Dating App Tinder Adds “Panic” Button Feature

Tinder users are now assured of security as the dating app has added a ‘panic’ button to help protect customers during emergencies.

The online dating app announced that the ‘panic’ button will improve the safety of the users by enabling them to use features like photo verification, location tracking, and emergency assistance.

How Tinder’s ‘panic’ button feature works

The users will first have to download the Noonlight app and allow the location settings on their phones or PCs.

The users will then have to add the dates’ information manually including the actual location and time which will be shared with friends.

During the date, when the users feel unsafe, they will have to open the Noonlight app and click on the ‘panic’ button.

Noonlight will then send a text message to enable the user to communicate without alerting the other person.

If the text goes unanswered, Noonlight will then send a code and call the user and if the call is not responded to, Noonlight will dispatch an emergency service to the location.

To prevent users from providing a wrong identity or ‘catfishing’, Tinder’s new security feature will require the users to take several real-time selfies and these photos will be verified with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Tinder’s Parent Company, Match Group, announced that it will add all the safety features in each of their related apps which include Hinge, PlentyOfFish, and OkCupid.

Match Group said that it invested a lot in Noonlight which will help in providing emergency alert services and location tracking. Match Group did not disclose the amount it invested in Noonlight.

Mandy Ginsberg, Match Group’s Chief Executive Officer believes that a safe and positive dating experience is crucial to the company’s business and involving Noonlight is a very big step in ensuring the users’ security.

“We’ve found cutting-edge technology in Noonlight that can deliver real-time emergency services – which doesn’t exist on any other dating product, “Mandy Ginsberg said.

Tinder’s new panic button feature will help reduce the cases of sexual harassment, which most human rights agencies have blamed the dating apps for.

With this new feature, Match Group boasts to be the first dating platform to introduce the users’ safety features.