A phone call is a good screen before a first date.
Tinder’s safety tips call a phone or video call a useful screening tool before meeting. Take that call on a number you can burn.
A number for dating apps
Get a second phone number for dating that rings your real phone.
Keep chatting in the app. When you are ready to talk, give a match an ExpressNumber number instead of your own. Calls ring your phone, and if it goes nowhere, you burn the number.
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This is how you get a number to give a match.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Name it Dating, or after the app.
- Keep chatting in the app, and give a match the number when you are ready to talk.
- Calls ring your phone, and the match only sees the number you gave. Block or burn it in one tap if it goes nowhere.
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Your numbers
Dating
(646) 555-0139
Forwarding
Coffee date
(917) 555-0157
Texts only
Old match
(718) 555-0174
Blocked
People give a match a second number for three reasons.
A number is hard to take back.
Once a match has your real number, they keep it, however the date goes. A second number ends when you say so.
If it goes nowhere, so does the number.
Set it to Block and calls and texts to it stop. Or burn it in one tap, and your real number was never part of it.
How a call reaches you
The match gets your Dating number. Your phone gets the call.
A matchCalls the number you gave them, when you are both ready to talk.
Calls and texts
DatingYour number for matches.
Forwards
Your real phone ringsLike any other call
Texts land in your inboxUnder the name Dating
The caller only ever sees the number you gave them.
Block or burn the number if it goes nowhere.
Chat in the app first, give the number when you are ready to talk, and end it whenever you like.
- 1You matchAnd keep chatting in the app
- 2Ready to talkYou give the match your Dating number
- 3The callYour phone rings like any other call
- 4It goes nowhereBlock it, or burn it in one tap
This is what the dating apps and the FTC say about sharing your number.
Read October 15, 2026, with a link to each page.
Tinder says to stay on the platform at first.
Its safety tips say to keep conversations on Tinder while you get to know someone, because people with bad intentions often try to move to text, messaging apps, email or phone straight away.
Tinder: Safety tipsTinder calls a phone call a useful screen.
The same page says a phone or video call can be a useful screening tool before meeting.
Tinder: Safety tipsBumble has calls inside the app.
Bumble offers Video Chat and Voice Call inside the app, so you can meet people without sharing your phone number or email before you are ready.
Bumble: What You Need to Know About Safety on BumbleBumble says to keep private details to yourself at first.
Its safety tips say not to give out private information about yourself, like your home or office address, right away.
Bumble: What You Need to Know About Safety on BumbleRomance scam losses reported to the FTC rose 22% in 2025.
The FTC’s advice: do not send money to someone you have never met in person.
FTC consumer alert: New trends in reports of imposter scams, May 7, 2026
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People ask these questions about a number for dating.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard and name it Dating. It is live in about a minute. Give it to a match when you are ready to talk. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and the caller only ever sees the number you gave them.
No. The call is forwarded to your phone, and the caller only ever sees the number you gave them.
Set the number to Block and calls and texts to it stop. Or burn it in one tap: it stops for good, and you cannot get that number back.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the inbox.
Yes. Every number has three modes: Forward rings your phone and lets texts in, Texts only stops calls and keeps the texts coming, and Block stops both. You change the mode from your dashboard.
More ways to use a number
Every rule on this page comes from a public page you can check.
Each one is linked where it is quoted, and all of them were read October 15, 2026.
Give a match a number you can burn.
Hand out a number you can burn. Keep the one your family calls.
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