It’s annoying.

A dating app you are using is constantly shuffling your profile pics.

To add insult to injury, it keeps shuffling to your worst pic.

There is nothing you are physically doing to cause this shuffling.

The dating app is doing the shuffling on its own volition.

Every time you see this, the idea that you have missed out on valuable matches while one of your not-so-good pictures was up as a profile pic barrels into your mind.

Being fairly new to online dating, this is an issue you weren’t anticipating.

Why does this shuffling keep happening without any prompting from you?

A dating app that is arbitrarily shuffling your profile pics is doing it during a site-wide update.

Unfortunately, it’s a technical glitch.

When the dating app is updated, there is a reshuffling of pics that affects a minority of dating profiles site-wide.

Your dating profile happens to be in that minority, and to make matters worse, it keeps resetting to your worst pic.

What bad luck.

Given the sheer volume of traffic on a dating app, frequent updating is an absolute must.

This keeps the dating app from crashing under the weight of that traffic.

The updates don’t shut down the dating app.

They occur while the dating app isn’t as active.

Have you ever wondered why you go to bed at night and your profile pic is what you want it to be, and you wake up and it has changed?

The early morning hours have the least traffic activity on a dating app.

Besides this, constant shuffling of your profile pic occurs when a dating app spots a profile pic that doesn’t meet their guidelines.

This is when the profile pic is either too racy or too inadequate.

A profile pic that is too racy speaks for itself.

There is too much indecent exposure.

A profile pic that is too inadequate is one that doesn’t meet the required parameters for what is considered to be a good profile pic.

This has to do with how clearly the face appears.

When it is too far from the camera or at an angle that impedes a full-on view, this is deemed inadequate for a profile pic.

A profile pic is the most scrutinized.

An inadequate profile pic can exist among the rest of your pictures, but it won’t be accepted as a main profile pic.

When a dating app deems that your profile pic isn’t adequate enough, it looks through the rest of your pics to see whether one of them meets their parameters.

Upon seeing one, the profile pic you originally posted is removed and replaced with a different picture within your collection it deems more adequate for a profile pic.

No matter how adequate you believe the original profile picture was, the dating app has a different opinion.

You never bothered to look at their picture guidelines before posting your pictures.

The guidelines are created for a reason.

Heed them and save yourself a lot of grief.