How To Block Someone On Tinder - Full Guide [2023]

Tinder is all fun and good until you are matched with someone who is a living disaster, I know we all had been there and it is frustrating. A toxic match not only ruins your dating experience but may also test your limits by spamming messages, hell no!

You can’t turn back time, right? But you can do one thing and that is you can block that person. Blocking is not something unknown, so I think that there is no need to explain it.

But what needs explaining is, how to block someone on Tinder?

You seem oblivious to this blocking process. Do not worry mate because today I am here with an amazing and easy-to-understand guide on how to block someone on Tinder.

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How To Block Someone On Tinder?

Now, there are different spheres of blocking on tinder. There is blocking your contacts, blocking after unmatching, and blocking before matching. We will look at how to perform all of them one by one.

How To Block Your Contacts on Tinder

You don’t want your contacts to know that you use Tinder? Fair enough.

Luckily there is a way to block your contacts on Tinder.

Guide on how to block contacts on Tinder.

Step 1: Open the Tinder app and click on the profile icon.
Step 2: Then click on settings.
Step 3: Now scroll through your settings and tap on ‘Block contacts’
Step 4: Inside block contacts, you will see a contact tab, select that tab.
Step 5: Tap on import contacts, present in the middle of the screen, and give permission to Tinder to access your contacts.
Step 6: Then all your contacts will be imported to Tinder. Now you can select the contacts you want to block.

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How To Block Someone On Tinder After Matching

Your match didn’t turn out how you expected? Now the person is spamming messages?

You can even block a person after you have matched with them. Here’s how.

Guide on how to block someone after matching.

Step 1: Open Your Tinder app and open your conversation box/inbox.
Step 2: Open the person’s conversation whom you want to block.
Step 3: Tap on the shield icon present in the top-right corner. A pop-up menu will open up, that is your ‘safety toolkit’
Step 4: Select unmatch. A pop-up window will open, tap on the ‘yes unmatch’ option.

And there you go. Now the match is unmatched and the person can not find you or view your profile.

So, this was how to block a person.

How To Unblock A Person

You may have mistakenly blocked someone. Don’t worry there is a way to unblock a person.

Guide to unblock a person.

Step 1: Open the Tinder app and select the profile icon.
Step 2: Go to the settings.
Step 3: Now select ‘block contacts’
Step 4: Find the ‘blocked’ tab.
Step 5: Now you have a list of blocked contacts. You can now unblock them from here, you can also unblock all contact at once.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Here are some frequently asked questions about Tinder.

1. Can you block someone on Tinder without matching with them?

You can block someone before matching with them

Follow These Steps

Step 1: Open the Tinder app and click on the profile icon.
Step 2: Then click on settings.
Step 3: Now scroll through your settings and tap on ‘Block contacts’
Step 4: Inside block contacts, you will see a contact tab, select that tab.
Step 5: Tap on import contacts, present in the middle of the screen, and give permission to Tinder to access your contacts.
Step 6: Then all your contacts will be imported to Tinder. Now you can select the contacts you want to block.

2. How do I block someone on Tinder?

Blocking on Tinder is possible and we have given two methods above.

3. Can you tell if someone blocked you on Tinder?

If you have blocked that contact before matching then no, no one can tell if they are blocked or not. But if you have blocked a match then they can come to know because when you will unmatch them all your conversations will be deleted.

Parting Words

This was all about blocking on Tinder, it is to be noted that if someone is harassing you on tinder then you should immediately block them, and that too without any second thought because in the online world your safety is in your own hands.

Happy dating.

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