Waiting for the right person to show up in your feed only works if the algorithm already knows exactly what you want. Search puts you back in control, letting you set your own criteria and go find people who fit, rather than hoping they find you. Want to go deeper than the basics? Advanced Search and Saved Search take it further.
Set your own criteria and go find who fits
Start with the essentials, age, location, and distance, to narrow things down to people who are realistically a fit for the life you're actually living. It's a faster way to find relevant profiles than scrolling and hoping the right person happens to appear.
When the basics aren't enough, filter further by lifestyle and background to zero in on what genuinely predicts compatibility for you. Instead of sifting through dozens of almost-right profiles, you go straight to the people who actually match your specific criteria.
Once a search is working well, save it so you can run it again without rebuilding your criteria every time you check in. On desktop, Mutual Search and Reverse Search go even further, surfacing people whose own stated preferences line up with yours too.
Recommendations are useful, but they're still a guess made on your behalf. Search flips that around: you decide what matters, age, location, distance, and go find the people who actually meet it, instead of waiting for the algorithm to catch up to what you already know.
When your situation is specific, a long-distance relationship you're open to, a background that matters to you, the basics aren't always enough. Advanced Search lets you filter by lifestyle and background, and Saved Search means you never have to rebuild a search that's already working for you.