Users can now be verified by uploading ID cards.

Tinder users are all too aware of the fact that many users have malicious intentions when hopping onto the popular dating app. One common occurrence is the reality of catfishing. This is when a user pretends to be someone else to earn the trust of their victims, often to ensure they form some sort of connection with them.

In a bid to curb the widespread incidents of catfishing on its app, Tinder has announced that it will be rolling out a new verification feature. With this update, as described by Tinder, will require users to prove they are who they say they are by providing government-issued IDs.

The feature has actually been live in Japan since 2019, but now it seems that the dating tech giant is finally ready to launch the functionality globally.

Tinder has said that it might take a few months to fully roll out the feature in all countries. This is largely due to the fact that every country has unique ways of identifying citizens. As such, they need to make small changes to their verification tool for every country it launches in.

“We know one of the most valuable things Tinder can do to make members feel safe is to give them more confidence that their matches are authentic and more control over who they interact with,” Rory Kozoll, head of Trust and Safety Product at Tinder said in a statement.

Users won’t be forced to upload identification, though. Tinder has explained that some users might not be comfortable with the idea of uploading personal information to an app. However, if it is required by law in a certain region that users must be verified, it will be mandatory to use the verification tool. Users that are verified will also receive some sort of badge which will indicate to other users that they are indeed who they say they are.

Recently, Tinder rolled out a bunch of new security features, like the ability to block certain users in their contact list, the ability to run background checks on US citizens and more resources to stop online abuse on its platform.