With a desire to maintain your anonymity while using a dating app, you want to prevent your boss from coming across your dating profile.

Learning that your boss is actively using the same dating app you are on wasn’t welcome news.

Since then, you have been stuck on how to go about preventing him from coming across your dating profile.

One option is to make your dating profile private or set it to incognito mode.

This means that no one gets to see your dating profile save the people you send likes to, message, or swipe right on.

It’s a proactive approach to the umpteenth degree, that has you having to seek out potential matches through browsing through dating profiles, without the benefit of the dating app’s algorithm doing the work for you.

Preventing your boss from coming across your dating profile isn’t entirely eliminated by this next suggestion, but it mitigates it.

Basically, eschew using the dating app whenever he is on it.

As your boss, he is a creature of habit.

What boss isn’t?

He has days and times that he is usually logged into the dating app and actively using it.

Once you have an idea of what this time frame is, get into a pattern of not logging into the dating app whenever he is actively using it.

Many dating apps let you know whether someone is online or how long ago they were on the dating app.

Pay close attention to this over the coming week.

It elucidates the days and times he logs into his account.

A dating app’s algorithm has a proclivity to match people who are persistently logged in on the same days and times.

Once you know this, do everything in your power to circumvent using the dating app when he does.

This keeps the dating app’s algorithm from attempting to match the pair of you.

A third option is to set your dating profile to private or incognito mode, and take a look at your boss’s dating profile.

Look at everything he describes about himself and what he is looking for in a match.

Remove as many common interests between your dating profile and his.

Wherever you can get away with it, remove a common interest that mirrors his.

As long as it isn’t a pivotal interest that negatively affects your chances of matching with someone compatible with you, remove it.

The same thing applies to any areas where similarities are shared that you can afford to eliminate from your dating profile.

This has much to do with a dating app’s algorithm.

An algorithm matches dating profiles that have common interests and similarities.

Eliminating as many of these from your dating profile as you compare your dating profile to his, drastically reduces the odds that he comes across your dating profile.

A fourth option is that of membership tiers.

Several dating apps offer different membership tiers.

While set to private or incognito mode, take a look at what membership tier he is at.

Get yourself on a different membership tier.

Within your match parameters, stipulate that you strictly want to be matched with people who are on your tier.

This prevents your boss from coming across your dating profile, being that he is on a different tier.

For this strategy to work over time, set your dating profile to private or incognito mode, and check his dating profile every few weeks to confirm that he hasn’t upgraded his tier to the one that you are using.

Lastly, many dating apps have a “block profile” feature which lets you completely block a person’s dating profile without the person ever knowing that you did it nor who you are.

This last suggestion is as close as it gets to providing a zero chance that your boss ever comes across your dating profile.