Face Recognition Is Becoming the Norm for Dating Apps

In 2025, AI-generated deepfakes and voice-cloned scams made Tinder allocate 98% of its moderation to fake accounts, leading to a mandatory facial-verification system, Face Check, for new US and UK users. Over a dozen dating apps now require biometric authentication—liveness checks, 3D scans, video selfies, or iris-scanning devices such as World ID—to address a $4 billion U.S. romance-scam loss, while critics note that storing encrypted facial or iris data raises privacy and security concerns.