Long before Tinder, singles put themselves onscreen for love. Leadership teams from both companies will now feel vindicated by their decisions to pursue a feature that at the time would have been deemed high-risk, with Bumble reporting a 21% increase in usage of its video chat feature since the outbreak. This sort of feature is much in demand amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced people to stay home and practice social distancing. That means setting up dates in less-crowded places (to gel with recommendations from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention), swapping face-to-face liaisons for sexy texts and cuffing a crush for a potentially lengthy quarantine.

Tinder is planning to add a video chat feature to its app to make online dating easier as the coronavirus pandemic keeps people indoors. Their photo verification feature is great, and much better than other dating apps like Tinder, OKC and Zoosk: you just need to send them the selfie photo with thumb-up gesture, proving that you look like the profile photo. Muzmatch, the worlds’ biggest dating app for Muslims, is also preparing to launch video and voice calling within the coming weeks. She downloaded Loko, a video dating app where people upload 15-second clips of themselves explaining who they are and why they’d make a good partner.

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