Viber Dating now allows users to hide their phone contacts, a feature that can help users avoid cringeworthy encounters while dating in 2025. The new Hide Contacts feature is designed to help users curate their dating pool and avoid encounters with familiar faces, such as long-time business partners or family members. This new feature is a step towards a safer and more enjoyable dating experience for users.
Here are some strange encounters that’ll make Hide Contacts a godsend:
- When the feed is starting to look like a family reunion. Seeing a cousin, an in-law, or any relative in your dating feed is nakakaloka! Family gatherings are awkward enough as they are, dating app run-ins would turn them into a full-blown cringe-fest. Imagine explaining that to your grandma.
- When potential matches eerily resemble your daily work approval queue. Office romances? Messy. Office breakups? HR nightmares. Throw in clients, suppliers, and contractors, and you’ll have a full-blown corporate scandal disguised as a love life. Hard pass.
- When opening your app takes you back to the past. Even if you and your ex are cool, dating their friend, particularly a close one, should be a no-go. Think about their hangouts! You’re one’s ex and the other’s new date all rolled into one! Dinner parties just got a whole lot more awkward.
- When regulars at your family events make it to your feed. Imagine matching with your sibling’s bestie like your brother’s childhood mate! Just no. For the sake of family harmony, skip this one. You don’t want your sibling to lose a friend over a disastrous dating app match.
It’s precisely these cringe-inducing scenarios that underscore Viber Dating’s keen understanding of what Filipinos truly desire in a dating app. It takes user control to the next level with the new Hide Contacts feature, offering even greater privacy and flexibility. With that, you can now hide profiles on discovery and flag numbers from your contact list.
So, how quick and easy is it to banish those deal-breakers from your match list?
- Head to your Profile Settings and tap “Hide Contacts”.
- Pick the contacts you want to hide from your contact list by tapping “Hide”.
- Got a specific name in mind? Use the search bar and hide them with a click.
- And, you’re ready to swipe with confidence!
Viber Dating will also launch a ‘Hide All Contacts’ feature soon, which will let you conveniently hide your entire contact list (as long as your contacts are less than a thousand!) in one go.
Soon, Viber Dating will go even further, giving you the ultimate power move: hiding entire groups and hiding unsaved contacts from chats, which will soon be available to all users. Yes, even those lurking in your family and work group chats! It is the first dating platform to give you this kind of power. Plus, you’re given total control, with the ability to continuously update your ‘do not match’ list as new group chat members pop up.
Launched first in the Philippines in February, Viber Dating provides Filipinos with a safe and private platform to find their match. Key features include hidden phone numbers, machine and human moderators, and a separate dating profile to keep dating activities private from main Viber connections.
And now with the latest Hide Contact feature that lets you dodge all those awkward online dating encounters, Viber Dating empowers you to find that safe and genuine connection you deserve on your terms. Sign up for Viber Dating today for free via https://vb.me/viberdating_hidecontactspr.
