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What’s behind the decline of Tinder and other popular dating apps?

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A recent Forbes poll of dating app users showed that, on average, they spend about 51 minutes per day on them.

Tinder still holds the title for most commonly used dating app, its overall downloads have been dropping since 2020 .

Tinder has also seen a reduction in its paying users over the past two years , while monthly active user numbers have dipped in the past three quarters .

In 2018 , millennials spent 90 minutes a day on dating apps.

By last year , that number was down to nearly 56 minutes per day .

Tinder has taken the biggest hit, while apps like Hinge and Bumble have seen an increase in downloads.

The biggest shift isn't that people are leaving apps, it's that there are shifts in which ones are popular.

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62

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60

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78

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informal

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English

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35

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