At Viber, we strive to help you make meaningful connections by suggesting profiles that align with your preferences and interests. Our matching algorithm considers several factors to enhance your dating experience while ensuring fairness and transparency. Below, we explain the key criteria used in our matching system.
The Main Factors in Our Matching Algorithm
- User Preferences & Interests
- Your selected preferences, including gender, age range, and relationship goals, help us identify potential matches that fit what you’re looking for.
- Optional profile details such as interests, hobbies, and lifestyle choices further refine recommendations.
- Profiling & Match Optimization
- Our matching algorithm uses profiling to analyse user preferences, interactions, and activity patterns. This allows us to improve match recommendations and enhance the overall user experience by suggesting profiles with a higher likelihood of compatibility.
- Location & Proximity
- We prioritize matches based on geographic distance, ensuring that suggested profiles are within a reasonable range for potential in-person interactions.
- Engagement & Activity
- To improve the likelihood of meaningful connections, our system prioritizes users who are active on the platform and regularly engage with profiles.
- Recent and frequent activity increases visibility in match recommendations.
- Interaction-Based Matching
- Our system learns from your interactions, including likes, dislikes, and engagement with other users, to refine future match suggestions.
- If you frequently match with users who share certain interests, our system may prioritize similar profiles.
What Our Algorithm Does Not Consider
We do not use factors such as ethnicity, political views or social status, nor your self-description in the bio, photos or dating chats, when generating match recommendations. Our goal is to foster an inclusive environment where users can connect based on shared interests and compatibility. You can also be confident that none of your general Viber account data, chats, nor your usage of Viber app features will in any manner be used by our dating algorithm.
How You Can Influence Your Matches
- Adjust your preferences at any time to refine the profiles suggested to you.
- Engage actively with profiles to help our system learn what works best for you.
- Location settings can be adjusted within the app to control how far your matches appear from your selected area.
- Utilize premium features (e.g. profile boosting, when available) to enhance your visibility.
For more details on privacy and data handling, please refer to our Privacy Policy.