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For a straight male, you’ll see a surprisingly large number of fake profiles. Anecdotally, women seem to report this too. (Reddit has MANY such posts!) So identity verification is a real problem.

As an iPhone user, I’d seriously consider using a dating app that ONLY allowed you to “Sign in with Apple”, in the belief that it’s the “best” way to ensure a real human is behind the sign-in, more-so than email/pwd, or even Facebook or Google sign-ins.

Except maybe ID.me as used by the IRS and the VA?

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Where I live, for at least one dating app, you need to take a photograph next while holding your passport. I'm sure that a human verifies it.

Giving your full personal data to a dating app where an underpaid human checks the passport info, doesn't really sound like a smart idea.

btw, I'm just throwing out that "Sign in with Apple" is "best" only to challenge "Sign in with Facebook" or "Sign in with Google" folks to explain why not.

At the very least, it's nice to have Apple whip up a random email address for you every time a site asks for one.

>As an iPhone user, I’d seriously consider using a dating app that ONLY allowed you to “Sign in with Apple”,

This way you can also avoid the poor Android users and clear them off the gene pool. /s

No, with other dating apps around you just spawn a speciation.

If I had a dollar for every "green bubble" comment I got when I started texting someone from a dating app, I'd almost be able to to buy an iPhone

Wait, so this is a thing in the real world? I thought it was just people on Twitter being dumb. Like, prospective dates are judging you on your brand of phone?

Maybe I'm just too old now (mid-30's) but I don't even know what kind of phone most of my friends and acquaintances have.

YES. It is ABSOLUTELY A THING.

I personally haven't dealt with it, but I personally know people who have. They tend to skew younger, and it's a big deal in middle/high schools. Kids will actually bully other kids just because they have an Android.

It's pathetic that Apple marketing has worked so well at convincing people that they're the luxury product.

Well, at least it was innovative, you could bend an iphone way before the "fold" series phones from samsung :)

It's usually half joking but people remark on it more often than not.

Part of it is because they're not used to communicating with people outside of the Apple walled garden, so there's some extra hurdles for video calls, sharing photos, things like that.

On the plus side, someone seriously thinking having an Android is a red flag is a red flag on its own.

If I started talking to someone and they said "Ew, you're on an Android?", I'd be like "Oh, you're like that. Nevermind then. Good bye!"

Its more of a test than a judgement.

How does this person own one of their choices vs automatic red flag.

“Ew you’re on an android” “Yeah, I like it” “Well how am I supposed to text you” “Idk guess we’ll have to spend time together in person”

> This way you can also avoid the *smart* Android users and clear them off the gene pool.

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