, there is no real customer support - no phone number either. I have emailed support both through the Bumble app and regular response emails over 22 times with different ways of expressing my concerns. I was requesting that they just compare photos ONLY by using humans - NO biometrics, or delete my account and refund my money.

After a week, i get a generic canned response of telling me how to delete my account. And, that wasn't even correct. That is, I can't get into your account to delete it UNLESS I go through the biometrics approval and it passes ( which many have said they can't get it passed). In the mean time, they keep charging me. I kept emailing them again, another week goes by, I get another canned response with only instructions from them how to use there verification process. Duh... Nothing new,; same no response to my questions. I even made a case that a bot, or a scamming human being would not go through this much effort of original content relevant emails. That it is just common sense with that alone! Of course, no response. Like so many things in our society now, they want to force you into their system. If you don't fit the mold and/or not willing, they will take money and just leave you in limbo. They know that you are too small to fight the corporate machine, so they just keep pilfering and fleecing. Human integrity is going out the window for profit only models which is going to and has already started bitting us in the a*s. Stay away from this site!

Boycott none human interaction companies that don't even have actual human support. This will pressure others to start putting that forward. But, just wait for AI to fake human interaction. Another profit driven scheme in the waiting, sadly..

These people are not even on star worth. This bumble have been taking money from me every day, this is a amount of 6€. Not even in a month i already paid 150€ with automatic payment. This is SCAM SCAM SCAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. REALLY F**8 THESE PEOPLE MAN.

Before the Bumble trolls attempt to discredit this review is disingenious let me preface it by saying I used your app consistently long enough to give an esrnest review.

My last week of using bumble I was inundated with upgrade messages, upgrade to premium services, etc. Not once did I receive a single message outside of Bumble admin suggesting, you"ve got it if you guessed upgrade to their premium service.

Of the very miniscule likes I received, 2 in total one was automatically removed within seconds of the match. The other matche just sat there in Bumble pergatory until it expired.

It really does NOT matter what Bumble states in their mission statement in-terms of dating. Their objevtive is to garner more users with factitious sells of finding love via the app. But, the true motivation is selling you to make an abundance of SALES (Cha-Ching)

And, again before you attempt to discresit qhat is being stated you may find other reviews from uswrs who share the very same sentiments regarding Bumble.

You may find a bevy of attractive photos but, the travel mode dispells this as being actually in fact the case of those accessible or avilable within close proximity. And, of that finite number you can rest assured that X amount of users are already engaging with the very small percentage of Bumble
Users who have found any form of dating success.

It is no secret that Bumbles popularity since the apps conception has seen a steady decline in favorable reporting. Bumbke is NOT kind to the common Brad, Kenny, or Steven who simply want to find a mate. It is now inundated with instagram models who suggest you message them outside the app. And, in addition a cesspool of of consused users who poignantly affirm pronouns rather than afford counterparts a dose of truism with reference to whom they are in fact.

In summation Bumble proved to be unauthentic, useless, and capital driven with it's constant inundation of messages to upgrade to their premium services where it promises emphatic changes and all your dating wishes will come true. It is utter rubbish and cynical rhetoric.

I would NOT suggest using the Bumble app. Save yourself the time and aggrevatiin of useless swiping and forwarding messages for intended recepients who will never even receive your likes, or messages.

You would have better luck meeting the old fashioned way; at a pub, market, or at random walking.

I feel for all the reviewers who have come here to express their frustrations with Bumble. The company has hired an entitled group of similar bent pushing an agenda narrowly based on their radical beliefs and pushing this on daters across the counties they infiltrate. Their beliefs of right and wrong are so screwed and different from the majority of the world.
They have created a fiefdom based on fake and scammer profiles in the beliefs that pushing AI relationships is more important than providing a safe platform for normal people to meet. It is a sesspool and frustrating waste of time created strictly to take your money. Their better than thou attitudes forcing their beliefs and rules interpreted based on their perverse view of the world on all while providing a platform filled with dangerous scammers and bots and fakes is sickening.
Fine. It's is their sandbox and if you play it's their rules and interpretations. Their group of office workers read your communications and make decisions while at the same time filling their site with fake profiles.
Don't ever pay. This group that is so rule focused has screwed probably thousands out of their money and have been flagged even by the BBB based on their bad business practices and hundreds of unanswered complaints.

Imagine being banned or warned and never being told why? If you think this could never happen to you, well, I thought this too.

Over a month of trying to get an answer and here is what I keep getting from them:

"I completely understand how frustrating it is to not know the exact reason why the account had been warned.

However, we have strict privacy laws and in order to protect the integrity of our internal systems we cannot reveal certain information.

Please know we investigate each report thoroughly and with the utmost care to avoid causing any unintentional distress or confusion.

The warning has been reviewed by multiple team members here at Bumble and has been deemed to have been issued fairly.

At this stage I can recommend having a look over our Community Guidelines as well as our Terms and Conditions via the following links:"

Any educated reasonable person reading this who then gives Bumble any money or continues to pay deserves to be in the other end of this insanity. I have never given them a dime.
I just want to get the word out as I am sure there are others like me. If you find this useful, please mark it as such so it will be available for others. Bumble and other sites are so opaque that it is important to make their despicable practices known to all.

I am not saying you can't meet someone here. I just want people to be clear of the dangers. Never pay. You do not have to pay to meet someone. Do the work. Read the profiles and like those you are interested in. Don't only go by what fills your in box. If you are a woman, make an effort in your message. Men don't know you and have no reason to chase you unless you give them one. Don't just say hello. Never pay Bumble or any of these sites. Never give anyone you meet on any of these sites money. Never. No matter how long you are talking never do it. If you are insisting on paying read the BBB site warning first.

Bumble tries to be different by having a site where women are the ones who have to initiate contact with a man first, but apart from that it appears to be just one more dating app that's designed to extract as much money as possible, especially when most of the thing's you're paying for are basic elements that should be free.

PROS
None

CONS
+ No one will ever message you.

+ The search facility is none existent and as a man all you can do is swipe right for the women you like and swipe left on the one's you don't and hope that someone likes you back and initiates contact. Women have and will continue to have all the power on dating sites, so why design a dating app that only allows women to initiate communication when in-depth studies have shown most women tend to sit back and merely await interest coming to them, so the theory behind the site is flawed.

+ There are no options to save the profiles of women whom you're interested in, so as soon as you've swiped right, they're gone forever.

+ As a man why would I ever pay for a site that I have no ability to send messages? Why would I pay to merely unblur women's photos who have supposedly 'liked' me when there's a good possibility, I wouldn't be attracted to them or they're fake? I'm looking for a partner, not paying to gamble.

+ So many profiles are fake. A lot of them state they're situated locally or in a nearby town but then their profile reveals they're in a town miles away, or even in a different country.

+ Are there any genuine women on the site? Well, I have had women 'like' me but whom suspiciously never make contact, even though they know the sites designed for them to do so and the men are unable to do so. Personally, I think the so called 'likes' are bait to peak men's curiosity and get them to pay so they can see who is purportedly interested.

+ There are so many profiles where women post their Instagram and Tik Tok addresses who are obviously just trying to increase their social media following rather than looking for a partner.

+ There are prostitute profiles who are advertising their 'services'.

+ And there are so many profiles who state they're single but a quick photo reverse search, or look on Facebook reveals that they're actually in a relationship, so they are either cheating, or are just on Bumble for attention and to mess guys around.

My advice to men is to stay away from this site, as no one will ever message you and there are just too many red flags. Overall Bumble is just a carbon copy of virtually all modern dating apps on the market and really not worth your time or money, especially if you're a guy.

Don't give Bumble any of your money. They will scam you and you can't get your money back!

First of all, these jerks banned me for no reason whatsoever. I read their guidelines, which are very short and concise. I never offended any user (hardly spoke to anyone), and my photos were legit and were the same ones the entire time. The other guidelines are routine like any other app or dating site. Since they won't tell me who was responsible (which is fine), they won't even tell me which guideline. If there were complaints, none were forwarded to me earlier.

Second of all, I'm pretty sure they just banned me because I was critical of their app and was very vocal about it but what I'm saying is cohesive of what others are saying. I did get a warning when I was critical about their app, but seriously, this app is BAD! Bumble is such a bad app that doesn't work and it's very sketchy overall. Let me go over some of the details that are apparent

The only thing I can think of is what I did is directly message users outside of the app. However, if people leave their contact info, such as their Instagram account, then that's Bumble fault. Some women didn't like me saying hi, but I told them where I found their user name. Others were nice about it. So maybe this is why I was banned? Either way, I don't see why it's a big deal to leave a social media contact on your profile. Of course, no site wants it because they would lose money.

After your swipes are depleted and no profiles are available to swipe, you can wait a few hours and a few more will show up. I doubt these people just signed up so quickly in your area during that time, especially since you won't get a match. This begs the question as to where these profiles came from all of a sudden. It's definite that a lot of profiles are either fake or old profiles from the archives to get people to stick around and pay for boosts.

You may get the odd match here and there, but overall, you will run out of profiles. If you're new, there will be a lot of profiles, but eventually, it won't take long to "run out" again. You want to try this app without giving a crap? Put in a cheesy movie, keep your eyes on the TV, and swipe right the entire time. Just do it to see what happens. Without even knowing it, you will get a lot of fakes or old profiles and you probably won't get any matches, especially if you're a man.

There were MANY times where I got a match from someone I clearly didn't swipe "right" on. I don't like to "blind" swipe. I used to do that a long time ago. So if these are legit, they're "old matches". And of course, none of them message me first anyway, so this confirms my statement here.

I actually ran into a lot of friends who said they deleted their profile a long time ago and was upset to see it on there. This happened many times This also happens on Tinder as well, and I've had friends that I've run into that weren't happy to see their profile still up. So this begs the question of Bumble keeping your profile, even if you deleted the profile from within, and the app on your phone.

Many people aren't active on this app. They deleted it but may have forgotten to delete their profile first. Bumble should "purge" these profiles or at least send them a warning about inactivity after, say, 1-2 weeks after not signing in. Then they can re-download the app and then delete the profile and then the app again. Otherwise, you're sifting through old profiles all the time.

You keep seeing the same people time after time after "x" amount of days, weeks, or whatever the case is. This is very annoying. If you swipe "left" you shouldn't see them again, UNLESS you want to. So have a feature that allows you to see previously left-swiped people from, say, over a 1-2 months ago. Otherwise, what I've had to resort to now, is blocking those people so I don't see them again, which is something that nobody should have to do, nor what I want to do. Otherwise, when these types of aps keep doing this, it just looks like a cutthroat way to ask for us to "pay for more swipes"

You could literally swipe for hours and get no matches after several days or weeks. You may get one and I guess some women will swipe right for you once your profile has time to get out there. But you can't message the woman unless they write you first, which doesn't happen too often because they have a 24 hour window. If they have no push notifications, they won't even know about the match and it will expire. Do they have the option to at least receive a text or an e-mail? Nope! Alerts aren't always feasible if they're trying to save data. Either way, not being able to say hi to someone is just bizarre, and the dumbest thing about this app. Is it because women complain about weird messages? Well this is the only app where women go first. There are many instances where I saw a match I really wanted to pursue only to have it expire. The 24 hour daily extend wasn't enough. Also, they could have swiped me a long time ago and no longer use the app. If notifications are turned off, they won't know if they get a connection and therefore won't respond. Cant they get an e-mail as well? I get the notification, but as a guy, I'm powerless to do anything.

Bumble has a clear partnership with Tinder, yet they deny this. Have you ever swiped for awhile on one of the two apps, and then went on the other, only to see some of the same profiles on both during those times? I sure did, a million times! On many occasions after I see a profile on Bumble app or Tinder, I would switch to the other, only to see the same profile shortly thereafter. It's definitely safe to say that people use both apps, but the coincidences of seeing the same person so quickly after going on the other app are far too numerous. Something is very wrong here!

Women say hello and talk for a bit and then disappear. I don't know if they're signing in anymore or ignoring my messages. They didn't block me or anything, they just don't say hello when I reach out to them and this happens too much. Perhaps these profiles are no longer active or they don't come on anymore. Again, this is the issue of not being active on this app and it's a waste of time to keep saying hi.

What is the point of showing that they have an Instagram account if you can't view it? On Tinder you can click on a photo and see the app, and chose to make contact on there if you want. It's just an excuse to sneak in more photos. Guess what though most if not all of those photos are against Bumbles TOS on their regular photos. It's a dumb feature!

The 14 day boost trial is a very annoying pop-up to see. Have it on another section of the app and if people are interested, they can use the boosts. It's so annoying to see this "advertisement" come up so many times. I don't want to see the stupid thing!

Speaking of which, the Bumble Boosts are useless. All it does is allow you to extend matches longer. But again, if they don't see that you've matched, it's useless. You might as well just keep the match in limbo until they see it. And if their profiles would get purged, that would be the end of it.

Considering your app has mostly negative reviews, (on Consumer Affairs and I-Tunes) I can see why. Can you just run a normal app without all these problems and loopholes that they're mentioning?

Worst dating app ever I was so dumb to have used it for as long as I did. Do anything else people, just don't use dating apps.