What is a Mutual Match on POF?

Finding a soulmate has never been more challenging. When the real-life search seems hopeless, we often turn to an online dating apps like Plenty of Fish to pair us with someone we might like.

If you’re wondering what a mutual match is, keep reading. In this article, we’ll tell everything you need to know about searching and connecting on Plenty of Fish.

How Mutual Match Works?

When two members of POF like each other and both swipe right – they’re mutually matched. Swiping left and right has become a standard way to express liking and disliking in the word of online dating. If both users say yes, then the app matches them and opens up a mutual chat. Chatting is the most common form of connecting on POF, but there are others like NextDate game or Distance Matching.

Before You Start Swiping

While you’re filling in your profile info, find time to answer a few questionaries and a quick chemistry test. Every piece of information you provide might help the search engine find the best possible dates for you.

Chemistry Test

Plenty of Fish offers its members a chemistry test. After clicking on the “Chemistry” button on the main menu, you’ll get 73 multiple-choice personality questions. Your answers will help the dating site provide high-quality recommendations.

Searching Tools

For those who can’t find what they’re looking for, POF Search comes to the rescue. Here, they’ll be able to specify what exactly they’re looking for in a future date.

Searching for matches is one of the essential parts of online dating. On Plenty of Fish, you can search matches according to several distinct sets of criteria. You can look for people by their age, education, location, and everything else you might think it’s important.

Here’s how to do it:

Find the Search button to start.
Select Refine Search.
Set all the criteria you have in mind.
Select Find My Match.

Afterward, you need to scroll through the results to find your ideal date.

For upgraded members, there’s even an option to find specific members using their username.

Age Search

Age is one of the most vital pieces of information on online dating profiles. Age started to act as a specific filter. On POF, you can select a particular age range for your future dates and determine their minimum and maximum age.

Plenty of Fish, like other dating websites, introduced a tool to enable members to find others that are beyond their age limit. As you get older (every year after your birthday), the range expands, allowing you to match with more members.

Who is Looking at my Profile?

Once you’ve finished uploading photos and writing descriptions, your profile is out, and you’ll start getting attention. If you want to see who’s been looking at your profile, you can use the Viewed Me option from the home screen. There you’ll find a list of members who were checking you out.

How Does Distance Matching Works?

Members of Plenty of Fish who use it on the mobile phones are allowing the app to collect their location to adjust searches according to how close people are. Members who live nearby or walk through the same streets every day will see each other on the app first. Distance matching might even motivate some of them to arrange to grab a coffee.

On the other hand, members who aren’t interested in distance matching will still get promising recommendations. However, their matches might end up living in another city or a different part of the country.

Interactive NextDate Game

After a while, online dating can get a bit dull, especially if you haven’t been able to find someone you like. That’s why POF introduced an interactive game for its members to have a good laugh and get to know each other better in the process.

If you decide to participate in the game, you’ll ask prompted questions to your potential matches. When the game is over, and you like the answers, you’ll be able to continue your conversation in a private chat.

Ready to start? Find your Live! Option and tap the heart icon in the bottom left corner of your screen. In case you want to start playing, press Play Now.

How to Start Your NextDate?

Follow these instructions to start your own or join someone else’s NextDate and get a new perspective on online dating.

To start your NextDate, you’ll need to:

Select the Live option and choose Date in the available categories.
Pres Live and wait for other members to join you.
Once you have someone on your date, your NextDate can start.

If you want to join a NextDate someone already started, you should:

Select the Live option and choose Date in the available categories.
Look through all the members who are actively using NextDate.
Choose someone who seems interesting and join their game.
If you enjoyed the game, tap “Date Me” heart to continue the conversation in private.

Just Keep Swiping

A great life partner doesn’t just appear out of nowhere. It often takes time (and swiping) to find what you’re looking for, and online dating can often speed up the process. Now that you know what a mutual match is and how arbitrary every search can be, don’t give up on dating too early.

Have you met someone interesting through Plenty of Fish? Would you participate in the NextDate game? Let us know in the comments section below!