It’s a good idea to keep your photos constantly updated on dating apps.
So, don’t stick photos on your dating profile and leave them in perpetuity or indefinitely.
Constantly updating those photos bodes well for how the dating app’s algorithm looks at your dating profile.
The algorithm likes fresh photos and habitually puts dating profiles with photos that are constantly updated at the top of search and match results.
It’s a good thing for you too.
It keeps you honest.
When you are constantly updating your dating profile with new photos, you are keeping people updated on your life and lifestyle.
You are staying current with who you are and what you are about.
That being said, as far as how old or recent these photos should be comes down to your age and the type of photo.
When it is a photo that has your face as the focal point, your photos should be no more than three years old.
You have a little more leeway or flexibility with how old or recent your photos should be when you are below the age of 25.
Biologically, our faces start to show signs of aging from age 25 and up.
Fine lines and wrinkles start to show and as time goes on there is a loss of volume and elasticity to the face.
So, as a rule of thumb, if you are age 25 and above, use photos that aren’t any more than 3 years old.
No matter how good you think you look for your age or how much you have been told that you look ten years younger by your friends and relatives, stick to this rule.
Don’t post photos of your face that are more than 3 years old.
Now, a photo that has you as a focal point but isn’t focused on your face is a little different.
As long as your body hasn’t changed, you can get away with posting photos that are as long as 5 or 6 years old.
Again, this is a photo that isn’t focused on your face at all.
This is where you are involved in an activity where your face is out of focus and the activity is more in focus.
Again, your face is not that visible but your body and activity is.
Photos like this that are 5 to 6 years old are suitable as long as your body hasn’t changed at all.
This leads into the next type of photo.
The one where the terrain is the focal point and not you.
You are more of a silhouette than anything else.
Photos like this are fair game.
They can go back 10 years or more, as long as you are nothing more than a silhouette and the photo is primarily focused on the terrain.
All this being said, as I mentioned earlier, you are better off being in the habit of constantly updating your profile with fresh photos.
These are fresh photos that are primarily concerned with showing what you have been doing with your life recently.
This keeps dating prospects up-to-date on what you have been up to lately and makes the dating app algorithms happy.
Yes, this seems like what a social media maestro does with their social media posts, but no, you don’t have to be that obsessive with your photos.
Get into the habit of having your camera ready when you are out and about.
Take a photo or have someone nearby take one of you.
A basic photo is perfectly suitable.
You don’t need a professional photographer following you around.
Yes, this requires an adjustment to your daily routine, but you want to give yourself the best shot at sticking out on dating apps.
To do this, updating your photos constantly gives you an upper hand and sleighs the competition.