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Profiles · 5 min read · February 26, 2026
Dating app profile mistakes worth fixing
Your photos decide who talks to you. Most profiles waste at least three of them.
Every photo should do a different job
- One clear, well-lit face photo
- One full body photo
- One doing something you actually do
- One with friends
- Nothing blurry, nothing six years old
Bios: specific beats clever
A real, slightly odd detail gives people an obvious way to message you. A list of adjectives gives them nothing.
Prompts are conversation bait
Answer them as if someone will quote your answer back at you, because that is exactly what a good match will do.
Stuck on a real conversation right now?
Paste the chat and Hook - Ai Rizz Wingman writes a few ways to answer.
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