How to hide Tinder notifications on Android

Tinder sorts its notifications into kinds

Android apps file each notification under a kind (Android calls them notification categories). Tinder uses separate kinds for messages, matches and the different kinds of likes. On our test phone, Tinder registered these:

• Messages
• New Matches
• New Likes
• Message Likes
• Super Likes
• Top Picks
• Uncategorized

These are Tinder’s English names, checked in October 2026. Your phone shows them in its own language, and Tinder can add or rename kinds with updates.

That’s good news: it means you can treat messages and likes differently — for example keep messages, but get rid of the likes and Top Picks.

Option 1: Android’s own settings

1. Open Settings → Apps → Tinder → Notifications. (Faster: press and hold a Tinder notification and tap the gear icon.)
2. Switch off the kinds you don’t want — or all notifications from Tinder.

This works, and it’s free. The limits:

• Switched off means not delivered at all. Nothing is kept — you only notice a new match when you open Tinder.
• No quick switch. Want them back for the evening? That’s the same menu again, kind by kind.
• The lock screen setting is for all apps. Android can hide notification content on the lock screen, but not for Tinder alone — and once the phone is unlocked, everything shows.

Tinder’s own settings also let you turn some push notifications off — with the same trade-off.

Option 2: hide them with Removication

1. Install Removication and allow Notification Access. Without it, no app can remove another app’s notifications. The content stays on your phone.
2. In Choose an app, pick Tinder (several apps at once is fine — the list is sorted by how many notifications each app sends).
3. Tap Tinder in your set and choose how much to hide: Everything from this app, Hide only certain ones, or Let only certain ones through — then tick the kinds.
4. Switch hiding on — in the app, with the home-screen widget, or with the Quick Settings tile.
5. Read what was hidden in Notification Catcher. Tapping an entry opens Tinder.

Kinds appear once Tinder has used them. Android doesn’t let other apps read Tinder’s list of kinds in advance, so Removication learns each one from the first notification of that kind (until then it says “No kinds known yet”). If you want to be covered from the start, choose Let only certain ones through: everything is hidden — including kinds Removication hasn’t seen yet — except what you tick.

Three setups that work well

With Censor, Removication shows a neutral “1 new notification” with an envelope icon instead — no Tinder name, no sender, no text. By default it doesn’t appear on the lock screen, and tapping it leads nowhere.

With a time window, the set only works at certain times — for example on weekdays from 9 to 5.

What Removication can’t do

• A notification can flash up for a moment. Android delivers it first, Removication removes it right after.
• The censored stand-in says “Removication”. Android always names the app that posts a notification. If that’s too much, choose “Hide” instead of “Censor”.
• Calls always ring through, including internet calls — so an incoming call from a dating app may still show.
• Anyone who opens Removication can read the Catcher — unless you set the four-digit app lock (Premium).

For more on keeping dating apps private, see Dating app privacy on Android.

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